[ About Tatá ] When Agnes hears from the local police her Aunt Colette has died, she can’t believe her ears. Her father’s sister Colette, her Tatá, died three years ago and has been resting in peace in the cemetery of Gueugnon. Agnes is called to identify the body: there is no doubt, it’s Aunt…
On this week’s Writer Smarter Blog I am delighted to welcome Sarah Bourne, the author of five novels of contemporary domestic drama and two of historical (WW2) fiction. Sarah was born and brought up in London but, after wandering the world for several years, settled in Sydney where she raised her family. She is a…
The Coast of Everything by Irish writer Guillermo Stitch publishes today June 16th with Sagging Meniscus Press. It is described as ‘a decade in the making, the much anticipated follow-up to Guillermo Stitch’s debut novel, Lake of Urine.’ Stitch is the executive editor of Exacting Clam, the quarterly sister publication of Sagging Meniscus. Matryoshka dolls and James Joyce were…
[ About the Book ] In the cold winter of 1944, Sr Kate McCarthy – Irish nun and French Resistance leader – arrives at the gates of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for women. She has endured four years of horrendous suffering in various prisons, still having the courage to resist the Nazi regime, a journey that…
On this week’s Write Smarter Blog, I am delighted to welcome author Kerry Manning, who at 61 years old published her first book, Learning to Love Lucy and then six months later, the sequel, Rose has a Right to Happiness. Kerry suffers from chronic illness. She has a number of autoimmune diseases which severely limit how much…
[ About Liar Liar ] Once hailed as Liverpool’s finest detective, Mark Fletcher brought a serial killer to justice and earned the city’s admiration. But when he’s accused of working with Liverpool’s most notorious crime family, his legacy is shattered – and so is his life. Now disgraced and spiralling, Fletcher wakes up in a…
[ About Land ] On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not…
On this week’s Write Smarter Blog, I am delighted to welcome Dublin-based writer Gill Perdue. Gill worked as a primary school teacher for fifteen years and published four children’s books. She is the bestselling author of the unflinching and psychologically rich Shaw & Darmody crime series published by Penguin. Gill’s first standalone thriller, All Of Them Lied, will…
[ About This is Also a Love Story by Sally Hayden ] We live in an era defined by crisis – whether it be war and displacement, or climate collapse and rapidly widening inequality. Acclaimed international correspondent Sally Hayden has spent her career covering some of the darkest moments of our time, and yet even…
[ About The Hope Keeper ] 1919, Washington D.C. Elisabeth Beaumont comes from a renowned jeweler family, but after the untimely death of her twin brother, she’s left on her own to run the failing family business. Desperate for work, she approaches the affluent crowd her brother Julien once courted to expand Beaumont Jewelers. Their ringleader…