Beginner’s pluck: Full-time writer Shane Tivenan

The compassionate stories in this collection examine outsiders — showing interactions between the ‘lost’ and the ‘normal’ world

Author Shane Tivenan has won the RTÉ Francis McManus Award and the John McGahern Award.

A quiet child who liked his own company, Shane was a reader until aged 10 when he acquired his first computer console.

“Then reading went out of the window,” he says.