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Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend
Darach MacDonald enjoys digressions in the road as well as on the page -
C
The bookies' favourite for the Man Booker Prize renews Peter Geoghegan's faith in the English novel -
Collusion
Markethill master of the crime thriller Stuart Neville delivers another gruesome page-turner, writes Joanne Savage -
Blood & Thunder
Jenny Cathcart learns from this 'valuable resource' by former editor of the Ulster Herald -
The Rising
It starts with a body, a missing boy and a vigilante group. After that, Brian McGilloway's new novel really starts to pick up -
King of Country
Howard Wright is wonderfully irreverent in his first poetry collection, writes Joanne Savage -
Paul Durcan
The rock-poet Paul Durcan packs out the Dark Horse - Fionola Meredith never looks at her watch once -
Howard Marks
Drug dealer turned raconteur Howard Marks' is compelling, but his charm doesn't win over Andrew Johnston -
Launch of The Yellow Nib
Tammy Moore gives her opinion on the fifth edition of The Yellow Nib -
If Trees Could Talk
Ben Simon gets spruced up for a jaunt through Belfast's woodland history -
Ian Sansom and The Bad Book Affair
Tammy Moore and Ian Sansom investigate The Bad Book Affair -
The Gates
John Connolly's Gates of Hell are about to open - mind the gap -
The Pen Friend
John Gray reviews the latest novel from author Ciaran Carson -
Out To Lunch: Seamus Heaney
Leading light of the Belfast Group returns to the place of his poetic birth -
Colm Tóibín
The author keeps the Belfast crowd entertained -
I'll Tell Me Ma
John Gray is moved by Brian Keenan's memoir of his Belfast childhood -
Heaney/Longley
Philip Hammond is in a minority of one at the Waterfront Hall - or is he? -
An Irish Country Village
John Gray reviews the second in Patrick Taylor's series of Irish country novels. Watch a video with Taylor below -
From a Clear Blue Sky
Timothy Knatchbull's investigation into the IRA bombing of Earl Mountbatten takes a profound journey into personal and Irish history -
Glover's Mistake
Nick Laird's second novel proves that these days, everyone's a critic