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Showing posts with label Liz Nugent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liz Nugent. Show all posts

Monday, October 14, 2019

3 Must Reads Before you Die!

An Event not to be missed...
CRIMEHAWKS at MURDER ONE FESTIVAL
Date: November 3rd
This will be a cracker of an event, so do BOOK EARLY
3 MUST READS before you DIE...with myself, and the almightly forces of Catherine Ryan Howard, Liz Nugent and Rick O'Shea!
You can book tickets below! And do check out all the other great events happening as part of Murder One!

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Crimehawks at Murder One Festival!!



CRIMEHAWKS at MURDER ONE FESTIVAL
November 3rd
This will be a cracker of an event, so do BOOK EARLY
3 MUST READS before you DIE
With myself, and the almightly forces of Catherine Ryan Howard, Liz Nugent and Rick O'Shea!

GET TICKETS HERE

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Liz Nugent Wins Double at An Post Irish Book Awards!

This year's Irish Book Awards ceremony on the 27th November In the Clayton Hotel was the glitzy culmination of the first year of An Post as the award sponsors, and if the first year is anything to go by, the sponsorship will be a very positive one indeed. I was lucky to be there on the night, and it was one of the best awards nights I have ever attended.

Also notable on the night, were the many female winners of awards. This shouldn't be unusual, after all, there are a lot of us around, and certainly the Irish Crime Fiction Award has reflected this trend for the last few years. But all in all it was a great night in the celebration of Irish writing which is alive and very much kicking!

Liz Nugent, picked up two awards on the night for her latest novel SKIN DEEP. The first for Best Irish Crime Novel of the Year, and the second, for the Ryan Tubridy Listeners Choice Award. If you want to find a positive writing community, then look no further than the Irish Crime Writing scene, with Liz being a really popular and gracious winner on the night. The standard this year in the Irish crime writing section was phenomenal, and of the six books shortlisted in the Ryan Tubridy Listeners Choice, four were crime novels. Another reflection of how popular crime writing continues to be.

You can see the Awards Night on RTE on Thursday the 29th November, or catch it on RTE Real Player.

So, all that is left are some pics from the night to give you a flavour of the atmosphere and glamour!! 

All images copyright writing.ie and Ger Holland Photography

Pic:1 Liz Nugent Winner of Best Irish Crime Novel and RTE Ryan Tubridy Listener Choice Award
Pic:2 Irish Crime Writer Jo Spain nominated in Best Irish Crime Novel of the Year
Pic:3 Emilie Pine Winner of Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year for Notes to Self
Pic:4 Andrea Mara nominated in Best Irish Crime Novel of the Year & Patricia Gibney nominated in RTE Ryan Tubridy Listeners Choice Award
Pic:5 Keelin Shanley and Evelyn O Rourke presenters for the awards
Pic:6 Short story award presented by Vanessa O Loughlin of writing.ie to Roisin O Donnell for her winning story How to Build a Space Rocket
Pic:7 Myself, (aka Louise Phillips crime fiction author) Marie Brennan and Niamh Brennan crime author
Pic:10 Sally Rooney - Winner of Easons Book Club Novel of the Year for Normal People
Pic:11 Alex Barclay Irish Crime Author
Pic:12 Cathy Kelly paying tribute to the late Emma Hannigan AN POST Special Award Winner


Friday, July 29, 2016

TROUBLE IS OUR BUSINESS!!!


The diversity and quality of Irish Crime Fiction writing is in no doubt, and this new anthology TROUBLE IS OUR BUSINESS from NEW ISLAND, edited by award-winning crime writer DECLAN BURKE, will be a MUST READ!

I am really delighted to have a story within the collection. It is dark, it is dangerous and it is poignant, and I can't wait to read these new stories by Irish crime writers! Roll on September publication!!! Loving the cover too!

See details below:

Selected and edited by award-winning crime writer Declan Burke, TROUBLE IS OUR BUSINESS showcases the absolute best in Irish crime writing today. From originators like Patrick McGinley and Ruth Dudley Edwards to global crime megastars like John Connolly and Eoin Colfer, there can be no doubt as to the serious quality of Irish crime writing in the twenty-first century. An absolute must-have for crime lovers! Featuring stories by: Patrick McGinley, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Colin Bateman, Eoin McNamee, Ken Bruen, Paul Charles, Julie Parsons, John Connolly, Alan Glynn, Adrian McKinty, Arlene Hunt, Alex Barclay, Gene Kerrigan, Eoin Colfer, Declan Hughes, Cora Harrison, Brian McGilloway, Stuart Neville, Jane Casey, Niamh O'Connor,William Ryan, Louise Phillips, Sinead Crowley and Liz Nugent.

TROUBLE IS OUR BUSINESS will be published on September 30th.

Friday, July 8, 2016

A Feast of Irish Crime Novels for June & July 2016!

PARADIME by Alan Glynn – June 2016
Paradime
After a stint as a private contractor in Afghanistan, Danny Lynch is back in New York. But nothing's easy. Work is hard to find and his girlfriend owes more than $30,000 in student loans. Danny is also haunted by something he witnessed at the base - a fact that could ultimately destroy him.
Then he spots Teddy Trager, tech visionary and billionaire. These two men couldn't be more different - except for one thing: in appearance, they're identical.
Danny becomes obsessed with Trager, and before long this member of the ninety-nine per cent is passing undetected into the gilded realm of the one per cent. But what does Danny find there? Who does he become? And is there a route home?
From the prize winning author of Limitless, Paradime is a novel for fans of the great '70s conspiracy thrillers, rebooted for today's ever-globalising world.


GIRL UNKNOWN by Karen Perry - June 2016
Girl Unknown
When Zoe Barry walks into Professor David Connolly's office and announces that she is his daughter, he is left reeling. Suddenly his family - imperfect, flawed, but working - is trying to find space for someone new.

But Zoe's stories don't quite add up and lies become indistinguishable from truths. The family struggle to make sense of whether she is a sister, a daughter, a friend, an enemy. But no one could have expected where it all might end.

Because they have let into their home a girl that they do not know. And now everything they have built has begun to violently, determinedly, break apart.

TREACHEROUS STRAND by Andrea Carter -June 2016
Treacherous Strand
A woman's body washes up on a remote beach on the Inishowen peninsula. Partially-clothed, with a strange tattoo on her thigh, she is identified as Marguerite Etienne, a French woman who has been living in the area.
Solicitor Benedicta 'Ben' O'Keeffe is consumed by guilt; Marguerite was her client, and for the second time in her life, Ben has failed someone who needed her, with tragic consequences. So when local Sergeant Tom Molloy dismisses Marguerite's death as the suicide of a disturbed and lonely woman, Ben cannot let it lie.


THEY ALL FALL DOWN by Cat Hogan - July 1st 2016
They all Fall down
Jen Harper likes to play it safe. She is settling into life on the outskirts of a sleepy fishing village with her little boy, Danny. Life by the sea – just how she wanted it.

When she meets Andy, she feels the time has come to put her baggage and the scars of the past behind her. Then she is introduced to Scott, Andy’s best friend, and is stung by his obvious disdain for her. Why is Scott so protective of his best friend? What is the dark secret that threatens all of them?

In her attempt to find answers, Jen must confront her demons and push her relationships to their limits. By digging up the past, she puts Danny and herself in danger. Will she succeed in uncovering the truth before they all fall down?

Raw and energetic, They All Fall Down is a fast-paced and addictive novel exploring the depths of flawed human nature, the thin line between love and obsession and the destructive nature of addiction.


SO SAY THE FALLEN by Stuart Neville - July 7th 2016
So Say the Fallen
When DCI Serena Flanagan is asked to sign off the suicide of a severely disabled local businessman, she finds herself envying the grieving widow's comfortable life and devoted marriage, until the widow's close relationship with the local rector starts to sound an alarm. But with a clean crime scene and no evidence to back her up, have Serena's instincts led her down the wrong path?
With her husband struggling to deal with the aftermath of an attack that nearly cost him his life, and her young children anxious and unhappy, Serena's determination to unlock the mystery of what happened in that house may cost her her job - and her family.


LYING IN WAIT by Liz Nugent - July 14th
Lying in Wait
'My husband did not mean to kill Annie Doyle, but the lying tramp deserved it.'
Lydia Fitzsimons lives in the perfect house with her adoring husband and beloved son. There is just one thing Lydia yearns for to make her perfect life complete, though the last thing she expects is that pursuing it will lead to murder. However, needs must - because nothing can stop this mother from getting what she wants ...

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Ten Top Irish Mysteries - Strand Magazine....

Thank you STRAND MAGAZINE - Ten Top Irish Mysteries for St Patrick's Weekend, including review of The Doll's House.



" A fast paced novel with a steady ratcheting of suspense and an unexpected, satisfying ending..." 

Full feature here http://buff.ly/1ViKcpd with Benjamin Black, Declan Burke, Jane Casey, Liz Nugent, Sinead Crowley and Tana French....

Thursday, March 10, 2016

A taste of Irish Crime Fiction 2016!

There was a terrific Book Event with Penguin Ireland at 37 Dawson Street this month. The idea behind the evening was for authors with novels coming out this year, to connect with book bloggers. I saw many familiar faces there, and it was terrific to be in a room with writers and book lovers.

I caught up with three Irish Crime Writers, all female, and two of which are debut novelists. The first, was Vanessa Rohan, the second, was Bernice Barrington, and the third is an author well known to many of you, Liz Nugent, author of Unravelling Oliver.

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All of the upcoming novels sound great, and I can't wait to get stuck into reading them. So here's a taster for you all.....


The Last Days of Summer - Vanessa Rohan, 5th May 2016

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She can forgive. They can't forget.

After ten years in the Huntsville State Penitentiary, Jasper Curtis returns home to live with his sister and her two daughters. Lizzie does not know who she's letting into her home: the brother she grew up loving or the monster he became.
Teenage Katie distrusts this strange man in their home but eleven-year-old Joanne is just intrigued by her new uncle.
Jasper says he's all done with trouble, but in a forgotten prairie town that knows no forgiveness, it does not take long for trouble to arrive at their door ...



Sisters and Lies - Bernice Barrington - 24th March 2016

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One hot August night, Rachel Darcy gets the call everyone fears. It's the police. Her younger sister Evie's had a car crash, she's in a coma. Can Rachel fly to London right away?
With Evie injured and comatose, Rachel is left to pick up the pieces of her sister's life. But it's hard fitting them together, especially when she really doesn't like what she sees.
Why was Evie driving when she doesn't even own a licence?

Who is the man living in her flat and claiming Evie is his girlfriend?

How come she has never heard of him?

The more mysteries Rachel uncovers the more she starts asking herself how well she ever really knew her sister. And then she begins to wonder if the crash was really the accident everybody says it is.

Back in hospital, Evie, trapped inside an unresponsive body, is desperately trying to wake up. Because she's got an urgent message for Rachel - a warning which could just save both their lives . . .


Lying in Wait - Liz Nugent - 7th July 2016

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The last people who expect to be meeting with a drug-addicted prostitute are a respected judge and his reclusive wife. And they certainly don't plan to kill her and bury her in their exquisite suburban garden.

Yet Andrew and Lydia Fitzsimons find themselves in this unfortunate situation.
While Lydia does all she can to protect their innocent son Laurence and their social standing, her husband begins to falls apart.

But Laurence is not as naïve as Lydia thinks. And his obsession with the dead girl's family may be the undoing of his own.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Crime Fiction Events at Mountains to the Sea Festival!!!

Jane Casey & Liz Nugent
Jane Casey & Liz Nugent
Chaired by Sue Leonard
Sunday 14th September, 2.30
Venue: dlr Lexlcon
Twice shortlisted for the Irish Crime Novel of the Year Award, Jane Casey has written a series of international bestsellers, while D.C. Maeve Kerrigan has become one of the most popular characters in crime fiction. The fifth in the series, The Kill, has a killer terrorising London but this time it is the police who are the targets. Jane Casey was born and brought up in Dublin. She studied English at Oxford and Trinity College, Dublin. Married to a criminal barrister, she lives in London.

Local writer Liz Nugent is an award-winning writer of radio and television drama. Her first novel, Unravelling Oliver, is an arresting psychological thriller and a complex, elegant study of the making of a sociopath. Published in spring 2014, it became an instant bestseller and was described by Ryan Tubridy as ‘Gone Girl meets The Spinning Heart - I couldn’t put it down.’ With this stunning debut, Liz Nugent joins the ranks of the Emerald Noir school of successful Irish crime writers.

Sue Leonard writes interview-based features for the Irish Independent, the Irish Examiner and other publications. She recently co-wrote the number one bestseller, An Act of Love with Marie Fleming.

 Lee Child in conversation with Declan Hughes
Lee Child in conversation with Declan Hughes
Sunday 14th September, 4.30
Venue: Pavilion TheatreS
Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. His novels consistently achieve the number one slot in hardback and paperback on bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic, and are translated into over forty languages.

All have been optioned for major motion pictures, the first of which, Jack Reacher, was based on the novel One Shot. He was awarded the Crime Writers Association Diamond Dagger in 2013.
Jack Reacher, the popular drop-out renegade crusader for justice, returns in a brand-new thriller, Personal, in Lee Child’s number one bestselling series. Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he’s a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him.
Local author Declan Hughes is well known to festival audiences. Hailed as "the best Irish crime novelist of his generation’" his latest novel is All The Things You Are.

Karen Perry & Sinéad Crowley
Karen Perry & Sinéad Crowley
Chaired by Vanessa O'Loughlin
Sunday 14th September, 6.30
Venue: dlr Lexlcon
Karen Perry is a new writing partnership composed of Karen Gillece, author of four critically-acclaimed novels, and Paul Perry, poet, creative writing lecturer and former curator of Poetry Now. Their exciting thriller debut The Boy That Never Was was described by Jeffery Deaver as “a pitchperfect balance of driving plot and honest complex human emotion….the story grips your heart in the early pages and never lets go.”

Sinéad Crowley is currently Arts and Media Correspondent with RTÉ. A few years ago she set herself the challenge of finishing a novel before she turned 40. That book, Can Anybody Help Me is a psychological thriller which draws on her experiences as a mother and internet-user and tells the story of a young woman who becomes dependent on a parenting website after her first child is born. Online, can you always know who your friends are?

Vanessa O'Loughlin runs leading publishing consultancy, The Inkwell Group.  She is also the founder of the writing resources website Writing.ie.

What is it about the crime genre that attracts so many first-time novelists? Hear three successful professionals discuss why it so attracted them and how they turned to a life of crime-writing.

Saturday, August 2, 2014

ALL THE BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ THIS YEAR!

ALL THE BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ THIS YEAR  - via the Journal.ie 

Delighted to be in here with such giants in literature and especially good to be in the company of the lovely Liz Nugent Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Niamh Boyce - Click on Image to View



Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Summer Reads!!!



Tune into Kfm radio this evening to hear some more book reviews from myself,
Hazel Gaynor and Caroline Finnerty.

I'll be chatting about Roisin Meaney 's latest novel, 'After the Wedding', plus 'Unravelling Oliver' by Liz Nugent , 'A Husband's Confession' by Zoe Miller and 'The Shock of the Fall' by Nathan Filer, plus some other great suggestion for your SUMMER READS!!  http://www.kfmradio.com/
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