Sheila O’Flanagan News

Look what arrived this morning – the lovely paperback editions of If You Were Me which will be in the shops on 12th March. I hope you enjoy it!

Here’s the cover for my next book, My Mother’s Secret, out in the summer!

I spent a lovely afternoon with Lucy Kennedy, Martin King and Chef Adrian for the last ever Late Lunch Live on Ireland’s TV3. We talked about my career as a writer as well as lots […]

The paperback edition of If You Were Me will be released in most countries on 12th March with a lovely new cover. I hope you like it!

I’m one of those nerdy types who go ballistic when they see spelling mistakes in shops and on posters. I practically faint when someone writes “your” instead of “you’re” and I’ve been known to change […]

I’m really excited to tell you that I’m now also a children’s book author! The lovely people at Hodder book publishing will be bringing out my first every book for children in 2016. It’s a […]

To fit in with the jacket designs for my most recent books, Things We Never Say and If You Were Me, the team at Headline have come up with new designs for the covers of […]

As part of AMD awareness week I contributed to a short book in which authors were asked to reimagine the endings of classic stories. I always thought Jane was too good for Mr Rochester, so […]

Despite some of the pix on my timeline I didn’t spend all summer lounging around drinking cocktails – I also did some work on next year’s book. And this is to let you all know […]

Owner of the lovely Gutter Bookshop in Dublin’s Temple Bar, Bob Johnston, and novelist Claudia Carroll (Love Me or Leave Me, A Very Accidental Love Story) reviewed If You Were Me for the book club […]

if you were me is now out in Ireland and the UK and will be out next week in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and next month in Canada. I've been updating social media […]

These gorgeous copies of If You Were Me arrived at my publisher’s offices yesterday and I’m getting both excited and nervous about publication date which is drawing ever closer. These are the dates in different […]