Sheila O’Flanagan News

It was disappointing to read that Jeanette Winterson recently burned reissued copies of her books because she hated the ‘cosy little domestic blurbs’ which ‘turned me into wimmins fiction of the worst kind’. Not content […]

    This time last year I was carefully co-ordinating my diary for book signings and reader events to celebrate the paperback publication of Her Husband’s Mistake. This year I’m aching to put anything at […]

Irish writers on Covid-19: ‘We’re all having a shockin’ dose of the wombles’   Sheila O’Flanagan: ‘We have changed’ Stories have always been my refuge but I’m finding it hard to inhabit them right now. […]

I’ve been working from home for over twenty years so it’s interesting to listen to the current commentary on the joys and difficulties of being a home worker, along with the suggestions for making this […]

In case you missed Sheila’s Facebook Live from Tuesday 14th April, you can catch it here.   Make sure you are following Sheila’s Facebook page for news of future Facebook Lives: @sheilabooks  

In case you missed my Facebook Live from Monday 30th March, you can catch it here.   My next Facebook Live is TONIGHT at 7pm (Tuesday 14th April 2020). Make sure you are following my […]

Hi, readers in Merseyside!!   I’ll be doing a quick trip to celebrate the paperback publication of Her Husband’s Mistake and hope some of you can make it to my Q&A in the fabulous Linghams […]

It’s always nice to meet my editor in person after months of conversations about the work in progress!  

The next few weeks at my writing desk have been sorted with the arrival of page proofs. Correcting them is one of the hardest jobs in writing because it’s so easy to read what you […]

  My very first collection of short stories, first published as Destinations nearly 15 years ago, has now been updated and will be released on 18th October as The Moment We Meet. The stories are […]

I’m delighted to say that my latest novel, The Hideaway, is at No 1 in the Irish charts.   I loved writing about Juno as a character – the bottom has fallen out of her […]

The Missing Wife, my best-selling novel about a woman who runs away from her emotionally abusive husband, is now available in German, Italian and Swedish editions. I hope my readers in these countries will love […]