There are many poignant moments, but the main character’s inner monologue is often scathingly funny

Danielle McLaughlin’s new novel is inspired by her friend Siobhán Rea’s ritual of daily drawings

To buy time to write a novel, Caitríona Lally worked in the housekeeping department at Trinity College Dublin, where she had once been a student

A desire to ‘rip into a subject that has sat like a succubus on me’ inspired writer’s first novel since 2014

The writer on literary reputation, emigration and ‘the crushing weight of being the only gay in the village’

The award-winning US author ‘refused to write historically’, but Kin, her new novel, is set in the 1960s. She explains why

Author’s new novel Gone for Good is one of three verse thrillers and is based in the Adirondack mountains

As her latest novel is published, the acclaimed Irish author has turned her attention to non-fiction, still writing ‘what obsesses, consumes and distresses’ her

Author’s new novel, The Woman in the Water, is inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca

Banshee is a new collection of stories by contemporary women authors that retell Ireland’s myths and legends through a feminist lens

The great short-story writer’s female protagonists often do the opposite of what they intend. Being unmoored by loss affects their every thought

Prior to streaming, the trailer for Amazon Prime’s adaptation of Ryan Howard’s novel 56 Days had more than 78m views. It’s a ‘fever dream’ for her

Now three books in, as she says, the author and journalist spent many years as a ‘shadow artist’, circling the thing she loved

The author on new book The Killing Time, writing ‘kick-ass older women’, and her fascination with Victorian times

The Australian author on her piercing coming-of-age novel Chosen family, nonbiological family bonds, and teenage queer identity

The author on her debut novel Lost Lambs, tech billionaires, and the worst things about London

Her dour, unflinching portraits of women doing their level best not to lose any part of themselves reek of real life

Journalist’s debut novel is being pitched as Baby Reindeer from the stalker’s perspective

The author on her new Christmas novel; her hopes of it becoming a Hallmark movie; and her belief in fate

In 1930 the detective novelist was commissioned to set a treasure hunt on the island enticing tourists to visit