Like most writers I didn’t take the direct route into publishing, I gained an Honours Degree in English Literature and Psychology from Dublin City University and a Postgraduate Degree from University College, Galway. I have worked in all sorts of jobs, as a fashion model, an event’s organizer and in the intellectual disability and mental health sector. The constant throughout has been a love of books! I have read and written all of my life.
I was a winner in the 2014 Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair – an international
competition for emerging writers, the feedback was very positive and
complimentary and suddenly, there were possibilities beyond just scribbling a few
lines here and a few lines there.
In 2018 I was selected as a Words Ireland winner in the DWAD afternoon – this
opened up opportunities among writers and film directors and it was an honor to
be one of the final winners.
In 2019 I was honored and delighted to win Mayo Business Woman of the Year
(Arts) in the Network Ireland Business Woman of the Year Awards.
My contemporary fiction novels have achieved top ten best seller status across the US, UK, Australia and Canada. My Husbands Wives was a top ten bestseller in
Ireland on its trade paper back release. The Ladies Midnight Swimming Club –
reached the overall No 1 position in the Amazon UK charts and has spent weeks
sitting pretty in the top overall books sold and read on Amazon. Its available in e-
book and in all good bookshops. All of my novels can be found in large print and
audio formats also. You can order most formats through your local library.
There have been many highs along the way, when the books featured as Book Club Favorites, Net Galley Hot Reads and Summer Must Reads. Being chosen as a
summer must read never gets old!
In 2024 The Bookshop Ladies was shortlisted for An Post Book Award.
I also write crime fiction novels under the name Geraldine Hogan. My Corbally
series, set in Limerick is published by Bookouture.
I am a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines and short story
compilations.
I am currently working on edits and an idea for a new contemporary fiction novel. I live in the west of Ireland with my husband – Mr H, our family and the best
chocolate Labrador in the world. (I might be a bit biased on that last piece!)
Latest News
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Count Down….
People have told me that there is no greater excitement than that first book coming out and I’ve always, thought, yeah, sure. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I was over the moon to sign up with Aria Fiction. It was like a dream come true, in many ways. That first wave of euphoria, I…
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Most Popular Book in Ireland 2015
The Girl on the Train. By Paula Hawkins. Last summer, absolutely everyone was talking about ‘The Girl on the Train.’ The novel that seemed to come from nowhere described as a debut has surprised the book selling world like an un-scheduled train speeding along with no stop signal in sight. The writer, Sophie Hawkins…
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The Books You Read…
In an effort to stay on top of the whole blogging thing and not alienate the people around me by causing them to be the centre of all things in this space, I move onto the books! I mean, the books — the one’s that made a difference. The one’s that made us who we…
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Blog Tour Details
So, we are going on tour! I’m posting this without dates, because as yet, the dates have to be agreed, but more to come…
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Introducing — The Publicist…
So… This was a big week for Faith Hogan. On Thursday evening, Mr H got a very excited call from one of my favourite H cousins down in Limerick – Marcella H, (book lover, dote and all round good egg) she had pre-ordered ‘My Husband’s Wives,’ from Amazon. Oh, how we all dashed to computer…