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  • By the Banks of the Lagan

    Ben Simon's collection of oral histories of the Lagan conjures up rural idylls and model asylums

  • The Aspects Debate

    Whether it's apathy across the water or sighs down south, the authors at Aspects agree things are only getting worse  

  • Colin Bateman's Crime Night

    The Scottish crime writer hints Rebus may have another story to be told

  • Nick Laird and Blake Morrison

    Two different writers, two different styles, one common theme - mothers and fathers.  

  • Mebdh McGuckian

    Garden poems in a garden setting delight Jill Black, but the poet's thoughts on Jane Eyre are the highlight

  • Stolen Souls

    Monsters are ten-a-penny in crime novels, Neville writes humans and makes them so much worse

  • John Connolly and Alan Glynn

    No Alibis' David Torrans hosts an evening with acclaimed crime writers John Connolly and Alan Glynn

  • Michael Longley

    The Belfast poet contemplates mortality at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

  • Henry Rollins

    The rocker turned scribe on his love of travel and campaign to free the West Memphis Three

  • John Hewitt International Summer School

    Watch video and read our review of the week

  • Ireland's Antarctic Explorers

    Remembering the great endeavours of Ireland's most intrepid

  • Belfast Shipbuilders

    An admirable exploration of Belfast's engineering heyday

  • David Peace & Eoin McNamee

    Crime writers make the case for historical fiction

  • New Writing Showcase

    Poets and prose writers keep the Crescent Arts Centre audience entertained

  • A History of the Irish Novel

    A whistle-stop tour of Derek Hand's thesis, touching on Edgeworth, Joyce and Bell

  • The Forgotten Waltz

    The Booker Prize winner Anne Enright continues to explore the anatomization of women's lives

  • Falling Glass

    Adrian McKinty lives up to his reputation as 'the toughest, the best' Northern Irish crime writer

  • Irish Blood, English Heart

    A 'meticulous and enthralling' exploration of Irish musicians in 1980s Britain

  • Michael Longley

    The professional grandfather of poetry on wedding dresses, the wonders of childhood and remembering Ronan Kerr

  • Mike Scott

    The Waterboys frontman reads from his forthcoming autobiography - but the audience want more

  • The Dervish House

    Turkey provides the setting for Ian McDonald's near-future science-fiction epic. It is the 'one SF book to read this year', says Gerard Brennan

  • A Hundred Doors

    Michael Longley expertly explores the passing of a generation in his latest collection, writes Ross Moore

  • Belfast Blitz

    A 'well organized and accessible' compendium of eyewitness accounts by Stephen Douds

  • New Irish Short Stories

    Ireland's financial ruin provides a new narrative, but the influence of the old masters still pervades

  • Take Three Girls

    John Gray discovers new writing from Tara West, Lesley Richardson and Tanya Ravenswater at Finaghy Library

  • John Hegley

    The performance poet proves to be a most charming man at the Out To Lunch Festival

  • The Last Romantic Out of Belfast

    Sam Keery's autobiographical novel delves into the constricting world of 1940s Belfast

  • The Return Room

    WR Rodgers' radio play is reissued with illustrations and a recording of the original production

  • The Stray Sod Country

    Patrick McCabe returns to 'a macabre world and a lost way of life'

  • Voices from Cave Hill

    Learn about the secret history of Cave Hill from the people who lived there

  • Miracle Fruit

    Newtownards poet Moyra Donaldson engages with Enlightenment ideals in her fourth collection

  • Joseph O'Connor

    Author of The Star of the Sea 'has a candle burning' for Richard and Judy

  • Chris Binchy

    Apathy and Auntie Maeve make this a night to forget
  • Helen Lewis

    A Time To Speak

    One woman's remarkable story of surviving Auschwitz through friendship, determination, luck and dance

  • Dr Yes

    'A good-natured pastiche of the detective novel' from Colin Bateman, writes Tammy Moore

  • Human Chain

    'A gorgeously understated' new collection from Seamus Heaney, writes Ross Moore

  • Mike Faulkner at Aspects

    The Poet Laureate of Strangford Lough takes a gentle dander through his past with Fionola Meredith at Aspects Literature Festival

  • The Auditor

    County Tyrone writer Francis Hagan mixes sci-fi elements and apocalyptic vision in his debut novel with almost Orwellian results, argues Joanne Savage

  • Stephen Fry

    The writer and comedian helps to revolutionise book publishing by launching his autobiography live from the Royal Festival Hall, writes Andrew Johnston

  • Room

    Inspired by the Joseph Fritzl case this novel moves beyond the gruesome aspects of imprisonment to create a story of love and growing up, says Julie Harvey

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