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Bestselling author. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Cork exile enjoying the quiet life in Wicklow.
My debut novel “Blood and Water” out now with Mercier Press!

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They’ve shared their reviews of the Red Line Book Festival, now we want to hear yours! Let us know by leaving your feedback in the comments below❤️

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Red Line Festival 2026 - in its 14th year and it just keeps getting better! Thank you for having me back again this year. Roll on 2027 / year 15!!

Finding Calm in a Busy World with @dearbhlam and @miriammulcahy at Lucan Library on Thursday evening - discussing their books: Finding Joy and Walking to the Foot of the Sky

First Fiction: Debut Novels with @jenniferbrayinsta, @rebeccam_ire and @nursefancypants in the Civic Theatre studio space on Friday evening - discussing their books: The Lies Between Us and Blood and Water

Now You Are Wonderful with @marykennedyrte in conversation with @nursefancypants in the Civic Theatre studio space on Sunday afternoon

and wrapping up the festival with Aoife McMahon: Behind the mic in the Civic Theatre Studio Space one last time on Sunday evening

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Thinking of heading to @redlinefest ? Now’s the time to book!📚✨

Tickets are selling fast across the festival, with many events already sold out and plenty more running low on availability. If you’ve had your eye on one of the fantastic events happening in The Civic, Tallaght, don’t leave it too late.

Secure your seat now through the www.redlinefestival.ie or click the link in our bio🎟️

#RedLineBookFestival #RedLine26 #SDCCLibraries

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Red Line Festival 2026

The programme launched last night, and honestly, they’ve outdone themselves yet again.

The work that Mags, Sarah, Síle and the whole team put into this festival is immense — all on top of their librarian duties.

I’m delighted to be hosting/moderating two events this year, as well as attending two more, so it’s going to be a busy (and book-filled!) week.

Swipe across to see what I’ve got in the diary…

#TiredMammyBookClub #RedLineFestival #RedLineFestival2026

Charleen Hurtubise: In Conversation with Chloe Cowman
 Wednesday 14 October | 6.30pm | Clondalkin Library

Join author Charleen Hurtubise as she talks about her new book Saoirse with Chloe Cowman @nursefancypants

Finding Calm in a Busy World
 Thursday 15 October | 7pm | Lucan Library

Dearbhla Mescal and Miriam Mulcahy come together for a warm conversation about life, change and finding space for yourself in a busy world.

In Finding Joy, Dearbhla reflects on retirement, raising a family, her experience of cancer and embracing a new chapter in her life.

Miriam’s Walking to the Foot of the Sky explores walking, landscape and the solace we can find in the natural world.

I’ll be guiding the conversation and can’t wait to talk to these two amazing women.

Jen Bray & Rebecca Murphy: First Fiction – Debut Novels
 Friday 16 October | 6.45pm | Civic Studio Space, Tallaght

Jen Bray and Rebecca Murphy will be interviewed by Chloe Cowman @nursefancypants

Aoife McMahon: Behind the Mic
 Sunday 18 October | 7pm | Civic Theatre Studio Space, Tallaght

I’ll be joining acclaimed audiobook narrator Aoife McMahon for a fascinating conversation about what it takes to bring stories to life through the spoken word.

I have so many questions for Aoife!!

Book your tickets now; link in bio. 🔴

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Are you taking a video of me? 💖

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Brilliant #bookpost to end the week! 🙌

Maybe the World Will End So We Won’t Have To @bytashbell – out 1st September

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Reviews still flooding in – featuring blissful adjectives like…

‘Playful, surprising and moving.’
Amie Corry

‘Fearlessly honest, emotionally acute and very funny.’
Jessica Moor, author of Hold Back the Night

‘The pages turn themselves…’
Lara Haworth, author of Monumenta

‘A perfect balance of raucously fun and archly disturbing.’
Kimberly Campanello, author of Use the Words You Have

‘A mesmerising, fiercely intelligent book. I loved it.’
Celia Silvani, author of Just Between Mothers

‘A fall into the metafictional abyss has never been so funny, or so absurdly inventive, or so pointed about the alternating egotisms and humiliations of the writing life.’
Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill

‘Interesting, provocative and darkly funny at times!’
Rebecca Murphy, author of Blood and Water

‘A unique and absorbing meditation on the difference, if any, between life and art. I loved it.’
Carole Hailey, author of The Silence Project

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get your pride flags out divas!

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A big thank you to everyone who came to the Pages of Pride event @dubraybooks this Thursday 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

It felt incredible to bring Neuroqueer to Cork as an author from Cork. I’m beyond proud. Thank you to @caoimheisme.books @dubraybooks and @mercierpressbooks for the opportunity to chat about all things fan fiction, d!d0s and writing. Also, wonderful to chat with @rebeccam_ire especially as we touched on Buffy fan fiction!!

The next Neuroqueer event will be @paperxclipsbooks in Belfast in October. 🍸

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✏️Susan arrives on Dune Island with a plan, settle her late uncle’s estate, sign the papers, and leave within a week. The inheritance is simple, a weathered cottage, a small distillery, a stubborn dog named Walter. Nothing to linger for.

✏️Except Susan isn’t just there to close a chapter. She’s running, from Jen, from a loss she cannot yet name, and from a life that has quietly unravelled.

✏️But Dune Island does not let people pass through untouched.

✏️Cut off on the edge of the Wild Atlantic Way, where the ferry runs on Mick’s time and every glance carries a question, Susan begins to uncover what her uncle Frank left behind, not just property, but a lifetime of silence. And the longer she stays, the more the island reveals, buried stories, unspoken grief, a family history shaped as much by what was hidden as by what was known.

✏️And as the past begins to surface, Susan must confront the truths she came to escape.

✏️She came to Dune Island to be alone. The island had other ideas.

✏️Blood and Water is a haunting, beautifully observed novel about identity, inheritance, and the quiet devastations that echo through generations. With warmth, wit, and emotional precision, Rebecca Murphy introduces a striking new voice in fiction, one that lingers long after the final page.

✏️A debut novel about a marriage broken by grief, a West Cork island, and the family secrets waiting at the end of the road. For readers of Anne Enright and Maggie O’Farrell.

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✨April-May✨

Ice cream, Lucy Spraggan concert in the Caves, Girli gig in the record shop, an evening with Lucy Darling, a weekend with the littlest cousin, Waitress and stagedooring, Wuthering Dykes' birthday party, new book, tasty pastries and beautiful poetry

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Do we really need the supernatural when everyday life is already so fascinating?

In this episode, @rebeccam_ire explains why she is drawn to the elevation of ordinary life. Influenced by classic Irish storytellers like Donal Ryan and Maeve Binchy, Rebecca believes that ordinary people's lives are already bursting with richness, heartbreak, joy, and loss - no ghosts or magic required!

From chatty encounters while canvassing to observing everyday moments in Cork, Rebecca reminds us that there is endless magic hidden directly within the mundane.

Listen to or watch the full episode via our website (https://corkcreative.ie/rebecca-murphy/) or wherever you get your podcasts to find out how she elevates these everyday stories in Blood & Water.

@mercierpressbooks
#CorkCreative #Storytelling #MaeveBinchy #EverydayMagic #IrishLiterature #CorkLife #fluxlearn

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Took a sneaky day off today with @lucyhayhoe while the toddler was at nursery: dropping off proofs, picking up some brilliant books by friends and old students (Gayathiri, @rebeccam_ire & @thatsparklybec yours is on order...), plus a delicious swim @ladies_pond_hampstead_heath (which, incidentally, features in Maybe the World Will End So We Won't Have To). And I forgot to take a picture at my first stop, @lrbbookshop, who were very sweet when I showed them they're mentioned in the opening line.

Now I'm off to workshop with my pals. 😀

I love being a parent, but finally taking some big slurps of my old self feels very good. Hope you've had a good Friday too. Happy weekend & HAPPY PRIDE! 🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️

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