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A residential retreat beckons writers of all levels while Write By the Sea returns with a host of big names
Irish News
Friends and family bid fond farewell as country girl Edna O’Brien is laid to rest on Holy Island
Book Reviews
New crime novels and thrillers to read this August, featuring Steve Cavanagh and Michael Russell
Books
Rick O’Shea: Four brilliant recent reads that might have escaped your notice
Essie Chambers’s Swift River expertly presents a multifaceted Diamond in the rough in New England
Fri 09 Aug 2024 at 15:30
From an unsettling reality TV show to Scandi noir, these new murder mysteries span the globe
Fri 09 Aug 2024 at 15:30
Abi Daré’s And So I Roar moralises slightly, but is a gripping and immersive Nigerian village tale
Fri 09 Aug 2024 at 15:30
Elif Shafak: ‘A graphic novel of A Tale of Two Cities opened up another world and I never looked back’
Fri 09 Aug 2024 at 15:30
David Peace’s Munichs is an intricate work of art recalling the Manchester United plane crash of 1958
Fri 09 Aug 2024 at 15:30
Donal Ryan’s Heart, Be at Peace is a deeply serious and moral book that revisits familiar characters
Fri 09 Aug 2024 at 15:30
The Irish Republican Brotherhood 1914-1924: Question of legacy can often be a knotty one
Thu 08 Aug 2024 at 03:30
‘The poison was always there’: how India’s Hindu-Muslim divide was weaponised by the far right
Thu 08 Aug 2024 at 03:30
Stardust saga proves that the truth always leaves traces, no matter how time and distance try to bury it
Thu 08 Aug 2024 at 03:30
Nancy Pelosi’s memoir takes several jabs at Trump but is oddly tight-lipped elsewhere
Thu 08 Aug 2024 at 03:30
Do you know a budding artist? Unpublished illustrator wanted for new children’s book
Wed 07 Aug 2024 at 07:07
What the arts set is reading on holiday: Novella, memoir, historical fiction and a dash of self-help
Tue 06 Aug 2024 at 15:30
‘You have to reimagine the world when someone dies… I haven’t reimagined this world yet’ – Donal Ryan on losing his mother last year
Mon 05 Aug 2024 at 03:30
‘If people ask about the outcomes of treatments, I leave things open because you don’t know’: The oncologist author
Mon 05 Aug 2024 at 03:30
Former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn reads from ‘Poetry for the Many’ collection in Galway
Sun 04 Aug 2024 at 14:24
Obituary: Edna O’Brien, acclaimed author and leading light of a generation who broke the manacles of church and state censorship in 1960s Ireland
Sun 04 Aug 2024 at 03:30
Carlo Gébler on the death of his mother Edna O’Brien: ‘The disappearance of the people who gave you life... once they’re gone, that’s it’
Sun 04 Aug 2024 at 03:30
Ten forgotten Irish novels that deserve to be rediscovered
Sat 03 Aug 2024 at 03:30
‘It’s young adult, it’s fan fiction, it’s pornography’: how romantasy helps women reclaim the narrative
Sat 03 Aug 2024 at 03:30
Jan Carson tells Rick O’Shea her favourite reads, including a macabre tale that made her ‘laugh so hard’
Fri 02 Aug 2024 at 03:30
Where to start with Edna O’Brien: a guide to the author’s best work
Fri 02 Aug 2024 at 02:30
Colum McCann on his friend Edna O’Brien: ‘She nominated me to write her life story, but how could I do her justice?’
Thu 01 Aug 2024 at 03:30
Almost $70bn, 100,000 documents and 300 interviews – how Richard Behar got to the bottom of Bernie Madoff’s money machine
Thu 01 Aug 2024 at 03:30
40 brilliant beach books: Irish booksellers on their holiday reads
Wed 31 Jul 2024 at 03:30
Sweet Valley High author Francine Pascal dies at 92
Tue 30 Jul 2024 at 11:42
‘One of our greatest writers’ – tributes to Irish novelist Edna O’Brien who died aged 93
Mon 29 Jul 2024 at 08:16
New Irish Writing: Poetry by Agnieszka Filipek
Sat 27 Jul 2024 at 03:30
Rick O’Shea: Hillbilly Elegy is back in the headlines but try these books for a picture of American poverty
Sat 27 Jul 2024 at 03:30
New Irish Writing: Night Shift by Stephen Brophy
Sat 27 Jul 2024 at 03:30
David Lagercrantz's meandering Fatal Gambit gets lost somewhere in translation
Fri 26 Jul 2024 at 15:30
Sinéad Moriarty mines comedy gold from grief as Devlin sisters make welcome return in ‘Good Sisters’
Author Faith Hogan: ‘Sometimes the books you keep hearing about are the ones that prove to be the biggest disappointments’
Bodies by Christine Anne Foley is a fine debut featuring a strong, authentic heroine
Bogus adventure from Keanu Reeves fails to come together so wait for the movie instead
Hope is rekindled in Benjamin Myers’ ode to the Northern Soul music scene
What Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and JD Vance's favourite books say about them
Alexei Navalny’s biography depicts the larger-than-life lead in a very Russian tragedy
Alexei Navalny’s idea of Russia was not ideal but it was better than Putin’s — and he died fighting for it
Rick O’Shea’s book picks: Miranda July’s ‘hot flush noir’ is a funny and wry meditation on perimenopause
Peter Swanson’s A Talent for Murder is a riveting and contemporary nod to mysteries of yore
RB Egan’s gritty Dublin-set noir One Perfect Stranger will delight crime fiction fans
Author Chris Whitaker: ‘Liz Nugent is one of those writers who inspires you to be fearless, to disregard tropes and trends’
The 24-hour readathon: can you last a whole day and night with your head stuck in a book?
Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc is a sobering study of global states which leave democracy in the bin
Doping scandals, heated rivalries and murder — 10 books on the highs and lows of the Olympic games
Laila Mickelwait’s Takedown is a brave account of her campaign against Pornhub and broader tech giants
Dublin bookshop apologises after antisemitic book that inspired Nazi propaganda appears on shelf
From prince of India to king of Connemara: how a celebrated ruler in Britain’s empire was feted in the Free State
Máiría Cahill: The story Alice Munro never told us – What makes some people side with those who abuse their own children?
Rick O’Shea: Cli-fi brings home environmental catastrophe in a way nothing else can
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