Fiction Archives - Katherine Dolan Writes

Talia Marshall on Whaea Blue

Fiction February 28, 2026

Talia Marshall's debut book Whaea Blue (2024) is a force of nature. Abandoning neutral expressions of praise, New Zealand's reviewers have spoken of it...

Touching Time With Anastasia Ames

Original Fiction July 4, 2025

This week, continuing my series of conversations on writers talking about their writing (see the previous conversation here), Anastasia Ames discusses her debut novel...

The Tear Bottle by Annemarie Jutel

Fiction Writing May 26, 2025

This post is the very first in a series of interviews I'm planning with talented storytellers about the creative process and also about how...

Ten Saudi Women Writers

Middle East June 5, 2023

This week, to celebrate the release of an audiobook version of Girls of the Empty Quarter (also published as Teacher, We Girls!), my memoir...

Rory Gallagher’s Hardboiled Blues

Detective Fiction June 1, 2021

Rory Gallagher, for those whose ears have not yet been blessed, was Ireland's Archdruid of bluesy rock, a virtuoso on the guitar, an electrifying...

A Mendoza Mystery

Original Fiction February 24, 2021

"I ought to begin by explaining just what I was doing in Argentina." Rashid Sharif said after setting down his wine glass with care...

The Missing Wife: A Murder Mystery

Original Fiction February 24, 2021

"Well, Arthur, what do you have for us this evening?" Ruth smiled toothily at the retired detective who sat at the head of the...

Multifarious Fausts

Fiction February 16, 2021

What with staying 'safe at home', freezing temperatures and 3pm sunsets, this autumn has been a great time for finally getting around to reading...

10 Online Literary Festivals for the End of 2020

Fiction February 24, 2021

The necessity of 'staying safe at home' has changed things. Even I, one of the least social people outside of cave-dwelling hermits, have occasionally...

Curses on Vases: Illustrated Agamemnon

Ancient October 30, 2020

The House of Atreus is cursed. I have been making my way through Louis MacNeice's 1939 translation of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, which is sometimes tough...

MacNeice in Ireland: A Prism of Delight & Pain

History January 2, 2021

Until recently, I knew three things about Louis MacNeice (1907-1963): that he was from Ireland, that he was friends with Auden and that he...

The Most Preposterous Mystery Novel Ever? Yes.

Detective Fiction September 10, 2020

Writing a mystery novel is a complicated proposition. There is much to consider. The sleuth should be human but not too human; the death(s)...