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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 Associat
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, and
Jane Casey is one of the strongest voices and most successful voices in Irish crime fiction - living in London but Irish to the core, she straddles both countries perfectly, bringing a gritty realism and authenticity to her character DS Maeve K
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 process, character building and how she tackled her first stand alone. Finding o
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 decide
Non-fiction is a different beast to fiction, and in this episode Sam Blake chats to Darach Ó Séaghdha, the Irish writer, podcaster and Irish language activist. The author of Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language (Head of Zeus, 2
From piling up the rejection slips Sinéad Moriarty joined a writers group and wrote the book that was closest to her heart. Drawing on her personal experience The Baby Trail immediately hit the bestseller list and kickstarted a career that is s
In a double length episode Sam Blake quizzes Literary Agent Sallyanne Sweeney from MMB Creative on what she looks for in a new manuscript and how she wades through often 300 submissions a week. Sallyanne answers the age old question of what age
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 ope
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 and h
From critically acclaimed non fiction that has spawned a movie in production, to beselling fiction, and now an exciting audio adventure, Shane Dunphy's career started with a book he needed to write. In this episode of Behind the Besteller Sam B
Catherine Ryan Howard is an internationally bestselling crime writer from Cork. Her debut thriller, Distress Signals (2016) was an Irish Times and USA Today bestseller. It was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger and the Bo
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.
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