Hello Readers,

We welcomed in 2019 with an Irish writer.

Our January pick was Sally Rooney’s debut novel ‘Conversations with Friends’. This Mayo writer has quickly gathered a strong fan base and recently won several awards for her second novel ‘Normal People’ including the Costa Book Award this month.

She has been dubbed the ‘Salinger for the Snapchat generation’ by her editor at Faber & Faber and The New Yorker has described her as the ‘first great millennial novelist for her stories of love and late capitalism’. The attention she has garnered has bee...