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Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards, ER Murray is the author of the One Book One City Dublin City Read The Book of Learning, the first in her Nine Lives Trilogy. ? Elizabeth Rose Murray, represented by Sallyanne Sweeney of Mulcahy…

International bestseller Carmel Harrington writes issue-driven popular fiction and is the author of Cold Feet The Lost Years, which accompanies the ITV series. Carmel's uplifting and inspiring books have all been regular chart-toppers,…

On this episode of Behind the Bestseller Sam Blake chats to Alex Barclay. Research is one of the keys to Alex Barclay’s incredible success, with ideas developing from chance conversations with experts. Sam Blake quizzes her on her unique…

Being taken on by a high profile literary agency should have been the start of Hazel Gaynor's career, but unfortunately they couldn’t place her Titanic novel The Girl Who Came Home. With the Titanic anniversary rapidly approaching, Hazel…

Romance is the biggest selling genre worldwide and award winning author Ruth Long, in all her various incarnations as RF Long, Ruth Francis Long and Jessica Thorne, writes romance combined with fantasy - from parallel worlds to sci-fi space…

From her life as a journalist in Northern Ireland to her first women's fiction book, Claire Allan's publishing journey was punctuated by key life events. In Behind the Bestseller she reveals what made her take that first step into fiction…

Behind the Bestseller: what makes a book a success? Bestselling author Sam Blake talks to authors, editors, publicists and agents to find out exactly what that magic ingredient is. You can check out Sam's other podcast Murder One:…

The debut novel from Anne Griffin, When All is Said is rightly getting praise from authors, reviewers and the public for its depiction of Maurice Hannigan, a fictional character that you come to deeply know and relate to through reading the…

‘When I sit down to write, I’m pursuing an ideal of total freedom.’ Rob Doyle talks to WriteStuff about his novel Here Are the Young Men, his story collection This is the Ritual, his forthcoming novel and an anthology of experimental…

The always engaging Michael Harding reads from his latest book ‘On Tuesdays I’m a Buddhist’ and goes on to talk to WriteStuff about the importance of storytelling and his experiences of therapy, both of which are central themes of the book.…