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Adrian Bliss’ alternative history gives voice to the ‘nobodies’ of the past
Books
Booker Prize judge hails ‘wonderful surprise’ of five women among shortlist
Irish News
Obituary: Fred Johnston, poet, novelist and social activist who helped to found Galway’s Cúirt literature festival
Book News
Rita Ann Higgins: ‘I certainly wouldn’t like to hurt anyone deliberately. It was never my intention to do that.’
Hypnotist Keith Barry: ‘I woke at 4.47am to find my deceased grandma, Lizzie, sat at the end of my bed’
Sun 15 Sep 2024 at 03:30
“I don’t see the person about to knife me. I think it’s a one-off... Then it happens again.’ David McWilliams on office politics
Sun 15 Sep 2024 at 03:30
‘He kept a diary for 70 years, every single day. When I finished them, I went down to my mother and apologised' – David McGowan on the death of his father
Sun 15 Sep 2024 at 03:30
Rick O’Shea recommends wild and wonderful books for fans of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
Sat 14 Sep 2024 at 03:30
Family secrets and a search for identity and home in the hills of beautiful Beara
Sat 14 Sep 2024 at 03:30
‘The GAA owes everything to Dublin team of the 1970s’ – footballer David Hickey on sporting and personal life in John Scally’s new book
Sat 14 Sep 2024 at 03:30
Seamus O’Rourke: ‘The story I have to tell is worth telling. Rural Ireland isn’t well-represented in the media and arts’
Sat 14 Sep 2024 at 03:30
Killian Sundermann: ‘I like a good depressing novel. It must be something to do with being Irish but I feed on the misery’
Fri 13 Sep 2024 at 15:30
Elizabeth Strout’s Tell Me Everything celebrates beauty in ordinary, complex, parochial lives
Fri 13 Sep 2024 at 15:30
Michael Harding, Andrea Mara and a Polish writing residency are on our literary radar
Fri 13 Sep 2024 at 15:30
In What a Way to Go, Bella Mackie’s deceased Ponzi scheme antihero is darkly fabulous
Fri 13 Sep 2024 at 15:30
Nationwide search underway for An Post ‘Bookshop of the Year’ as nominations open
Thu 12 Sep 2024 at 13:43
Roddy Doyle’s The Women Behind the Door brings a light touch to lives tinged by the dark
Thu 12 Sep 2024 at 03:30
The best children’s books this autumn to spark the fire of imagination for all ages
Thu 12 Sep 2024 at 03:30
David McWilliams makes economics accessible in this wide-ranging history of money
Thu 12 Sep 2024 at 03:30
Jacqueline Wilson: I was worried about disappointing fans when writing the adult sequel to Girls
Wed 11 Sep 2024 at 08:54
‘She was devastated’: Martina Devlin on Charlotte Brontë and how her Irish father’s bombshell almost derailed her wedding day
Wed 11 Sep 2024 at 03:30
Cream teas and weapons under the tablecloths: Richard Osman turns up the action dial with a new cast of sleuths
Tue 10 Sep 2024 at 03:30
Paula Spencer and me: ‘The truth is, she won’t go away — even if she doesn’t exist’
Sun 08 Sep 2024 at 03:30
Author Sinéad Moriarty: ‘Thank God for HRT. I may need to up my dose as I am waking up a lot’
Sat 07 Sep 2024 at 03:30
‘I know so many learners who have benefited from going to Kneecap concerts’: Molly Nic Céile on making the Irish language fun again
Sat 07 Sep 2024 at 03:30
Christine Dwyer Hickey: ‘I’m a poor sleeper so when I wake in the middle of the night, I turn to poetry’
Fri 06 Sep 2024 at 15:30
Martina Devlin’s haunting novel Charlotte remembers a beloved Brontë
Fri 06 Sep 2024 at 15:30
‘Less of a plot twist, more of a jailbreak’: Graham Norton’s Frankie is a masterclass in storytelling
Fri 06 Sep 2024 at 15:30
Lissa Evans’s Small Bomb at Dimperley is a funny and insightful microcosm during World War II
Fri 06 Sep 2024 at 15:30
'You simply couldn't stand with your arms folded’: A fascinating account of the unsung Irish heroes of World War II
Fri 06 Sep 2024 at 15:30
Emma Clarke: The wildest thing about Gillian Anderson’s book on women’s fantasies
Fri 06 Sep 2024 at 12:11
Rick O’Shea: The birthday gift that made me think I’ve been viewing life the wrong way for the last 51 years
Fri 06 Sep 2024 at 03:30
New Irish Writing winners to be revealed at An Post Irish Book Awards as John Boyne and Paula Meehan sign up as judges
Fri 06 Sep 2024 at 03:30
‘A firm belief that a damaged childhood is no excuse for violence.’ A compelling study of the gaps in healthcare and criminal justice
Thu 05 Sep 2024 at 15:30
Inside the Trumps: The making of The Donald by those who knew him best
Paula Meehan: ‘Poetry allows voices to be heard... I have seen the new Irish find a language to say what it’s like to be an emigrant’
Diarmaid Ferriter’s antidote to the Reeling in the Years school of history takes a pop at Bertie, Sally and Paschal
Polygamy, vigilante castration and Europe’s biggest red-light district: yes, there was sex in Ireland before RTÉ
Patrick Collison of Stripe has named his favourite books but here are five more that every tech bro should read
‘Sometimes we just want to get f**ked’: what Gillian Anderson learned from hundreds of women’s secret sexual fantasies
Tony Blair shares his leadership tips and almost admits the Iraq War was a mistake
New crime novels and thrillers to read this September, featuring Stuart Neville and Martina Murphy
New Irish Writing: A poem by Thomas Nolan
New Irish Writing: Stick Shift (from online instructions for driving a manual car) by Claire Bamber
Sinéad Moriarty on a Palestinian refugee story that is as relevant now as it was 20 years ago and other haunting reads
A night of letters for charity, a festival of nature and comics for kids
Eileen Gray takes her rightful place in the sun in Jane Alison’s novel Villa E
Bonnie Burke-Patel’s I Died at Fallow Hall is an elegant debut, a cut above your average murder mystery
Matt Haig: ‘Books change your life slowly and in unseen ways’
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly’s Don’t Look Back in Ongar a fitting goodbye to a total ledgebag
Robert Harris’s Precipice holds a blowtorch to war-time leader’s affair
Rachel Kushner’s ambitious thriller Creation Lake is a piece of literary magnificence
Poet John Cooper Clarke: ‘I wish I had a quid for every time I Wanna Be Yours is recited at a wedding’
Like Fontaines DC, Christine Dwyer Hickey explores the ‘monstrous freedom’ of Irish emigrants in London
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