“I cannot imagine anyone with as open and tactful an intelligence as Sue Leonard.”
— Man Booker Prize Winner and Ireland’s inaugural Laureate for Irish fiction, Anne Enright, at the launch of An Act of Love.
Interviewed by Sue Leonard. 1,300 words. ‘It’s a universal fact that women’s lives conformed to other people’s needs, while the lives of men ploughed straight through them, like a motorway tunnel.’ This sentence, appearing in […]
Dermot lived in County Cork until he was nine, when the family moved to Kildare. An only child, he was a voracious reader. “I never thought of being a writer,” he says, “but I loved writing […]
News of writer Jilly Cooper’s sudden death after a fall earlier this week, came as a terribly shock. At 88, still effervescent, she’d had a pretty good year. 2024 saw her made a Dame of the […]