The Lisa Richards Agency

Roisin Meaney was born in Listowel, County Kerry, in the west of Ireland. She started her working life as a primary school teacher in 1980, but in 2001 she left the classroom for a year and travelled to San Francisco to write her first novel, The Daisy Picker, which won the ‘Write a Bestseller’ competition that Tivoli publishers were running to launch themselves. Seven years and five novels later, she gave up teaching to concentrate on fulltime writing.
To date she’s written seven adult novels and two children’s books. Three of her novels have made the top five in the Irish bestseller list, one going all the way to the top, and her writing has been translated into German, Spanish, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian. Her latest novel, Love in the Making, will be published in the US in early 2011 under the title Semi-Sweet. Her upcoming and seventh novel, The Things We Do for Love, will hit Irish bookshelves in February 2011, published by Hachette Books Ireland.
She currently lives in Limerick city with two cats, and she reads stories to small children every Saturday morning in Limerick city library at The Granary. Roisin would love to hear from readers and can be contacted through her website which also contains her blog – click here to visit her website.

Her novels include:
The Daisy Picker (Tivoli, 2004) (which won Tivoli’s Write a Bestseller competition), Blanvalet in Germany
Putting Out the Stars(Tivoli, 2005)
The Last Week of May (Hodder Headline 2007) which was a Number One Bestseller in Ireland. Published by Blanvalet in Germany
The People Next Door(Hachette 2008) which was an Irish top five bestseller for 5 weeks in 2008. Published by Thaning and Appel,Denmark
Half Seven on a Thursday, Hachette Ireland 2009 which was another top 10 ten
bestseller in Ireland; Thaning and Appel, Denmark.
Love in the Making, Hachette Ireland 2010; Grand Central Books, US, 2010.

For Children:
Don’t Even Think About It (O’Brien Press). She’s also co-written another children’s book See If I Care (O’Brien Press), with Judi Curtin

Anthologies:
She has also contributed a short story to Moments ( New Island Books), an anthology published as a fundraiser for GOAL’s tsunami relief fundraising.