Sunday, 6th September

Price per ticket: € 27.95
Boat in: 12:30 p.m. | Return: 5 p.m.

Tainted Love

Gill Perdue, mary Watson & Sam Blake with Amy Jordan

 

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Reading

Cormac Quinn

 

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Fact to Fiction

Edel Coffey & Clare Coughlan with Michelle Dunne

 

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Gill Perdue

Gill Perdue is the author of bestselling novels If I Tell (nominated for Crime Novel of the Year in the Irish Book Awards 2022), When They See Me (2023) and in 2025 The Night I Killed Him, her third in the Shaw & Darmody series.

Her first standalone crime thriller All Of Them Lied publishes in June 2026 and has already been described by Liz Nugent as ‘the most compulsive reading experience I’ve had this year,’ and ‘unrelentingly tense,’ by Jane Casey.

Gill lives in Dublin with her hiking husband and rescue cat (aka last remaining pet), Dusty.

Mary Watson

Mary Watson is from South Africa and now lives on the west coast of Ireland. She has a PhD from the University of Cape Town, where she taught for many years.

She won the Caine Prize for African Writing for her adult publishing in South Africa, and in 2014 was named on the Africa39 list of writers under 40 with the potential to define trends in African literature.

Her YA novels have been nominated for the Irish Book Awards and the Carnegie medal. Her adult debut, The Cleaner, was a bestseller in Ireland, the UK and Canada.

Sam Blake

Sam Blake is a pseudonym for Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin, the founder of Europe’s biggest writing resources website, the award winning writing.ie, the Writers Ink online writing group and Murder One, Ireland’s International Crime Writing Festival.

She is a multiple No 1 bestselling Irish crime writer and has been shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the Year four times, and twice for Irish Teen and YA Novel of the Year. Her second YA novel, Something’s About to Blow Up was Winner of the International Education Services Teen & YA Novel of the Year 2024. Her latest adult thriller is Your Every Move (January 2026). 15 Kill Lane is released January 2027.

Follow Sam on social @samblakebooks or find out more at www.samblakebooks.com, where you can join her Reader’s Club and receive her adult thriller High Pressure for free.

Amy Jordan

Amy Jordan is a crime writer from Cork. Writing as Amy Cronin, she published three books with Poolbeg Press, before moving to HQ, HarperCollins.

The Dark Hours, her international debut, was published in multiple territories, was reviewed by the New York Times, and was an instant Irish Times bestseller.

Amy’s next thriller, Lie Steal Kill, a follow-up to The Dark Hours, will be released in January 2027.

Keep up to date with Amy’s books at @amyjordanbooks on Instagram.

Cormac Quinn

Based in Dublin, Cormac Quinn is a debut author with a passion for the murder mystery genre.

At much too young an age, he started reading detective novels and has yet to stop.

In a previous life, he was a journalist and news editor in Asia.

 

Edel Coffey


Edel Coffey is an Irish author and journalist.

She has published three number-one bestselling novels.

Her debut novel, Breaking Point, won the An Post Irish Book Award for Crime Novel of the Year.

She is a regular contributor to The Irish Times and RTE Radio One.

 

Clare Coughlan

Claire Coughlan worked as a journalist before starting to write fiction.

She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UCD and is the author of two crime novels, Where They Lie and Among the Ruins, both published by Simon & Schuster UK.

Where They Lie was nominated for the Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year at the 2024 An Post Irish Book Awards. In the same year, Claire was selected by the An Post Irish Book Awards as part of its New Voices: Best New Irish Writers list.

She can be found on Instagram @claireelizabethco

 

Michelle Dunne

Michelle Dunne is a bestselling psychological thriller writer from Cork whose new thriller, A GOOD MOTHER, came out to rave reviews in April 25.

Michelle also wrote The Hotel Maid and The Good Girl, which saw its Czech language edition chosen as one of the 12 most exciting books to publish in Czech Republic in 2025. It launched in March at the annual Big Book Thursday event in Prague.

Michelle also wrote the Lindsey Ryan series of psychological thrillers, While Nobody is Watching and The Invisible. The series is currently in development for television and is inspired by Michelle’s own experiences as an infantry soldier and United Nations Peacekeeper.

Michelle is organiser and programmer of the Spike Island Literary Festival – a crime-themed festival set in Ireland’s very own Alcatraz. In 2024 she also joined the team at Dublin’s international crime writing festival, Murder One.