Joy Martin

joy-photo-277x300Ireland’s first woman news journalist, Joy Martin was born in Limerick.

She has worked on The Limerick Weekly Echo; The Evening Press, Dublin; Zambia Radio and Television; The Rand Daily Mail in Johannesbuirg and BBC Home News and World Service.

Her first book, TWELVE SHADES OF BLACK, a series of interviews with black people living under apartheid in the townships around Johannesburg, incurred the wrath of racists – and the admiration of the liberal Press.

Her meticulously researched novels depict the landed Catholic families of the south-west of Ireland, their relationships with their Protestant settler neighbours and the part they played in the lead-up to Independence.

Mysteries and murder stories, they often focus on the theme of inherited wrong.

She lives in south-west France.

BOOKS BY JOY MARTIN

Joy Martin’s books are published by Lume Books UK and are available on Amazon in paperback or on kindle.

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