An artist's novel that makes us pause and thinkFICTION : Submergence By JM Ledgard Cape, 191pp. £16.99Sat Jul 16 2011 - 01:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryCARLINGFORD, Co Louth, situated on a fjord-like sea inlet on the beautiful Carlingford Lough is a fine place to be on a summer…Tue Jul 12 2011 - 01:00
The telling of a great story - taken for grantedFICTION: Noon By Aatish Taseer, Picador, 298pp. £12.99Sat Jul 09 2011 - 01:00
The mind behind strange, Gothic GormenghastA hundred years ago tomorrow, Mervyn Laurence Peake, the author of the ‘Gormenghast’ trilogy, was bornFri Jul 08 2011 - 01:00
In the footsteps of the masterFICTION : Foreign Bodies , By Cynthia Ozick, Atlantic, 255pp. £16.99Sat Jul 02 2011 - 01:00
A gloriously intelligent coming of age storyFICTION: Child Wonder By Roy Jacobsen, translated by Don Bartlett with Don Shaw Maclehose Press, 264pp. £15.99Sat Jun 25 2011 - 01:00
Locked-in syndromeFICTION: There But For The , By Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton, 356pp, £16.99Sat Jun 18 2011 - 01:00
Irish writer wins €100,000 Impac literary prizeTHE INTERNATIONAL Impac Dublin Literary Award, worth €100,000, was last night presented, for the second time in the award’s history…Thu Jun 16 2011 - 01:00
The writer who moved on from himselfPROFILE: PHILIP ROTH: He is accused of being sexist, but the winner of the international Booker prize has proved his literary…Sat May 21 2011 - 01:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryIRELAND extended a sophisticated welcome to Queen Elizabeth II and she in turn did more good for the international reputation…Sat May 21 2011 - 01:00
The girl who cried WoolfMEMOIR: To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface By Olivia Laing Canongate, 285pp. £16.99Sat May 21 2011 - 01:00
A hero a century in the makingThe Tunnel By Ernesto Sábato, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden Penguin Modern Classics, 140pp, £8.99Sat May 14 2011 - 01:00
William Trevor makes an ImpacThere are exceptional novels on this year’s shortlist for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award but, as always with such…Tue Apr 12 2011 - 01:00
Astute selections on Listowel Irish fiction shortlistHOMETOWN OF John B Keane and Bryan McMahon, Listowel, Co Kerry, is also host to one of Ireland’s most established arts festivals…Wed Apr 06 2011 - 01:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryIT COMES IN a cigarette carton, perhaps the largest single carton ever devisedTue Mar 29 2011 - 01:00
From chatty comments to chilling observationsFICTION : Long Time, No See By Dermot Healy Faber, 438pp. £12.99Sat Mar 26 2011 - 00:00
Outstanding novel born of the horror of VietnamFICTION: The Sentimentalists By Johanna Skibsrud Heinemann, 216pp. £12.99Sat Mar 12 2011 - 00:00
A dignified final scene as TP goes homeACTOR TP McKenna never forgot his native town of Mullagh, Co Cavan, and Mullagh never forgot himMon Feb 28 2011 - 00:00
The obsessiveness of the long-distance runnerFICTION: Running By Jean Echenoz Translated by Linda Coverdale (The New Press, 126pp. £12.57)Sat Feb 19 2011 - 00:00
PaperbacksTrick of the Dark, Earthly Powers, Connected: The Amazing Power of Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, John Milton: Life, Work and Thought, Cross Country Murder SongSat Feb 19 2011 - 00:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryIT is vital to avoid eye contact with the postman today, although, by now, he can recognise the signsMon Feb 14 2011 - 00:00
The rebirth of novels neglected and forgottenRe-issuing an overlooked novel with a new title and one strategic alteration can breathe new life into a fine book, as happened…Thu Jan 27 2011 - 00:00
Collection pips favourite to win Costa book awardLIFE STRETCHED to its limits of endurance and courage has again emerged as the defining theme in the outcome of the Costa Book…Wed Jan 26 2011 - 00:00
A calm, compelling novelFICTION: The Breakers By Claudie Gallay, translated by Alison Anderson MacLehose Press, 408pp. £ 14.99Sat Jan 22 2011 - 00:00
Mysterious, dark, rich in surprisesFICTION: Monsieur Pain By Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews Picador, 132pp. £14.99Sat Jan 15 2011 - 00:00
Sharp cold spell leaves horses exposedIT LOOKS magnificent: fields of snow, not a blade of grass to be seen – white as far as the eye can seeThu Dec 09 2010 - 00:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryFUNNY how many great thoroughbreds have names that begin with S – Sea the Stars, Sadler’s Wells, Storm Cat, Seattle Slew, Secretariat…Tue Dec 07 2010 - 00:00
Romantic fire from Russian golden ageThe music of Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, along with that of two of his most talented students, will be performed tonight in the …Fri Dec 03 2010 - 00:00
Faith and failureFICTION: The Bishop’s Man , By Linden MacIntyre, Cape, 399pp. £12.99Sat Nov 27 2010 - 00:00
Impressive, robust yet delicately told debutFICTION: As the Earth Turns Silver By Alison Wong, Picador, 272pp. £7.99Sat Nov 20 2010 - 00:00
Tantalising Impac longlist shows quality fiction is alive and wellThe world’s richest literary award lives up to its international billing with 162 nominees from five continents – including four…Mon Nov 15 2010 - 00:00
Pounding out fable and truth on his OlivettiMEMOIR: The Box By Günter Grass, translated by Krishna Winston Harvill Secker, 195pp. £16.99Sat Nov 06 2010 - 00:00
Caught up in a crazy danceFICTION: The End By Salvatore Scibona Cape, 294pp, £16.99Sat Oct 30 2010 - 01:00
Drawn togetherA history of the Water Colour Society of Ireland provides a collection of moments frozen in time, all connected to a pioneering…Sat Oct 23 2010 - 01:00
Dark horse Jacobson emerges to take prizeIn Jacobson, the Man Booker has a winner who has written a good novel not a great oneWed Oct 13 2010 - 01:00
Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize in literature for PeruABOUT THE only surprise attached to the announcement that Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, narrowly defeated liberal presidential…Fri Oct 08 2010 - 01:00
Women artists a feature of Slane saleAMONG THE array of valuable period furniture, military memorabilia, paintings, Georgian silver and glass on offer tomorrow in…Mon Oct 04 2010 - 01:00
Symmetry of natureFICTION : The Journey of Anders Sparrman: A Biographical Novel, by Per Wästberg, translated by Tom Geddes, Granta, 401pp, £18…Sat Oct 02 2010 - 01:00
Wry and politely burlesqueFICTION: The Finkler Question By Howard Jacobson, Bloomsbury, 307pp. £18.99Sat Aug 21 2010 - 01:00
Catastrophe on the horizonFICTION: Things We Didn’t See Coming, By Steven Amsterdam, Harvill Secker, 199pp, £12.99Sat Aug 14 2010 - 01:00
From a shout to a whisperOn the opening day of the Dublin Horse Show at the RDS yesterday, the legendary horse whisperer Monty Roberts gave the audience…Thu Aug 05 2010 - 01:00
'Horse whisperer' to demonstrate way of trustTRADITION IS married with innovation at this year’s Dublin Horse Show through the participation of the internationally famous…Tue Aug 03 2010 - 01:00
The search for salvation from sibling stalemateFICTION: Trespass By Rose Tremain Chatto, 253pp, £17.99Sat Jul 31 2010 - 01:00
Two Irish writers on Booker longlistALTHOUGH SERIOUSLY diminished by the surprise absence of Jon McGregor’s remarkable, politically charged third novel Even the …Wed Jul 28 2010 - 01:00
A wonderfully intense study of fearFICTION : The Sickness , by Alberto Barrera Tyszka, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, MacLehose Press, 151pp, £14.99Sat Jul 24 2010 - 01:00
Dauntingly gifted shaper of storiesFICTION: Lovesong By Alex Miller, Allen & Unwin, 354pp £12.99Sat Jul 17 2010 - 01:00
An uncompromising novel of alarming powerFICTION: Forgetting Zoe , By Ray Robinson Heinemann 277pp, £12.99Sat Jul 10 2010 - 01:00
