“The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life; Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"
Robert Browning
1812-1889

“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
Virginia Woolf
1882-1941

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Amanda Brunker

The inimitable Amanda Brunker, journalist, social diarist, model, TV host and former Miss Ireland has recently added fiction writing to her list of accomplishments.  Her first novel, Champagne Kisses, will be published in Ireland and UK by Transworld in June 2008.

Evelyn Cosgrave

Evelyn Cosgrave is a maths teach, mother of Dharma and Maya, and a novelist whose light and witty style won her a two-book deal from Penguin.  The first of these novels, Desperately Seeking, is currently garnering much media interest.

   Cornucopia Creative Team

Good news for vegetarians and all lovers of good food!  Down at the famous Cornucopia restaurant, writer Eleanor Heffernan, photographer Orla Keeshan and graphic designer Orlagh Murphy are cooking, tasting, sketching, laughing, photographing, scribbling, cleaning, sweeping, chatting, reminiscing and planning -- all in order to put together a cookbook collection of the restaurant's best loved recipes, Cornucopia At Home. Like the restaurant, the book promises to be full of life, authenticity, quirkiness, love, enthusiasm, ideals and soul.  It will publish through Atrium Press in autumn 2008.

Garbhan Downey

Garbhan Downey is an author and journalist based in Derry.  One-time Senior Producer (News) at BBC Northern Ireland, his genre is political satire and his books include The Private Diary of a Suspended MLA (Guildhall Press, Derry 2004) and a book of satirical short stories Off Broadway (Guildhall, 2005).  His current novel Running Mates (Blackstaff Press, April 2007) showcases Garbhan's signature style of madcap mayhem and skullduggery, with a race (to the kill) for the Irish presidency.  Garbhan is currently working on a political biography.

Paul KiIduff   

Paul Kilduff moved to London in 1989 and spent six years working in the City of London before returning to Dublin in 1995.  His latest book Ruinair, Paul's first venture into non-fiction, a hilarious but informative exploration of the pros and cons of cheap air travel, is a No 1 Irish bestseller.  He has also written a series of financial thrillers: Square Mile (1999); The Dealer (2000); The Frontrunner (2001) and The Headhunter (2003).  His website is www.paulkilduff.com

Karen Lotter

Karen Lotter is a writer and journalist based in Durban, South Africa. She has written profiles, features, advertising copy, obituaries, press releases, scripts and messages in lip liner on coasters to gorgeous strangers!  At the age of almost 50, she realised her dream of writing fiction. Karen's first novel, Follow The Son, a lesbian detective story based in South Africa, will be published in the US by Bywater Books (Sept 2008).  Her website is http://protocolinpractice.co.za

Paul Lynch

Paul Lynch is Film Critic with The Sunday Tribune, currently writing his first nonfiction title.

Susanne O'Leary

Font represents Susanne O'Leary's two most successful books, Fresh Powder, Ireland's first chick-lit ski-romp and Finding Margo. Her website is www.susanne-oleary.com

Dearbhail McDonald

Dearbhail McDonald is an award winning journalist and Legal Editor at The Irish Independent.  She is at work on her first nonfiction book.

Donal Maguire

Donal Magure alternates between the glamorous life of a public servant and the drudgery of researching book plots set in exotic locations, featuring lots of action and sex. His first novel, a thriller, is currently seeking a publisher. 

Orna Ross

Orna Ross is a novelist and founder of Font Literary Agency & Writing Centre.  Her books explore the consequences of the past across generations. Her first novel, Lovers' Hollow, received unanimous praise on publication.  Her second, A Dance in Time, will appear in September 2008 and she is currently at work on a set of novels centred on the New York Draft Riots of 1863.  Her website is www.ornaross.com

Audrey Talbot

Audrey Talbot was born in Tipperary but lives in Dublin.  She studied English and Classics at University College Dublin and has lived in southern Italy before working for several years as a teacher.  She has written articles, poems and short stories.  Audrey is at work on a fictional biography set in eighteenth-century Ireland. 

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