From an editing career in Harper Collins to best-selling debut author, mother of three Alison Walsh tells Sue Leonard that the path to success in writing can be a long road working from the bottom up.

Reimagining the role of Irish women in the 1916 Rising opened several doors for Henrietta McKervey and helped her to develop her writing which has won her numerous prizes, writes Sue Leonard.            

A book by RTÉ’s Joe Duffy on the children who died during the 1916 Easter Rising will be published later this year.

Still got a pressie to buy or are you expecting some vouchers on Christmas Day? Richard Fitzpatrick picks the best book of the year in 10 different genres

Clodagh Murphy

The End is Nigh For Paperbacks. It could be the title of another novel by Irish crime writer John Connolly.

Thrillers

There’s a ‘new man in my life’.

I’m delighted at the success of my book Staring at Lakes, but I have to admit I’m surprised by it.

Even when she became a comedienne, Maeve Higgins didn’t write.

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Ghost Town

Muriel Bolger