Cinders Zine

Category: Recommended reads

Finding her voice – an interview with Louise O’Neill

In anticipation of the release of Louise O’Neill’s feminist retelling of The Little Mermaid, The Surface Breaks, we spoke to Louise about re-inventing fairytales, feminism, and the importance of owning your voice. Why did you choose The Little Mermaid as inspiration for The Surface Breaks? Louise: Well, it was the summer of 2016 when the…

May 11, 2018
Recommended Reads: Frances Hardinge, Seanan Maguire, Joanne M Harris

A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge Following on from the success of The Lie Tree, A Skinful of Shadows is Frances Hardinge’s next big hit. A Skinful of Shadows is a dark YA historical fantasy set in the early part of the English Civil War. Makepeace is an illegitimate daughter of the aristocratic Fellmotte…

March 14, 2018
Happy International Women’s Day! Cinders Reading List

Happy international women’s day to all of the friends, mothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, co-workers, inspirations and activists out there! You all inspire us daily and make us take pride in who we are and make us choose who we want to be. This year our thanks go out to all of the brave women…

March 8, 2018
Recommended Reads: JK Rowling, Aline Brosh McKenna, Anna Marie McLemore

First published in Cinders Magazine Volume one Issue Six Cormoran Strike Series What with the BBC’s recent release of Strike: The Cuckcoo’s Calling and Strike: The Silkworm, we decided to revisit JK Rowling’s fantastic detective series. Writing as Robert Galbraith the series follows veteran private detective Cormoran Strike and his intelligent partner, Robin Ellacott. Rowling’s…

February 28, 2018
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!

February 13, 2018
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…

December 6, 2017
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…

October 10, 2017
Unusual Beauties and their Beasts continued

First published in Cinders issue three What with the new adaptation of Beauty and the Beast hitting our screens earlier in the year it got us here in Cinders thinking about some of our favourite unconventional interpretations of the classic fairytale. Méabh McDonnell looks at the ways the tale as old as time can be interpreted.

September 12, 2017
Beauties and their Beasts

First published in Cinders issue three What with the new adaptation of Beauty and the Beast hitting our screens earlier in the year it got us here in Cinders thinking about some of our favourite unconventional interpretations of the classic fairytale. Méabh McDonnell looks at the ways the tale as old as time can be interpreted.…

September 5, 2017
Recommended Reads: Lauren Nicolle Taylor, Moira Fowley Doyle, Renée Ahdieh

Here are what Cinders magazine’s writers are reading this month!

August 23, 2017