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Home Words
The Public Record Office celebrate the life and work of poet, activist and mentor John Hewitt -
Malcolm Orange Disappears
Jan Carson's debut novel is a magical realist adventure that fizzes with life -
Romancing Ireland
Paul Clements' biography of Richard Hayward reveals a forgotten renaissance man -
Breaking the Silence
Former Israeli soldier turned peace campaigner Yehuda Shaul speaks from the heart at the Black Box -
Jonathan Meades
The inimitable architecture and food critic revels in language and sardonic wit at the Crescent Arts Centre -
The Pigeon Men
Felicity McCall bravely tackles the subject of child abuse in this compelling but disturbing novella -
The Incubator
New literary journal launches at the Black Box in Belfast with readings from featured writers -
PJ O'Rourke
American conservative satirist holds court on the baby boom generation at Ulster Museum for the Hay Festival of Literature -
From Out of the City
John Kelly imagines a future Dublin lorded over by porn stars, dead presidents and not-so-starry skies -
Writers on Writers
Poet Martin Mooney and playwright Martin Lynch discuss their influences at the Linen Hall Library -
Poets in the City
Poetry, music and the movies meet as One City One Book Belfast visits Movie House Cinemas -
Still
Community Arts Partnership publish 52 poems informed by the word and its various connotations -
A Commemorative Reading
Poet laureates from across Britain gather at the Ulster Hall in appreciation of the late Nobel Prize winner, Seamus Heaney -
Behind the Headlines
Veteran journalist Alf McCreary recalls a 'multi-faceted, constantly stimulating' career in print -
The Poets' Wives
Behind every great man there is a great woman in David Park's 'stunning' new novel -
Chris Agee
The American poet talks of loss and commemoration at the Ulster Hall -
The Rest Just Follows
Glenn Patterson's nostalgic new novel recalls the strangely free and quiet Belfast of the 1970s -
Willy Vlautin
Glenn Patterson talks with the American novelist and songwriter about Obama Care and The Free -
Edna O'Brien
The famous fiery red head novelist speaks of her memoir 'Country Girl' and the outcry caused by the epochal ‘The Country Girls’ -
Parallax
An 'intensely visual, evocative' collection from TS Eliot Prize winner Sinéad Morrissey -
Alternative Ulsters
Mark Carruthers asks Seamus Heaney, James Nesbitt and others what Ulster means to them -
Celebrate the City
Three of Belfast's finest writers pay tribute to the legacy of CS Lewis -
The Polaris Whisper
Kenneth Gregory's debut fantasy novel leaves John Higgins desperate for the next two volumes -
Longbourn
Jo Baker imagines what life was like for the servants in Pride and Prejudice