NUALA O'CONNOR

Category: Reviews

  • PRESS – SEABORNE

    We’ve had lots of great press for SEABORNE thanks to Peter O’Connell. I was here in the Irish Daily Mail talking about my love of mavericks, like Anne Bonny. There was last Saturday’s Irish Times Magazine interview with Niamh Donnelly. And last week’s wonderful Sunday Independent review by Lorraine Courtney: And today a fab review…

  • NORA IN NYT TOP 10

    I’m very pleased the New York Times names my novel NORA among the 10 best historical novels of 2021. ‘A lively fictional rendition of Nora Barnacle, the minimally educated, blue-collar woman who propped up one of literature’s most challenging highbrow writers.’ Huge thanks to Alida Becker. Lovely to be in there with personal faves Alison…

  • NORA on the BOOK SHOW

    The Book Show, hosted by Rick O’Shea, featured NORA in its historical fiction segment. Big thanks to Breda Brown for highlighting NORA. You can listen here. (The hist fic section starts around 10:15, but Louise Nealon, on first, is also worth a listen.)

  • NORA in INDO REVIEW

    NORA is beautifully reviewed by Martina Devlin in the Irish Independent‘s Review magazine today: ‘…historical fiction brought lushly to life, laced with glorious prose…’. More here.

  • NORA review – Brendan O’Connor show

    Thanks a mill to Eibhear Walshe for a fab review of NORA on Saturday’s Brendan O’Connor show on RTÉ Radio 1. Listen here. (Review starts about 10 minutes in.) The panel also discusses Julia Parry’s The Shadowy Third which I reviewed for Books Ireland magazine. An excellent read, one of my books of the year,…

  • NORA in DRB

    Afric McGlinchey gives NORA a wonderful review in the Dublin Review of Books. ‘In language brimming with evocative imagery and energy, O’Connor resurrects a life ‑ and a love ‑ of magnificent intensity.’ More here.

  • NORA in CANADA

    I am taking part in the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, as part of Dublin Book Festival‘s appearance there. Look out for me, Breda Brown, and NORA on the 29th of April at 3pm GMT. More here. Caoimhe White reviewed NORA on the DBF site here.

  • NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW – NORA

    My first New York Times review today and it’s for my beloved NORA. Big thanks to Alida Becker. I’ve pasted the entire thing in below; a swift flavour though: ‘…Nora is entirely convincing in her raw sensuality, her stubborn determination, her powerful sense of grievance.’ Very pleased 🙂 NEW YORK TIMES – 16th March 2021…

  • BOSTON GLOBE REVIEWS NORA

    The Boston Globe has reviewed my novel NORA today and it’s a good one, calling it ‘an exhaustive and often wildly engaging’. You can read it here. I’ve also pasted the full review text below. * BOOK REVIEW Historical fiction reimagines the love between Joyce and his lifelong companion By Clea Simon Globe Correspondent, December 17, 2020, 5:00…