Tag: Becoming Belle

  • EVENTS – AUTUMN 2024

    A roundup of upcoming events: KINSALE, 5th October, 2.45pm: Join me and Sinead Gleeson with Tara Flynn at Words By Water Literary Festival in Kinsale, Co. Cork. More here. DUBLIN, 10th October, 6pm: I am taking part in the ISLA Festival at the Cervantes Institute in Dublin in an event called Fascinating Lives, with Fernando Beltrán (Spain), and Irene…

  • GLENVILLE PARK – CORK – LITERATURE DAY

    Join us in Cork on 6th July 2024 for a gorgeous day of literature, ladies, literary chats, and so in in the beautiful, historic surroundings of Glenville Park.

  • Galway Libraries video

    I loved taking part in the Women Writers of the West online reading group events, where I talked mostly about my novel Becoming Belle and a little about NORA. You can watch the recording here.

  • New interviews

    There are two new interviews with Nuala online this week. One with Cathy Brown at 746 Books which includes a giveaway of Becoming Belle. Here. The second is the Crannóg Questionnaire, by Crannóg literary journal, to celebrate their 50th issue. Here.

  • COVER REVEAL

    The beautiful UK cover for Becoming Belle, out in June. Thanks to my lovely editor Anna Boatman and all the team at Piatkus and Little Brown UK. I love it!

  • PARIS READING – BECOMING BELLE

    Nuala’s event with Michele Forbes, and moderated by Clíona Ní Riordáin, was a great success in Paris last night. A large, enthused crowd and a great Q&A. Thanks to Marion Mossud, librarian at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, for hosting the reading.

  • Becoming Belle Review -Examiner

    Matthew Geden has given Becoming Belle a very positive review in today’s Irish Examiner.

  • WRITING.IE REVIEW OF BECOMING BELLE

    Helena Mulkerns reviews Becoming Belle at writing.ie. * In this, the second literary foray into Victorian times for Nuala O’Connor, the author has created a splendid, loveable heroine who brings to life the spirit of an age.  In Victorian times, while it may have been rare for women to explore and enjoy independence, when they…

  • WEXFORD LAUNCH OF BELLE – CULTURE NIGHT!

  • Sun Indo review of Belle

    Eilis O’Hanlon reviews Belle in today’s Sunday Independent: Impeccable period detail adds to a fun proto-feminist plotline Growing up in a military barracks in Aldershot at the end of the 19th century, Isabel Bilton knows that she will never find a suitable man to marry, and certainly not one with prospects. The eldest, and most…