Siobhan Murphy

Jan 10, 2025 | thetimes.com | Siobhan Murphy

Nov 28, 2024 | thetimes.com | Siobhan Murphy |Johanna Thomas-Corr

This was a great year for novels about weird secrets. There were illegitimate children (Colm Tóibín’s Long Island). There were spies infiltrating eco-activist groups (Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake). And there was a crockery-stealing house guest with a hidden agenda (Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep). In James, Percival Everett’s reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the slaves make a secret of their literacy.

Nov 11, 2024 | southeastradio.ie | Siobhan Murphy

Insurance costs, particularly motor insurance, continue to rise sharply in Ireland, with premiums increasing at a rate of nearly 11%—much higher than the

Nov 8, 2024 | thetimes.com | Siobhan Murphy

Adelaide Williams is in A&E when we meet her — after a suicide attempt she had second thoughts about. What brought her here? That’s the meat of Genevieve Wheeler’s debut novel, which, we’re told, is largely autofiction. We flip back to 2018: Adelaide, an American expat living in London, sets up a date on an app and finds her life cleaved into “Before Rory Hughes” and “After Rory Hughes”.

Oct 11, 2024 | thetimes.com | Siobhan Murphy

Japanese and Korean fiction regularly pops up on the bestseller charts. What’s the appeal? Well, cats seem to feature heavily — from The Travelling Cat Chronicles to The Guest Cat, via myriad appearances in Haruki Murakami novels. The Japanese “modern classic” Mornings with My Cat Mii, published in 1999, now gets an English translation to tap into our fixation with all things east Asian and feline.