Wishing you all a very happy, healthy, exciting 2026. We deserve it! 😘💜😊

From me to you, a serene, relaxing and Happy Christmas 🤶🎄

Always exciting when you get Christmas cards very close to Christmas, to see whether you’ve sent everyone their cards ha ha! 😮😀🎄🎅

Very worthy winner. Such a high standard on #StrictlyComeDancing this year, it was a terrific season. 👏👏👏👏 💃 🕺

I always wait in happy anticipation of my favourite shrub‘s heart lifting display, usually at the end of Dec, when the Daphne bursts into blossom heralding longer days & Spring on the horizon. Today she’s blooming beautifully, wafting her gorgeous scent around the garden. And the camellia‘s early!

I was delighted to be asked to write the short story for the Christmas edition of the #RTEGuide, and what a bumper edition it is, and what a gorgeous, evocative Christmassy cover. Reminds me of childhood. 🎅 🎄

My irelandsbigissuemagazine.com Christmas Book Club Picks 🙏 @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social #CarolineGraceCassidy #SarahBinchy @emmaheath.bsky.social #ConorMurray #DonalSkehan @mattcooperlastword.bsky.social #EimearNiBhraonain @miriamocal.bsky.social #RuthFrancesLong @dereklandy.bsky.social

You can never go wrong giving a Christmas present of a book, and here’s a fabulous seasonal delight from #CarolineGraceCassidy who was signing copies in award winning #BookShopoftheYear @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social today. Signed books are a treasure & you can shop online at Chapters.📚😀 🤶 🎄

We were all having nibbles in the garden today. It was so mild and sunny. I was joined by Mr Greedy Guts, Mr Blackbird, Master Squirrel - who is brazen, Mr Robin, and the lovely finches. Being in nature is good for the soul & I’m so blessed to have a garden to enjoy it. #Nature🙏

My Book Club Picks in Nov's www.irelandsbigissue.com out now. #JohnBanville #FaberBooks #MarieCassidy #HachetteIreland #Leovaradkar #Sandycove @mcculld.bsky.social #ManchánMagan #GillBooks #AnnemarieNíChurreáin #TheGalleryPress #DonnchaOCallaghan #AuthorKarenOwen #jennytaylordraw #EiruBooks 🙏

First day out since Sat and who did I bump into at the polling station only my great pal, @sheilawriter.bsky.social. We did our civic duty and felt we deserved a ☕️ The sun was shining - it was warm - we felt quite continental having a most enjoyable and unexpected natter. Unplanned treats are great.

Very, very excited to get a proof of #Banshee from Abigail @johnmurrays.bsky.social 🙏 So wonderful to see our #IrishGoddesses re imagined by these stellar writers. Can’t wait to dive in. 😊✍️📚

Lovely to see #IrelandAMVMTV and the fabulous @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social chaptersbooks supporting #IrishBookWeek My lovely pal and fellow author @sheilawriter.bsky.social is Book week ambassador and is on now 😊📚✍️

Delighted to be nominated in the #WHSmith #IrelandAMVMTV Popular Fiction category in the #anpostirishbookawards. If you feel like casting a vote in my direction, here’s the link. (And you could win a €100 gift voucher). irishbookawards.ie A treat catching up with fellow✍️ esp @griffski.bsky.social

A very buzzy, enjoyable morning in the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social with lots of fellow authors, and then lunch with the lovely Helen McKeane my Publicity Manager extraordinaire. And now to begin a short story. #LovelyDay #amwriting #writerslife

Always a lovely surprise to get a pal’s latest novel, in the post. Thanks SO much @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social and #HachetteIreland really looking forward to it. Gorgeous cover 🙏👍😘😘😘

Great reads in my Oct #BookClubPicks irelandsbigissue.com All Subscriptions welcome. #AHandUpNotAHandout 🙏 @itakennedy.bsky.social @juliakellywrites.bsky.social @newislandbooks.bsky.social #JoNesbo @rfkuang.bsky.social #HugoHamilton #HachetteIrl #DagogoHart #AnitaSchmidt #SophieMorris #GillBooks

Exciting news from @waterstones.bsky.social #WPreorder the stunning paperback of @patriciascanlan.bsky.social Number One Bestseller #CityGirlsForever online or through the app, enter OCTOBER25 at checkout, and receive 25% off RRP! waterstones.com/book/978139853…

Our last night in Wicklow for this year. After torrential rain this morning we were gifted with the most beautiful sunset and moonrise. Season’s end, sadness to be leaving and gratitude for this heavenly place. 🙏

Candles lit for anyone who has the need of them. 🕯️ 🕯️ 😊

A new format at www.irelandsbigissue.com has my Book Club Picks for August. 🙂📚📚📚📚📚 #SineadMoriarity #IsobelMahon @vickinotaro.com #MelissaHill @stephenking.bsky.social #MichaelConnolly @gavreilly.com

In the horrors with post radiation stuff. Found a #LianeMoriarity book. (The superb #MaxineHitchcock her editor, was once mine. 💜) First time to read her. Oh how I forgot myself. How I laughed out loud. How I immersed myself in her character’s lives, desperate to see what happened. #PerfectRead

Delighted #CityGirlsForever is in the best of company #SinéadMoriarity @vickinotaro.com #MelissaHill #FaithHogan and on the next shelf the fabulous, unmissable #CiaraGeraghty’s #LateLearner 🙏 @easons.bsky.social Arklow.

The happiest of Publication Days to the magnificent #CiaraGeraghty for #LateLearner. She’s absolutely at the top of her game. Treat yourselves to a superb read from one of our finest writers. I envy you the read of it. ✍️📚🍾👏👏👏👏 #AmReading #Books

The nights are drawing in. It will be dark by 10pm. 😢

So different from yesterday’s grey gloom, and very warm too. An afternoon of reading awaits. #CountryLife #amreading 😎📚

There’s an almost imperceptible change in the light. The garden, like an aging film star, a little blowsy but still beautiful. The merest hint of a turn on the leaves. I won’t mention the A word although it’s almost a month since the longest day. #TimeIsFlying

I’ve actually been offered bribes to let the gals and the nieces - avid fans of #ciaraGeraghty - read #LateLearner first. Oh the power. (Can I be bought?🤔😂) Always great anticipation for publication day for one of our most superbly talented #IrishWriters. 🙏 @lynnedrew.bsky.social

Drove to Wexford to put flowers on the grave. Candles lit for all. Graveyard as peaceful and uplifting as ever & it didn’t rain, nor when we lunched in Cois na hAbhann, or when driving past our favourite ladies, in Camolin. But the heavens certainly opened just as we got back to Wickla!☔️😳 #RainsCame

Almost full moon, Mir space station joined in the fun, sparkling across the sky. The sea was like warm silk, and then midnight Prosecco under the stars. A perfect Wicklow night. 🙂 🏊 🌕 🍾🥂 ✨

A very happy Publication Day to the powerhouse that is #SinéadMoriarity @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social. She’s SUCH an inspiration and great supporter of #IrishWriters and the Irish publishing industry. AND a terrific writer. ✍️📚📚👏👏👏🥂🥂🥂🍾🍾🍾

Thanks @simonschusteruk.bsky.social for the #Kindle promotion and #CiaraGeraghty for the lovely quote. Made my day. 🙂🙏 #Books #SummerReads #readingforpleasure #AmReading

For the first time this year, us four gals have finally managed to get together to raise a glass. We are quite ‘giddily.’ 😂 🥂 🥂 🍾 🍾 #BestFriends #GirlsJustWantToHaveFun

Just a gentle reminder, especially to debut authors, don’t forget to register your new book with #PLR UK #PLRIrl before 30th June, to be eligible for library payments. 🙂📚📚📚📚

July's📚Club #sinead_moriarty @vickinotaro.com @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #isobelmahon @emblabooks.bsky.social @stephenking.bsky.social @hodderfiction.bsky.social #MichaelConnollyBooks @orionbooks.bsky.social #MelissaHillmelissahillbks @harpercollins.bsky.social @gavreilly.com #GillBooks

So proud to be a @newislandbooks.bsky.social author. 🙂 🙏🙏🙏💜💜💜✍️✍️✍️📚

It’s very heartwarming when a dear friend and fellow author goes to the trouble of taking photos for you, of your book in a shop window. Thanks my darling #CiaraGeraghty and thanks dear #Easons and @gillhessassociates.bsky.social for the great summer promotion for #CityGirlsForever. 🙏🙏🙏😘

It’s a sit-in-the-shade sort of day because it’s a scorcher. The crop is rippling in the breeze and my first sweet pea has blossomed. It’s so uplifting to just sit and enjoy the beauty and balm of nature.

Lovely morning. Lovely moon.

Delighted at #CityGirlsForever inclusion in today’s @irishtimes.com summer reads selection. 🙏 for the lovely acknowledgement of my work. Who’d have thought 35 yrs ago that #CityGirl would be followed by 📚from @mariankeyes.bsky.social @sheilawriter.bsky.social #CathyKelly & we’d sell millions!😊

My Book Club Picks for June’s @irelandsbigissue.bsky.social 🙏 @griffski.bsky.social @jconnollybooks.bsky.social @barbleahy.bsky.social @jokerrigan1.bsky.social @richardtmills.bsky.social @arlenhouse.bsky.social @nualaoconnor.bsky.social #CiaraGerahty @ahmedalnaouq.bsky.social #PamBailey 📚

Am SO delighted to welcome Ms #WandaBroom to the bookshelves. She flew in on her broomstick just in time for long summer holidays to cast her magic on eager readers who can’t wait to read about her magical adventures. Congratulations to my lovely, dear pal #CiaraGeraghty #Magic😘

15 ☢️ sessions done. 😊 The bluest of blue skies, #TheMorrigan gifted to me by the ever kind and supportive @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social, and the Tay! ☕️ 😎 #PerfectAfternoon. #GorgeousWeather #amreading

This fella is brazen. I’m lying on the lounger, beside him, and he’s trying to open the seed container, having feasted at the bird feeder for 5 minutes. 😮

Left the beautiful moon in the sky over ‘our’ field’ in Wickla a little while ago and here she is to welcome me home. What a fabulous BH weekend it was and 3 days without having ☢️ was the icing on the cake. 😊

Happy Bealtaine. My sister and I walked barefoot in the dew and brought Dad’s Little Men to their summer home with the Fae. #Bealtaine #MayDay2025 #TheFae

Lying out on my lounger, reading, and these two little fox cubs are playing. Mama strolled up the garden about half an hour ago, gave me a stare for a few moments and I feel I got the seal of approval!🦊 😊

Lovely to be on the bookshelves in the airport with my great writing pals @sheilawriter.bsky.social @mariankeyes.bsky.social @cathykelly.bsky.social. We’ve known & supported each other for 30 years & for the four of us - No 1 bestselling Irish authors - to be in the same display is very special.☘️✍️📚

New exciting reads for my May Book Club Picks in #BigIssueIreland 🙏 #carolinemadden2 #eriu_books @emmadonoghue.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social #JaneCasey #HemlockPress #WilliamWall @niamhgarvey.bsky.social #NewIslandBooks #SuzanneCollins #Scholastic #TonyPotter #GillBooks Great 📚📚