Category: Irish Author
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Cover Reveal: The Great Forest
It’s finally here! I’m very excited to reveal the cover for book three in The Lucky Diamond trilogy. I hope you like it! Here it is: Cover art by Phan Duy. The Great Forest will be published on 21st June. You can pre-order the ebook here for a special price of .99 ($/£/€). To celebrate…
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Book Review: The Chestnut Roaster
From the publisher: Who can catch a memory thief? ‘ An unforgettable adventure ‘ THE TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK. “Starting on All Fools Day, twelve years ago, I remember everything. EVERYTHING. That was a wet Saturday, and that was the day I was born.” 12-year-old Piaf has the ability to (and burden of) remembering…
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Exciting news on Revenge of Queen Rose
I am currently in self-imposed social media hibernation so I can complete the edit of my third book (hard deadline looming!), but I am really happy to emerge for a few minutes to announce that Revenge of Queen Rose (book 2 in The Lucky Diamond trilogy) has been selected as a finalist in the 9-12…
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Happy New Year & Classic Irish Childrens Fiction
Happy New Year! Yes, another year has arrived! Although I am not happy with how quickly 2022 came and left us (seriously, how did that happen so fast?), I am pleased with how my writing year went. My second book was published, I gave writing classes for kids, I did school visits, I was interviewed…
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Book Review: Sky Born
This week, TOTP and Knitted TOTP take a look as SkyBorn by Sinead O’Hart. From the blurb: The circus has seen better days, but for Bastjan it’s home. He will do anything he can to save it, even if it means participating in a death-defying new act. But when that fails to draw in the…
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Book Review: Knights of the Borrowed Dark
Recently I was at an event in the Museum of Literature Ireland hosted by author Dave Rudden, so naturally I picked up a copy of his middle grade series, the Knights of the Borrowed Dark. The son of a friend of mine loved the first book in the trilogy so much he lent me his…
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