Back in the distant mists of time, Alex spent three years at art college in Maidstone, a college that David Hockney once taught at and later described in a piece for The Sunday Times as the ‘most ...

Welcome to the Irish bestselling books charts. While The Truth About Ruby Cooper continues to run away at the top of the charts with stellar sales figures, everything else is settling down to ...

Competition deadline 15th May 2026 The RTÉ Short Story Competition s now open for entries! The 2026 RTÉ Short Story Competition in honour of Francis MacManus, one of Ireland’s longest ...

The dresser was like a treasure chest standing regally against the kitchen gable wall; the minute you entered the kitchen your eyes were drawn to it. It was a story book, each shelf a chapter, ...

I’ve written three novels from the perspective of spies. In these books we get inside the spies’ heads, and we see normal people at a kind of distance – as if spies are separate from our ...

How to Write a Sports Romance Sports Romance is currently one of the most rapidly growing genres, with even more niche sports finding their place in books on shelves. From writing two of my own F1 ...

The Ten-Step Guide to Helping Kids Take Charge of Anxiety. There’s a particular kind of pressure that comes with writing a book when you have a ...

Eason Research Reveals 80% of Families Are Moderate or Avid Readers, Even Amid Digital Distractions. Eason-commissioned ...

What Actually Happens When a Writer Decides to Apply for Funding. Day by Day. Spreadsheet by Spreadsheet. There is a version of this story where I sat down at my desk in early March, opened the ...

A novella is not an incomplete novel, it is a separate art form with its own specific demands. When my editor Delphine read my debut Six Mile ...

When it comes to writing I always think about the quote: “is it better to speak or to die?“. I was shy at first, writing in secret and not telling anyone. Ashamed of my thoughts. “What if no ...