Cinders Zine

Category: Books and Authors

  • Cinders Galentine’s Celebration Package!

    Cinders Galentine’s Celebration Package!

    Cinders has put together the best the internet has to offer in free content that will give you your perfect Galentine’s Day!

  • Best books of 2017 part two

      The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo Leigh Bardugo is a perennial favourite of ours in Cinders, we really enjoyed her Six of Crows series and her recent Wonder Woman story Warbringer has been hailed as one of the best ever renditions of Diana of Thymiscera. The Language of Thorns however is somehting different, …

  • Best books of 2017 part one

    Turtles all the way down by John Green You’d have to be living under a large and leafy rock not to know that John Green (of Fault in our Stars and Vlogbrothers fame) has released a new book this October. Turtles all the Way Down is the newest volume about an unusual girl trying to…

  • Bell, book and candle – interview with Moïra Fowley Doyle

    Magic, mysticism and mystery are at the core of Moïra Fowley-Doyle’s novels, The Accident Season and this year’s The Spellbook of the Lost and Found. Set in rural Ireland they take normal girls and unravel the secrets of their past and defeat the demons of their present with spells, enchantment and dreams. We chatted to…

  • Tells a thousand words – Interview with Karen Vaughan

    Fairytales are a central part of our culture, from when we are very young they are some of the first stories that we encounter. The illustrations that accompany them are also some of the first art that we see. The art that has accompanied those tales is distinctive and tells its own story. Karen Vaughen’s…

  • To the waters and the wild – Interview with Deirdre Sullivan

    Winner of the YA Book of the Year, Deirdre Sullivan, spoke with Cinders magazine about Tangleweed and Brine in October. Deirdre Sullivan is no stranger to the Irish YA literary scene what with her fabulous novel Needlework, and her Prim Improper series. Her new collection Tangleweed and Brine is something different, a set of feminist…

  • Competition Giveaway! Win a copy of Owning It by Caroline Foran!

    Competition Giveaway! Win a copy of Owning It by Caroline Foran!

    We are delighted to announce that thanks to the wonderful Caroline Foran and the kind people at Hachette Books Ireland Cinders have four copies of Caroline Foran’s Owning It. We’ll be reviewing Owning It in our next issue of Cinders and would like to give you a chance to get your own copy. For those…

  • It’s a Witches World!

    It’s a Witches World!

    Happy Halloween to one and all! And for the day that’s in it, we’ve decided to publish our favourite witches article from volume one issue six! Halloween is our absolute favourite time of year in Cinders. We love the masks, the dressing up and the very scary stories. But the best thing might just be,…

  • What we’re reading: Stephanie Garber, Sara Pascoe, Jane Austen, and Jo Baker

    What we’re reading: Stephanie Garber, Sara Pascoe, Jane Austen, and Jo Baker

    Caraval by Stephanie Garber Caraval is a book that has been all over my ‘recommended reads’ lists for months now. I finally picked up a copy to see what all of the hype was about. Billed as being similar to Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus Caraval tells the story of two sisters who are invited…

  • Feminism Forwards – An interview with Rosita Sweetman

    First published in Cinders issue three We had the pleasure of speaking with author, writer and feminist Rosita Sweetman. Author of Father’s Come First – which we reviewed in issue two of Cinders – Rosita gave us her impression of feminism today, how it has changed since Ireland of the 70s. What with the strides…