A Fine Statement

Poetry anthologies come six to the dozen at Christmas time, like familiar but tired relatives. This one is different. For A Fine Statement, John McDonagh asked twenty of Ireland’s best-loved poets to choose their five favourite poems from their ow...

Alex Coleman

All is not well in Jackie’s world. Her relationship with her son has deteriorated badly and her relationship with her daughter seems to be going the same way. She’s lost her parents to a drunk driver and in the aftermath of that blow has become es...

Anne Dunlop

Farming, babies, sex, eccentricity; all the quirkiness and wit Anne Dunlop’s fans expect and then some!

Jane was seventeen when Michael whisked her away to the wetlands of rural Ireland – to share a farmhouse and their marriage with hi...

Claire Allan

Aoife is 32 and in an on/off relationship with sexy singer Jake. When she finds out she is pregnant, he decides the relationship is most definitely off and leaves her before she has time to say 'Mothercare'.

Desperate to get him back- ...

Daniel's Daughter

City girl Angela Brennan is astounded when the father she has never known leaves her a house and land in the country. She is also a little fearful. But it does give her the chance to take her young son Thomas and start a new life, far from th...

Guarding Maggie

POOLBEG CRIMSON debut Guarding Maggie by Ellen McCarthy

Maggie walked into her yard and found a strange man standing there, with her dog walking circles around him.

Maggie has lived at home all her li...