Join Us in Carrickfergus Library for this special author visit! Bernie McGill’s publications include novels The Butterfly Cabinet (2010) and The Watch House (2017) and a short story collection, Sleepwalkers (2013), shortlisted for the Edge…
As part of the Rathlin Sound Maritime Festival, author Bernie McGill is hosting a free writing workshop in the Parochial Hall on Rathlin Island on Wednesday 29th May from 11am-1pm. No previous experience required.…
In the Victorian era, women were forced to endure many inequalities in terms of marriage, finances and social status. Viewed as belonging to the domestic sphere, they were expected to provide their husbands with…
The Italian translation of The Watch House is published by Bollati Boringhieri on 30th August 2018. Translated by Simona Garavelli, it appears under the title Le parole nell’aria (The Words in the Air). On…
The weather in these parts has the distinct feel of Autumn about it just now, a season I always associate with the true beginning of the year. It’s probably got a lot to do…
The Watch House, a novel set on Rathlin in the years of Marconi’s early wireless experiments is a gripping story about the power of words to connect us, and the power of suspicion to…
Now that the dust has settled a little on the publication of The Watch House, I thought it would be a good time for an update. Here are some upcoming events. It would be…
Bernie McGill is the author of two novels and one short story collection. She has written audio scripts for heritage projects and stage scripts for theatre. ‘Beautiful and lyrical, tender and fierce; one of…
Bernie McGill is the author of two novels and one short story collection. She has written audio scripts for heritage projects and stage scripts for theatre. Bernie was born in Lavey in County Derry…
‘Beautiful and lyrical, tender and fierce; one of those rare novels, with the power to break you clean in two.’ Guinevere Glasfurd, author of the Costa shortlisted The Words in My Hand. ‘McGill writes…
