Sheila O’Flanagan News

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 meant to write instead of whatever’s on the page. However, when I eventually finish spotting the deliberate errors, Her […]

  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 all centred around stations on the Dart, Dublin’s commuter rail system. Am loving the new cover with Dublin’s Ha’penny Bridge […]

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 world and she has to find a way to learn to live and love again – so I took her to […]

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 Imogen’s story as much as English-speaking readers have.

The Missing Wife will be published on Tuesday, 6th February, in the USA. I really hope you enjoy Imogen’s story. You can download an extract here: https://www.hachette.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Chapter-extract.pdf

The Crystal Run – Shield of Lies (March 2018) I’m very excited to share the cover of the sequel to my children’s book, The Crystal Run. Joe and Kaia’s adventures continue in Shield of Lies with more discoveries, more excitement and more danger as they try to uncover the truth about the Shield that keeps […]

I thought I’d share the gorgeous cover for the paperback edition of What Happened That Night which will be published in June 2018. Click on the link below to see it 🙂 Then: When Lola Fitzpatrick catches the eye of Philip Warren she’s new to Dublin and loving it. He’s used to getting what he […]

Irish booksellers Eason’s are running a poll for the best book of 2017. I’m thrilled that What Happened That Night is included in a very strong list – some of my favourite books of 2017 are there too! Everyone who votes has a chance to win a €100 voucher. Obviously I’d love if you voted […]

Thank you for all of your entires to the Hug/Christmas With You competition. It was really difficult to choose the winners and I wish you could all hug the person you want this Christmas. But the Hug packs and signed books have gone to Trish Thompson and Lynne Craig. I hope you like them and […]

I’ve been working hard on my latest book over the last few months and thought it would be nice to share the work in progress with you!

I realise it’s only August and I’ve already blacklisted friends that have told me how many sleeps it is until Christmas, but I have to share the news with you that one of my favourite short story collections is being re-published this October. Previously titled A Season to Remember it’s now called Christmas with You […]