Author Name
Author Name
LITERARY, FILM & TV AGENCY
MARIANNE GUNN O'CONNOR
Jul 17, 2022
Published by John Murray on June 22nd Factory Girls tells the story of Maeve and her two best friends, as they try to squeeze as much fun as possible into their last summer at home in small town Northern Ireland. But as marching season raises tensions among the Catholic and Protestant workforce, Maeve realises something is going on behind the scenes at the factory, forcing her to make a choice that will impact her life - and the lives of others - for ever..
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‘Factory Girls’ continues to garner rave reviews
Michelle Gallen’s
Jun 21, 2022
Smart-mouthed and filthy-minded, Maeve Murray has always felt like an outsider in the shitty wee town in Northern Ireland that she calls home. She hopes her exam results will be her ticket to a new life in London; a life where no one knows her business, or cares about her dead sister. But first she's got to survive a tit-for-tat paramilitary campaign as brutal as her relationship with her mam, iron 800 shirts a day to keep her summer job in the local factory, and dodge the attentions of Handy Andy Strawbridge, her dubious English boss.
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‘bang-on, and seriously funny’
Factory Girls is published today
Michelle Gallen’s
May 31, 2022
Scholastic UK is thrilled to announce a three book deal with Emmy-nominated producer Triona Campbell. Described as Ready Player One meets Black Mirror, her debut YA novel, A Game of Life or Death is a contemporary thriller with a high stake speculative twist, and will be released in February 2023.
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‘major new YA star’s sensational debut thriller’ A Game Of Life Or Death acquired by Scholastic UK in auction
Triona Campbell’s
May 30, 2022
Louise’s latest book, the haunting The Room In The Attic, published by Boldwood Books in October continues to delight readers in the Amazon Top 10 where it has become a permanent fixture and this week has risen to number 2 in this week’s Amazon Kindle bestsellers.
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The Room in The Attic is #2 on this week’s Amazon Kindle bestsellers list
Louise Douglas’s
May 4, 2022
In May 2020, John Connell finds himself, like so many others, confined to his local area, the opportunity to freely travel and socialise cut short. His attention turns to the Camlin river – an ever-present source of life for his town’s inhabitants and, for John, a site of boyhood adventure, first love, family history and local legend.
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‘invigorating, blissful, balm in our relentless age’ The Stream of Everything published today by Gill Books
John Connell’s
Apr 26, 2022
Catherine Prasifka’s None of This is Serious has jumped to number 2 in the original fiction best sellers list this week and continues to attract glowing reviews.
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None of This is Serious ‘balancing visions of the apocalypse with a Gen-Z everywoman’s daily grind’ shoots to #2
Catherine Prasifka’s
Apr 13, 2022
Published today by Unbound, Pogumahone tells the story of Dan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, is looking after his sister Una, now seventy and suffering from dementia in a care home in Margate.
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‘shape-shifting epic’ Poguemahone published today to great critical acclaim
Patrick McCabe’s
Apr 12, 2022
Picked As 'One To Watch' For 2022 by Irish Times, Stylist And Irish Independent and selected as a book for BBC Radio 4 the book has garnered glowing reviews and endorsements on it’s publication last Thursday.
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None of This is Serious makes its own magic charting at no 5 on the best sellers list just days after publication
Catherine Prasifka’s
Apr 3, 2022
Published today by Gill Books, Build Your Own: Use What You Have To Create What You Need explores the principles of construction and outlines a multitude of practices and methods that enable us to build a home with the materials available to us.
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Build Your Own:
Use What You Have To Create What You Need is published today
Harrison Gardner’s
Mar 24, 2022
Patricia Deevy, Deputy Publisher at Sandycove bought UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) rights from Marianne Gunn O’Connor of the Marianne Gunn O’Connor Film, TV and Literary Agency. It will be published in February 2023.
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captivating new novel The Home Scar acquired by Penguin Sandycove
Kathleen MacMahon’s
Mar 24, 2022
When Clothilde Ewing was pregnant with her first baby eight years ago, like most moms-to-be she had a checklist to complete: "Get the crib, get the car seat, decorate the nursery, get books."
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tells PEOPLE ‘It's important to see children of colour in books where kids are just having fun’
Clothilde Ewing
Mar 24, 2022
Stella Keeps The Sun Up by Clothilde Ewing with illustrations by Lynn Gaines, published earlier this month by Simon & Schuster USA, has been selected by People Magazine as one of their People Picks Best New Books in their April 4th edition
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Stella Keeps The Sun Up, illustrated by Lynn Gaines, selected by People Magazine as their Kid's Pick for April
Clothilde Ewing’s
Mar 11, 2022
Pan Macmillan editor Jayne Osborne has acquired UK & Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to Fling and a second book by debut author Joseph Murray, from Marianne Gunn O’Connor at Marianne Gunn O’Connor Literary/Film/TV Agency. Elsewhere, rights have sold in France, Germany, and Poland.
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‘joyful, heartfelt and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy’ FLING acquired by Pan Macmillan in a two-book deal
Joseph Murray’s
Mar 11, 2022
Pan Macmillan editor Jayne Osborne has acquired UK & Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to Fling and a second book by debut author Joseph Murray, from Marianne Gunn O’Connor at Marianne Gunn O’Connor Literary/Film/TV Agency. Elsewhere, rights have sold in France, Germany, and Poland.
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‘joyful, heartfelt and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy’ FLING acquired by Pan Macmillan in a two-book deal
Joseph Murray’s
Mar 8, 2022
Founded by The Arts Council What’s in the Water? is the podcast created by Sinead Moriarty & Anna Mc Partlin as a strong platform for Irish female authors to celebrate the wealth of talent in Ireland and the culture it springs from.
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What's in The Water? podcast is now available on Spotify and Apple
Sinead Moriarty’s
