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Colm Tóibín: ‘I am much less sociable now, as I don’t drink any more’
07 Sep 2025 04:47 GMT
… be Tóibín’s masterpiece – his novels The Heather Blazing, The Master … contempt for plot of the author and New Yorker magazine editor … Variations on a Theme in Maeve Binchy.” She could pull off a … his agent Peter Straus to publish books and authors who they felt …
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Clare Mackintosh: ‘I re-read Maeve Binchy when I’m feeling glum. She wrote with such warmth it’s like getting a hug from a book’
06 Mar 2025 17:28 GMT
Clare Mackintosh is a former police inspector and the award-winning author of seven bestselling novels. Her books have sold more than three million copies and are translated into 40 languages. Other People’s Houses, the third book in her DC Ffion Morgan …
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Elaine Feeney on her new novel: ‘I was pushing a sort of Chekhov dinner party in the west of Ireland’
01 Jun 2025 04:24 GMT
… branded tote from her “lovely publishers” and the exuberance of someone … of talking about her Booker Prize-longlisted second novel, How to Build … in the 1995 adaptation of Maeve Binchy’s A Circle of Friends … want them all to have publishing deals,” she says of …
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Page Turners: ‘Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way’ author Elaine Feeney
30 May 2025 05:17 GMT
… for Irish Novel of the Year, longlisted for the Booker Prize, … about your journey to getting published.
I’ve loved stories … writers like Edna O’Brien, Maeve Binchy, and Rita Ann Higgins … and, of course, other books. For this novel, I was especially inspired …
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Book Locales That Draw You In and Make You Feel at Home
17 May 2025 00:23 GMT
… travel by book, including a wonderful Tall Poppy Writers author who understands … I know.
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
While not a series in … of Simple: A Novel (The Peachtree Bluff Series Book 1) by … about my new stand-alone novel publishing in November and wish I …
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Writer’s Block: An Interview with Author Patricia Scanlon
20 Apr 2025 08:01 GMT
… novel, “Would you ever sit down and start your new book … do book tours around the UK, be flown first-class to publishing … Malta, Spain, Amsterdam, and have publishing parties in the Ritz, dine … felt I was dreaming. Meeting Maeve Binchy, and having her give me …
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Maeve Binchy's childhood home where she experienced 'great joy' hits market for €1.2m
06 Dec 2024 11:31 GMT
"The Circle Of Friends" author passed away in 2012 after a short illness at the age of 72. She grew up in the house in Glenageary as the eldest of the four Binchy children and went on to become one of Ireland's most popular and best-selling …
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New crime novel that has everyone talking is set in Laois
06 Apr 2025 15:57 GMT
… has recently released her seventh novel, ‘There Came A-Tapping’, … locations.
Ms Carter’s books have been published across the world, … adults,” Ms Carter said.
Author Andrea Carter and Host Claire … Times for an anthology, and Maeve Binchy was at the launch.
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Culture That Made Me: Rachael English on Springsteen, Maeve Binchy, and Spotlight
29 Sep 2024 20:05 GMT
… . Her seventh novel Whatever Happened to Birdy Troy? is published by Hachette … read stories of Irish women.
Maeve Binchy. Picture: MaxpicsEspecially in the case … were part of the book.
Anne Tyler The author I discovered when …
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Maeve Binchy Literary Festival to celebrate her life and work in Dalkey next week
26 Sep 2024 11:47 GMT
… Friday, there’s a ‘Maeve Binchy Double Bill’ at 7.30pm … novels start with a domestic setting.
Best-selling author … Internationally loved author Cecelia Ahern talks to author and journalist … “as they fall.”
Acclaimed author, comedian, broadcaster and obsessive …