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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 -
Divine Comedy
Padraig Coyle follows the path of Dante's Divine Comedy into Marble Arch Caves and to White Island -
The Poet and the Piper
Seamus Heaney and Liam O'Flynn revisit their 2003 album at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann -
Town and Country New Irish Short Stories
Maureen Boyle bemoans the lack of northern writers -
Jay Rayner
The restaurant critic holds court in Belfast's Crescent Arts Centre. His style is not to Fionola Meredith's taste -
Grounded
Sheena Wilkinson's award-winning novel is 'devastating and beautifully written' -
Jon Ronson
The acclaimed author and 'chronicler of the human condition' waxes lyrical in Derry~Londonderry -
TransAtlantic
Colm McCann's epic new novel spans generations, focusing on historic crossings between Ireland the USA -
One City One Book
Composer Philip Hammond struggles to relate as Glenn Patterson spins vinyl from the Good Vibrations soundtrack