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Sue Divin: ‘Character, voice, plot, pace, authenticity – if a writer nails that, I’ll read their novel’
Author Sue Divin, who has a master’s in peace and conflict studies, helps to build peace at work and in fiction
Sarah Crossan: ‘Meeting amazing teenagers was a highlight of being Laureate na nÓg’
Author’s new novel Gone for Good is one of three verse thrillers and is based in the Adirondack mountains
Sarah Crossan: ‘I wanted to write about abuse and love and how those things intersect’
Author Sarah Crossan on her pivot from teaching to writing and her latest books on forbidden love affairs and sex dolls
Laureate na nÓg Patricia Forde: ‘I get such a buzz from hearing these five-year-olds, totally fluent, even when there’s not a word of Irish at home’
Growing up in Galway city, the author would look out of her bedroom window and imagine events that took place there in the past. ‘It was like a kind of time travel’ that shaped her imagination, she says
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