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…
Andrew Meehan
In his twenties, Andrew worked as a TV researcher in Scotland, then, returning to Ireland, he worked in script development for a company led by Ed Guiney and David Collins. Then he became head of development…
Felicia Yap
Brought up in Kuala Lumpur, Felicia has always liked the idea of writing; but she didn’t know what to write about. After her primary degree, she worked in a lab in Germany, as a radioactive cell…
Caroline Foran
Caroline’s wanted to be a radio producer, but when she left college in 2009, jobs were scarce. After studying for a Masters, she realised she had a talent for writing. She joined entertainment.ie at intern level,…
Adele O’Neill
From a family of avid readers, Adele used to choose library book for her parents and grandparents. “Reading the blurbs in order to choose the right books was really useful when it came to writing my…