Karen Perry
When the poet, and short-story writer Paul Perry suggested that he and his friend Karen Gillece should write a novel together, Karen was sceptical. The novelist of four successful books was busy working on a fifth….
Nicole Krauss
It’s been seven years since Nicole Krauss last produced a novel. Her publishers have made much of this in their publicity for her new novel, Forest Dark, but the 43-year-old, recognised both by Granta and The…
John Cuffe
John credits a trio of brilliant teachers for sparking his lifelong interest in history and English. “And my mother was a great reader; she encouraged me.” Before he entered the prison service, John trained as a…
Emma Viskic
Writing is Emma’s first love, but she works as a classical clarinettist. For twenty years she performed in orchestras, and chamber music, playing anything from opera to Phantom of the Opera, from arena concerts with Jose…
Debut Roundup November and December, 2017.
PUBLISHED BY BOOKS IRELAND S.A. Dunphy. After She Vanished. Hachette Books Ireland. David Dunnigan is a mess. A criminology lecturer at Maynooth University, he also works as a consultant for the Garda special investigations unit in…
John Banville
When John Banville first read A Portrait of a Lady, he fell in love. In his twenties at the time, mesmerised by James’s genius, he was enchanted by the style, innovation and restraint. But most of…
Ken Follett
When Ken Follett left University College London in 1970, he had three choices of career. He’d been offered jobs by the consumer goods giant Unilever; by ICL, which was then considered the British equivalent of IBM;…
Nicola Cassidy
Nicola read and wrote a lot as a child, because there was nothing else to do. After working in magazine journalism, she moved into PR, and worked in the Green Party Press Office. “I was there…
Stephen Norman
Stephen worked for a start-up in Silicon Valley, and then in London. He turned it into a software company, ran it for 10 years, then sold it. “Then a friend, head of IT in a French…
Emer McLysaght
Brought up near Kill, County Kildare, Emer worked in Phantom Radio until 2010, then, after a few months in Spain, she became a news reporter on the Journal.ie. “I moved into the entertainment section, Daily Edge,…
Susan Ryan
Loving stories, Susan was always sure that she would write, one day. Meanwhile, she travelled, working on Paros in Greece, before moving to Germany, and then Australia. “I had crazy jobs there. I managed a cemetery…
Nikki Hayes
When Nikki was young, her mum bought a receiver for world radio. “I listened to everything, and became fascinated,” says Nikki. “You could imagine what the people behind the voices looked like. They could be anything…