by Orna Ross | Dec 22, 2016 | POETRY
After we've taken to the shops, the public houses, the clamour and glitz, we come home, step out of the swell, hole up with our howl, cradle it close, hold it still, until we can let it go out with us again, out into the cold and the frozen. Until we can let it show...
by Orna Ross | Dec 3, 2016 | FICTION |
Just out: Footage of the Historical Fiction panel at The Triskele Literary Festival in London, back in September. Together with Radhika Swarup, JD Smith and Alison Morton, I was interviewed about the joys of writing historical fiction. Between us, we covered 3rd...
by Orna Ross | Nov 5, 2016 | FICTION |
On October 25th, which also happens to be the night the Man-Booker prize winner was announced this year, I won my own first prize as a novelist. It's not likely that you'll have heard of that award, for three reasons. It's an Irish prize, this is its first year in...
by Orna Ross | Oct 25, 2016 | FICTION |
The Carousel Aware Prize for the best independently published books in Ireland will be announced tonight, at a gala event in Dublin. I'm honored that Her Secret Rose is shortlisted in the Best Novel category and sad that, for personal reasons, I can't travel to...
by Orna Ross | Oct 12, 2016 | FICTION |
In this extract, we’re taking up the story, just before Mercy's father dies and she is arrested for the murder. At this point, she has returned to Ireland to care for him, he’s very old, he’s very ill and he’s as tyrannical as he ever was, in the days when she fled...