Your first eight novels disappear into the ether. Then you strike gold
It’s no surprise that Virginia Evans has found huge success with The Correspondent, which is now up for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Eoin McNamee
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Anna Burns: ‘When I got damaged in surgery, nothing else mattered. I’ve always lived in survival mode’
The Booker Prize-winning author on writing through the pain, growing up in Belfast’s Murder Triangle and getting sober after leaving the ‘boozy’ city for London
Diagnosed with cancer at 18: ‘It was like, okay, the fun part of life is over’
The Sugartown author on invincibility, mother-daughter relationships and baring her soul in return for publicity
Author Lisa Harding: ‘I have never been scared to look at the dark side of life’
The novelist on her latest book, Wildelings; her penchant for unlikeable characters; and how her acting background is a boon to her writing
Oliver Callan’s mood darkens: ‘In this incredibly rich country of ours we get this’
Radio: RTÉ host hears about waiting-list misery as Kieran Cuddihy exchanges tart words with Minister for Health
Eoin McNamee: On My Culture Radar
The writer on Bob Kelly in Tintown, actor Amybeth McNulty and Eily O’Connell’s jewellery
Furious Hours review: A mannerly account of Harper Lee’s trial run
Casey Cep’s book on author’s true crime project is bogged down by fact-checked stasis
Last Stories by William Trevor is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offer
A sneak preview of this Saturday’s books pages
Anna Burns: From relative unknown to Man Booker prize winner
‘Milkman’ author has been praised for her ‘dazzingly inventive’ writing approach
Man Booker Prize: Belfast writer Anna Burns wins for ‘Milkman’
First Irish writer to win prestigious £50,000 award since Anne Enright in 2007
Canadian ambassador Kevin Vickers launches Arctic novel
Attempt to find Northwest Passage setting for Ed O’Loughlin’s new book Minds of Winter
Ireland’s other Law Library
The professions of writer and lawyer share lots of similarities so it is perhaps no surprise that so many Irish lawyers venture into fiction. Sarah Gilmartin hears the evidence
Ten great Northern Irish novels you might have missed
Authors are using new ways of writing to reflect a changed political environment
Eoin McNamee: a capital crime writer
A decade after writing The Blue Tango about a real-life murder, the author revisited another crime scene in Orchid Blue. Martin Doyle interviews a true great of true crime
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices