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Niamh Mulvey
Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
Niamh Mulvey is a writer from Kilkenny.
Her first novel, The Amendments was published in April 2024 and nominated for an An Post Irish Book Award.
Her first book, a short story collection, Hearts and Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth, was published in 2022 and was shortlisted for the John McGahern award. She is currently working on her third novel, a literary suspense inspired by Patricia Highsmith.
Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
Niamh Mulvey is a writer from Kilkenny.
Her first novel, The Amendments was published in April 2024 and nominated for an An Post Irish Book Award.
Her first book, a short story collection, Hearts and Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth, was published in 2022 and was shortlisted for the John McGahern award. She is currently working on her third novel, a literary suspense inspired by Patricia Highsmith.
Published Works
Author: Clíodhna O’Sullivan
Genres: Young Adult Fiction
The second book in the No 1 bestselling romantasy series (Her Hidden Fire, 2)
The second book in the searing HER HIDDEN FIRE romantasy trilogy, perfect for fans of S. F. Williamson, Lynette Noni and Samantha Shannon.
What happens when a girl escapes her fate?
The hunt begins.
Éadha has narrowly escaped the cruel grip of the Master Channellers on the back of a dragon. Forced to the very edge of the world she knows, to a place of long-held secrets, she must create a new life for herself - in ways she'd never imagined.
Ionáin must come to terms with the fact that he has no power, nor did he ever. Deep into the Fodder holds, he faces the stark reality of what it means to be an enemy of the Masters, and tries to make sense of what happened with Éadha.
Gry must walk the careful balance between protecting his Family's secret legacy and being true to his feelings. With his newly revealed abilities, he must train with the Masters he despises and hope to find some way to undo the very system that makes him elite.
Told from these three perspectives, HER RISING FLAME is a whirlwind sequel of world-shattering secrets, heartache, and the terrible consequences of power.
What would you sacrifice for love?
Author: Clíodhna O’Sullivan
Genres: Genre Fiction
THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!
The first book in a searing new romantasy trilogy, perfect for fans of A LANGUAGE OF DRAGONS and THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE.
If he has the ability to wield magical powers, everyone will rejoice – especially the girl who loves him. But what happens when they realize she has the gift?
Éadha (A-ya) has grown up in a deeply flawed society. In Domhain, power is drawn by elites from the life force of other, “lesser” people called Fodder. Those with this innate ability, the Channellers, have reshaped society to ensure their own high status and obscure the exploitative nature of their powers. Éadha, a lowly servant girl, is in love with her close childhood friend Ionáin, the son of the keep’s ruling family. But the fate of his family’s position rests on whether Ionáin has inherited a Channeller’s ability – everyone is tense, waiting to see the result of the assessment on his 17th birthday.
However, in a twist of fate, Éadha discovers that she herself contains this power … and Ionáin doesn’t. It’s unheard of – and dangerous – for a servant, especially a woman, to be a Channeller.
Instead, Éadha tricks everyone into believing her to be gifted only as a Keeper, a Channeller’s assistant who is less powerful but can manipulate the threads of power from Fodder. She is allowed to attend the Channeller training academy alongside Ionáin, who is – unbeknownst to him – being empowered by Éadha’s own gift. Here, she is caught up in a whirlwind of patriarchy and heartache, torn between her lifelong devotion to Ionáin and her undeniable attraction to the enigmatic Gry. She also learns a devastating lesson: the human cost of the Channellers’ power – and the lengths they will go to keep it.
“A thrilling fantasy about power and patriarchy”
- The Bookseller, featured as Book of the Month“Riveting, romantic and thought-provoking”
- The Guardian“A complex web of magic, feminism, sexual desire, Irish folklore and, of course, dragons – this will leave fans desperate for the next in the trilogy.”
- Daily Mail
Author: Niamh Mulvey
Genres: Literary Fiction
Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments by Niamh Mulvey is an extraordinary novel about love and freedom, belonging and rebellion – and about how our past is a vital presence which sits alongside us.
Nell and her partner Adrienne are about to have a baby. For Adrienne, it’s the start of a new life. For Nell, it’s the reason the two of them are sitting in a therapist’s office. Because she can’t go into this without dealing with the truth: that she has been a mother before, and now she can hardly bring herself to speak to her own mother, let alone return home to Ireland.
Nell is running out of places to hide from her past.
But to Ireland and the past is where she must go, and that is where The Amendments takes us: to the heat of Nell’s teenage years in the early 2000s, as Ireland was unpicking itself from its faith and embracing the hedonism of the Celtic Tiger. To 1983, when Nell’s mother Dolores was grappling with the tensions of the women’s rights movement. And then to the farms and suburbs and towns that made and unmade the lives at the centre of this story, bound together by the terrible secret that Nell still cannot face.
Selected by the Irish Independent, the Irish Times, the Irish Journal and VIP as one of the most anticipated novels of the year.
“Empathetic writing shines through in engaging debut”
- The Irish Examiner“A questing first novel of significant prowess . . . Mulvey touches on complex questions of belonging, freedom and motherhood”
- The Observer“The Amendments is an opening salvo from a novelist of grit and power”
- The Irish Times“Empathetic writing shines through in engaging debut”
- The Irish Examiner“Elegant prose and an earnest engagement with emotional integrity are the hallmarks of this engrossing coming-of-age tale . . . The novel brims with drama and dilemmas as Nell and her mother together tackle the thorny issues of faith, freedom and feminism in a cloistered society”
- Mail on Sunday“Niamh Mulvey's wonderfully compelling characters and deft, clear prose offer great pleasure to the reader. Her sense of political and cultural change is sharp, and the beauty she finds in days of struggle is haunting.”
- Joseph O'Connor, author of My Father's House and Star of the Sea“I loved The Amendments by Niamh Mulvey. Rare is the novel that is as significant as it is enjoyable: her characters glimmer with heart and soul, her writing is beautiful and her themes profound. It's a book about mothers and daughters, friendship, hope, bravery and what it means to believe in something. A fantastic and important achievement.”
- Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters“A smart, subtle, engrossing and moving novel that gives voice to so much that's unspoken about Ireland and about youth.”
- Emma Donoghue, playwright and literary scholar“An extraordinary achievement. The Amendments is about a lot of things - love, family, girlhood, growing up, sex, legacy, compassion - all blended into a moving plot, expertly handled. Wonderful.”
- Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist“There’s so much casually imparted wisdom in Mulvey’s writing that reading her work feels as if you’ve been through therapy without realising it. The Amendments is a compelling, beautifully observed novel about the long reach of shame in the lives of Irish women across generations.”
- Sarah Gilmartin, author of Service“Niamh Mulvey has written a deft and deeply moving fiction about cross-generational secrets and longings, because such is the stuff of our everyday, dramatic, secretive lives. This is a work of beauty and insight.”
- Ed O'Loughlin, author of Not Untrue and Not Unkind“It is a long time since I’ve read a more involving novel. The Amendments is ambitious in its political thought, but also intimate and rooted in compelling relationships...Niamh Mulvey’s powerful novel takes Ireland’s constitution changes, the amendments of the title, and shows what had to go on in ordinary homes across the country for them to happen; Irish people – perhaps most especially women – were trying to shake off inherited values.”
- Garrett Carr
Author: Niamh Mulvey
Genres: Literary Fiction
Hearts and Bones is a book about relationships. It explores what love does to us, and how we survive it.
A young woman learns to wield her power, leaving casualties in her wake, while a man from a small town finds solace in a strange new hobby. A watchful child feels a breaking point approach as her mother struggles to keep her life on track, and another daughter steps onto a stage while her family in the audience hope that she is strong enough now to take on the world.
First-time lovers make mistakes, brothers and sisters try to forgive one another, and parents struggle and fail and struggle again. Teenage souls are swayed by euphoric faith in a higher power and then by devotion to desire, trapped between different notions of what might be true. Quiet revolutions happen in living rooms, on river banks, in packed pubs and empty churches, and years later we wonder why we ever did the things we did.
Set between Ireland and London in the first two decades of this millennium, the stories in Hearts and Bones, Niamh Mulvey’s debut collection, look at the changes that have torn through these times and ask who we are now that we’ve brought the old gods down. Witty, sharply observed and deeply moving, these ten stories announce an extraordinary new Irish literary talent.
“Astute, surprising and wholly entertaining . . . There is a rich wit at play, Mulvey is an adept practitioner”
- The Irish Independent“Mulvey is masterful in her brevity, conjuring the light and dark from seemingly ordinary situations with the penning of a single, pointed detail. Rich but simple language creates a tug of war between spiky, sharp observations and moments of clarity and softness”
- RTÉ Culture“Highly accomplished, inventive . . . What stands out is Mulvey's command of her own originality . . . Though a debut writer, Mulvey is coming in at a high level with a book that delivers much and promises more”
- The Irish Times“Marvellous . . . A short and sweet debut collection brimming with poised assurance . . . Mulvey is an extremely talented writer”
- Business Post“Filled with astute observations on human relationships...”
- TLS“These stories are vivid, memorable and beautifully crafted. I was delighted to discover Niamh Mulvey’s work.”
- Sarah Moss“A brilliant collection, from a remarkable talent. These powerful stories come to us zinging with truth and wit, with pain and insight and joy.”
- Joseph O’Connor“A hugely impressive debut that pivots on tiny moments rendered large, with such skill. Panoramic, precise, written in controlled, stunning prose.”
- Sinéad Gleeson“Honest, daringly fresh and stunningly written, these stories cut right to the very essence of what it means to be young.”
- Jan Carson“Mulvey's precision, humour and economy are a kind of close up magic, albeit one that kicks you in the heart. Monolithic themes brought to a shimmering, livid clarity. Exceptional.”
- Rhik Samadder, author of I Never Said I Loved You“Niamh Mulvey's stories are compassionate yet unflinchingly honest. She is a remarkable new talent with a distinctive voice and viewpoint. I can't wait to read more of her work.”
- Jane Casey“Using crisp prose and, it seems, almost total recall, Niamh Mulvey's stories chronicle a changing Ireland. Hearts and Bones is a terrific debut collection from a writer full of promise.”
- Sinéad Crowley“Read Hearts and Bones to see a microcosm view of changing culture in the 21st Century, keenly expressed through relatable characters and relationships we don't always see both sides of.”
- Mslexia“A brilliant collection, from a remarkable talent. These powerful stories come to us zinging with truth and wit, with pain and insight and joy.”
- Joseph O’Connor“In Hearts and Bones, Niamh Mulvey demonstrates that she is a brilliant anatomist of shame and longing. This is a book to relish”
- Tomiwa Owolade, Sunday Times journalist
Author: Niamh Mulvey
Genres: Literary Fiction
It was almost midday on the second day of our trip by the time I started feeling truly murderous towards Mother.
For sixty-year-old crime writer Pat, her mother’s relentless cruelty and self-obsession have cast a long shadow over her life. Words are Pat’s gift, but Mother’s weapon, and Pat is reaching breaking point. She’s afraid of what she might do.
And then, suddenly, Mother is gone. The spell is lifted and Pat’s life is transformed. Graham, her devoted former lover, re-enters her life, and Cynthia, the sister Pat never knew she had, appears from nowhere. But things aren’t quite right. Graham is holding his cards suspiciously close to his chest and Cynthia remains mysterious, and bears an unsettling resemblance to Mother herself.
Desperate to make sense of the shifting ground beneath her, Pat begins to write a memoir, trying to untangle her own voice from the insistent echo of her mother’s. But in a world where everyone is carrying secrets, and no one is telling the whole story, how can she hope to get close to the truth? Words are weapons, and Mother seems to be having the last word even now . . .
Sharp as a knife and impossibly stylish, Mother Made Me is a game of hidden truths. This is not a whodunit, it’s a who-knows-whodunit.