Culture That Made Me: Donnybrook author Liz Nugent picks her touchstones

Nugent includes Enid Blyton, Reader's Digest and Maeve Binchy among her selections, and describes a real-life encounter with a murderer

Liz Nugent's latest novel is The Truth About Ruby Cooper. Picture: Darragh Kane

Sat, 30 May, 2026 - 21:00

Richard Fitzpatrick

Born in 1967, Liz Nugent grew up in Donnybrook, Dublin. In the 1990s, she travelled the world as a stage manager for Riverdance. From 2003 until 2013, she worked as a story associate on Fair City. In 2014, she published her debut novel, Unravelling Oliver, a psychological thriller which won an Irish Book Award, the first of five national book awards. Other crime fiction prizes followed. Her latest novel, The Truth About Ruby Cooper, is published by Sandycove.

Enid Blyton