Author Niamh Mulvey: ‘I remember the miracle of letters turning into words for the first time’

Niamh Mulvey's debut novel 'The Amendments' is out soon

Niamh Mulvey was born in Kilkenny and has recently returned there having worked in publishing in London. Her first book of stories, Hearts & Bones, was published to great acclaim in 2022. Her debut novel, The Amendments, explores the lives of three generations of Irish women bookended by the constitutional amendments of 1983 and 2015 and is published next Thursday by Picador.

The books on your bedside table? My bedside table is a pile of books so there are a lot. But the tops ones are ­Peter ­Pomerantsev’s How to Win an ­Information War: The ­Propagandist who Outwitted Hitler (please, BBC, option this), Sinéad ­Gleeson’s Hagstone and the new standalone thriller by Mick Herron, The Secret Hours. It’s a bit slower than his Slow Horses books [the Slough House series] but full of his trademark London-weariness and petty workplace inertia. It’s great.