Lily by Rose Tremain: A winter’s tale with nods to Dickens
Book review: An engaging Victorian morality tale about a real-life foundling hospital
‘We limit ourselves. We’re told to behave in a certain way from birth’
Following on from her work on the stage and TV, Jessie Buckley now makes her big-screen debut in ‘Beast’ – a bow that is cause for great excitement in her native Co Kerry
‘Red Rock’ returns: So who killed Brian McGonigle?
As TV3’s hit soap returns to reveal who killed its principal baddy, its creators talk about the show, its future and keeping their audience engrossed
Shelf life: writers take us through their collections
Ahead of this year’s Dublin Book Festival, we ask some of the participating authors to tell us the stories behind the books in their personal collections
10 scary stories for Halloween
You may be too old to go trick or treating, but are you brave enough to read one of these tales before you go to sleep tonight?
Brought to Book: Jane Casey on Donna Tartt, Maeve Brennan and avoiding the twist
‘If I love a book, I want to own a print version of it. My (huge) collection is like a physical manifestation of what furnishes my brain’
Grave concerns: the last temptation of crime novelists
Preachers, guilt, biblical references: what is it about religious imagery that crimewriters just can’t resist?
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