Brought to Book: Sheila Agnew on Middlemarch’s wisdom and the title that brought her homeThe rewards of being a writer outweigh the wages she earned as a Manhattan lawyerThu May 22 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book: Laura Dockrill on the BFG, Struwwelpeter and why dead drunk men are her ideal dinner party guests‘I see my writing as completely creative and free-flowing. I try not to attack it like work’Wed May 21 2014 - 11:31
The F word: Failure is theme of this weekend’s Children’s Books Ireland conferenceEoin Colfer, the new Laureate na nOg, to give his first public addressWed May 21 2014 - 11:03
Brought to Book: Anakana Schofield on parallel reading, the literary patriarchy and books as portals‘I write in a very troubling manner that I wouldn’t advise anyone to adopt’Mon May 19 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book: Joseph O’Connor on why reading is a more creative act than writing‘If there is a Hell being prepared for me, it will be a dinner party. But I’d like to be in a bar, late at night in New York, with Colm Toibin, Patti Smith, Dickens, St John of the Cross, Toni Morrison, Keats and Emily Bronte, with her brother Branwell leading the singsong while arm-wrestling’Fri May 16 2014 - 12:00
Brought to Book: RTÉ’s Sinead Crowley on her debut novel and literary lovesI didn’t set out to write a book in a particular genre but there are a lot of ‘domestic noir’ books being written at the moment, psychological thrillers aimed primarily at women, and my book falls into that categoryMon May 12 2014 - 15:38
Debutant Irish author wins children’s book prizeErika McCann scoops Waverton Good Read Children’s AwardFri May 09 2014 - 14:46
Joseph O’Connor shortlisted for comic novel of the yearSebastian Faulks, Hanif Kureishi and Helen Fielding are rivals for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse PrizeTue May 06 2014 - 23:59
Hubert Mingarelli bares his literary soulThe French author has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014 for ‘A Meal in Winter’, an elegant meditation on the HolocaustMon May 05 2014 - 01:00
Hiromi Kawakami briefs us on her literary lifeJapanese author has been shortlisted for 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeMon May 05 2014 - 01:00
Irish authors step out of James Joyce’s shadow to take on DublinersAdaptations by Pat McCabe, Donal Ryan, Eimear McBride, John Boyne and Paul Murray mark centenary of publicationWed Apr 30 2014 - 15:54
Brought to Book: Linda Spalding on her literary life‘I had to remould my brain to write “The Follow”. It involved three trips to Borneo and years of reading and studying and thinking hard about human beings and our place in the natural world’Mon Apr 28 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book: Sinan Antoon on his literary lifeLiterature touches the lives of fellow humans in a very visceral wayMon Apr 21 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book: Andrej Longo on his literary lifeReviews are essential. I enjoy looking at my book as if I were another personMon Apr 14 2014 - 15:03
First-time Irish authors rise to top of Baileys shortlistAudrey Magee and Eimear McBride in running for £30,000 prizeMon Apr 07 2014 - 19:15
Brought to Book: Laura Lippman on our hunger for meaningFormer reporter says novelists make a fetish of research – ‘it’s not that hard’Mon Apr 07 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book: Birgit Vanderbeke on her literary life‘I read the most important books when I was young. That’s probably because reading plays a bigger role when you are growing up. It has never regained the same importance for me since then’Mon Mar 31 2014 - 01:00
What books define Ireland for you?A new book lists 31 definitive texts. Are the authors right? And what should be the 32nd?Wed Mar 26 2014 - 15:21
Brought to book: John BanvilleThe first in a new weekly series interrogating authors about all things literary: ‘I should have made it all up. The world imagined is always more convincing than the world researched’Thu Mar 13 2014 - 06:00
Miscarriage of justice made into a masterpieceLast in trilogy of literary thrillers exploring North’s dark underbellySat Mar 01 2014 - 01:00
Funny and frank: a worthy hitTracey Thorn tops the charts with a memoir of her career with Everything But the GirlTue Feb 25 2014 - 14:46
NI Arts Council funds Lough Derg: the musical and Hurricane Higgins: the novelColin Bateman and Eoin McNamee among four artists to receive £15,000 awardsMon Feb 24 2014 - 16:04
Harry Potter-style hysteria predicted for release of Morrissey’s autobiography480-page book to come out in paperback as a Penguin ClassicFri Oct 04 2013 - 13:51
Irish novel shortlisted for prize after years of rejectionsEimear McBride’s ‘A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing’ deals with familiar themes in an innovative wayTue Oct 01 2013 - 13:24
Davy Byrnes short story competition returnsFormer winner Anne Enright among judges for €15,000 prizeMon Sept 23 2013 - 15:50
Three Irish novelists on tenterhooks over Booker shortlistDonal Ryan, Colm Tóibín and Colum McCann hope to be among six nomineesMon Sept 09 2013 - 22:15
Traditional music meets futuristic online teachingSome of Ireland’s best trad musicians are teaching students around the world via SkypeSat Mar 09 2013 - 00:00
Guidelines could prove last straw for church cribsHard on the heels of the pope controversially questioning the biblical basis for having donkeys and oxen in Nativity scenes, …Mon Dec 31 2012 - 00:00
Clutter turns to cash as buy and sell sites give shopping a faceliftThe latest social media shopping phenomenon is an online version of the car boot saleSat Nov 24 2012 - 00:00
Irish recession is music to Londoners' earsIRELAND’S DIFFICULTY is England’s opportunityFri Mar 11 2011 - 00:00
How cutting cabbages forged a future of fantastic proportionsDerek Landy, whose book ‘Skulduggery Pleasant’ has been voted Irish Book of the Decade, spent six years working on his family…Wed Jun 02 2010 - 01:00
'Irish Post' co-founder and former editor dies aged 73BREANDÁN MAC LUA, who co-founded the Irish Post newspaper in London in 1970 and edited it for its first 18 years, has died after…Thu Jan 15 2009 - 00:00
George Morrison: reel hero of Irish historyNo Irish film-maker has shed more light for less money on Ireland's history than George Morrison, writes Martin DoyleFri Jan 04 2008 - 00:00
