Mark O’Connell on £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize shortlistRivals include Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing and Nigerian novelist Ayobami AdebayoTue Mar 20 2018 - 00:01
YA fiction reviews: from suffragettes to spiesNew releases make the most of International Women’s Day with plenty of female storiesSat Mar 17 2018 - 00:00
Want to know about Ireland now? Here are the books to readA Minister, a historian and 13 Irish writers select the modern works - from Ross O'Carroll-Kelly to Donal Ryan - that capture for them the state of the countryFri Mar 16 2018 - 12:00
Man Booker International: Irish translator has two books on listFrank Wynne’s translations of Javier Cercas’s The Impostor and Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex 1 up for £50,000 prizeMon Mar 12 2018 - 14:00
‘Val Mulkerns wrote like a fighter’: Irish authors pay tributeSebastian Barry, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, Joseph O’Connor, Mary O’Donnell, Carlo Gébler, Helena Mulkerns, Ita Daly and Dermot Bolger pay tribute to the leading author, who has died, aged 93Mon Mar 12 2018 - 10:31
‘She just can’t be gone.’ Tributes to ‘warrior’ Emma Hannigan‘Emma was the epitome of strength, love and generosity, beyond anything I have known’Mon Mar 05 2018 - 10:44
Chilling thrillers and stone cold classics to read on World Book DayAs Storm Emma has us all under curfew, we list some great books to read by the fireThu Mar 01 2018 - 12:34
Edna O’Brien: Lolita author Nabokov was ‘scathing of women’‘Country Girls’ author on ‘our unhinged times’ as she receives $50,000 Pen awardWed Feb 21 2018 - 09:00
Love poems: ‘For one night only naked in your arms’ – 14 poets pick their favourites'It was Yeats’s lessons in lovesex that hit home': poets on their favourite love poems for St Valentine’s DayWed Feb 14 2018 - 06:00
Travels through Dictatorland: how African despots cling to powerHumane, timely and accessible work shines a light on urgent African issuesSat Feb 10 2018 - 06:00
Three Irish writers on £30,000 Wellcome Prize longlistBernard MacLaverty, Maggie O’Farrell and Mark O’Connell on 12-strong longlist for prize celebrating books about health and medicineThu Feb 08 2018 - 12:00
Tributes pour in for much-loved writer Philip Casey (67)Author of acclaimed Bann trilogy and four poetry collections was at the heart of Irish literary worldMon Feb 05 2018 - 12:46
Baileys origin story is cream of Irish Times Books in 2017A look at the 10 most popular literary articles of the yearFri Dec 22 2017 - 15:55
Something to smile about: Roddy Doyle is still our favourite Irish authorTicket Awards 2017: ‘Smile’, Doyle’s powerful story of a middle-aged Dubliner dealing with memories of abuse, has topped our inaugural books poll – and the critics loved it tooSat Dec 16 2017 - 05:00
Fiction, history, humour, emotion: The best books of 2017You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn stuff ... Writers name their favourite works of the yearSat Dec 09 2017 - 06:00
Oh My God! Aisling authors sign six-figure deal and film could be nextCúirt highlights; major Seamus Heaney exhibition; book deals for Niamh Boyce and debut author from DerryThu Dec 07 2017 - 15:23
Ticket Awards 2017: The best books of the yearHere are our best reads of the last yearSat Dec 02 2017 - 06:00
Mountains to Sea festival highlights revealedIrish Times Poetry Now Award judges namedSat Dec 02 2017 - 06:00
Book Quiz: Philip Roth’s middle name and Synge’s island?10 bookish brain teasersSat Dec 02 2017 - 00:00
Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards winners revealedBernard MacLaverty, Marian Keyes and Atlas of the Irish Revolution get the big breaksWed Nov 29 2017 - 00:00
Patrick Kavanagh remembered: O shiny great soul of MonaghanLeading poets and writers take a fresh look at the writer on the 50th anniversary of his deathSat Nov 25 2017 - 06:00
Eoin McHugh to be HarperCollins’ publishing director in IrelandEavan Boland is to receive Bob Hughes Lifetimes Achievement Award at Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book AwardsThu Nov 23 2017 - 12:00
Three Irish writers on Costa Book Award shortlistsKarl Geary, Sarah Crossan and Sinéad Morrissey among nominationsTue Nov 21 2017 - 19:30
The Book Quiz: ‘Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man’Seamus Heaney’s biographer, Goldsmith Prize winner, and who wrote ‘The Birds’Sat Nov 18 2017 - 06:00
Nicola Barker wins Goldsmiths Prize with H(a)ppyPrize dominated by Irish writers goes to English author for first timeWed Nov 15 2017 - 20:00
Eithne Shortall signs six-figure US deal for second novelSunday Times chief arts writer’s debut also optioned for TV series by NBC Universal StudiosTue Nov 14 2017 - 12:15
Fintan O’Toole to write Seamus Heaney’s official biographyFaber announces ‘Irish Times’ columnist to write Nobel Prize-winning poet’s authorised lifeTue Nov 14 2017 - 08:00
Nom nom nom de plume: Irish writers on foodFood Month: Henrietta McKervey, Rob Doyle, Danielle McLaughlin, Ian Duhig, Paula McGrath, Jo Spain and Martina Evans share favourite recipes and storiesMon Nov 13 2017 - 12:30
Picador to publish Sinéad Gleeson’s debut essay collectionAnyone who has read her Granta essays, ‘Blue Hills and Chalk Bones’ and ‘Second Mother’, will be impatient to read moreSat Nov 11 2017 - 06:00
The Book Quiz: How many outings did Harry Hole have before ‘The Snowman’?Also: women in translation, a literary dog’s name, and where the Dickens is Diogenes?Sat Oct 28 2017 - 06:00
John Banville is knighted by ItalyLeading Irish author made Cavaliere of the Ordine della Stella d’Italia at Italian embassy ceremonyWed Oct 25 2017 - 13:42
The Book Quiz: The weight of history – how many kgs exactly?Also: a host of prizewinners and the only Irish-language No1 bestseller are among this week's gemsSat Oct 21 2017 - 16:07
Dracula gets his day in the sunPoets shortlisted for TS Eliot and Warwick Prizes; Dublin Book Festival highlights; Something WickedSat Oct 21 2017 - 06:00
Sarah Davis-Goff and Cecelia Ahern sign major book dealsTinder Press buys Tramp publisher’s post-apocalyptic Irish novel. TV rights already sold for Ahern’s 30 women’s storiesThu Oct 12 2017 - 11:26
Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize in LiteratureAuthor is best known for novel ‘The Remains of the Day’Thu Oct 05 2017 - 12:11
Galway writer signs six-figure dealEd O’Loughlin and Sara Baume shortlisted for major awards; BBC to adapt Tana French novels for Dublin Murders TV seriesWed Oct 04 2017 - 16:00
Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty is October’s Irish Times Book Club pickEdgar Award-winning thriller is fifth in Sean Duffy series about a Catholic RUC manMon Oct 02 2017 - 16:03
Sinéad Morrissey wins £10,000 Forward poetry prizeArmagh poet wins Best Collection prize for ‘On Balance’. Ocean Vuong and Ian Patterson also honouredThu Sept 21 2017 - 21:30
What JP Donleavy did best was the desperate melancholy of men in their primeTributes: John Banville, Kevin Barry, Donal Ryan, Pat McCabe, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and others assess ‘The Ginger Man’ authorThu Sept 14 2017 - 16:35
Two female debut authors shortlisted for Man Booker prizeIrish authors Mike McCormack and Sebastian Barry fail to make cutWed Sept 13 2017 - 10:36
Niall MacMonagle honoured; Maeve Binchy festival; Belfast crime fiction eventIrish literary news: Culture Night; Sounds from a Safe Harbour; Dromineer Literary Festival; Patrick Kavanagh weekend; HomePlace events; Dublin Festival of HistoryFri Sept 08 2017 - 15:51
Inch Levels by Neil Hegarty is September’s Irish Times Book Club pickA powerful debut novel set in the landscapes of Ireland’s northern borderlandsFri Sept 01 2017 - 05:50
Irish Times Book Club podcast with Shane ConnaughtonThe Oscar-winning screenwriter and author discusses his career including Married Quarters, his long-awaited sequel to A Border StationThu Aug 31 2017 - 10:21
A Q&A with ‘Kill All Normies’ author Angela Nagle‘Literary people are much more open to complexity than political people. Political online commentary is just a cesspit for the unhappy’Tue Aug 22 2017 - 12:29
Louise O’Neill takes on The Little MermaidWild Words festival; John Toomey wins award; Irish Pages at Seamus Heaney HomePlaceThu Jul 27 2017 - 06:00
Man Booker prize 2017: Irish authors Sebastian Barry and Mike McCormack on longlistPair have already won awards for their listed novels, ‘Days Without End’ and ‘Solar Bones’Thu Jul 27 2017 - 00:01
Married Quarters by Shane Connaughton this summer’s Irish Times Book Club pickThe sequel to his acclaimed 1989 debut is set in a Garda station in Cavan in late 1950sTue Jul 18 2017 - 17:30
What are Anne Enright, John Boyne and others reading this Summer?Some of Ireland’s best-known writers and readers share the books that will be in their suitcasesWed Jul 05 2017 - 06:00
