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Literary Belfast Launches With Gala Evening
New website, iPhone app, tours and exhibitions to be launched in the Ulster Hall -
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 -
Michael O'Loughlin, In This Life
The poet on democratic impotence, filial piety and being critical of everything -
Derry Illustrator Launches Digital Kids Book
Illustrator Trisha Deery's Miss Rosie Red goes interactive -
Sebastian Barry on Being Nominated for the Booker
History and the creative contest continue to inspire the Dublin author -
Nicola Pierce is No Ghost Writer With Spirit of the Titanic
Children's author had prior experience with ghosts. Listen to a reading from chapter one below -
John Hewitt International Summer School
Watch video and read our review of the week -
Long Time, No See, Dermot Healy
It's been 11 years since his last book – are you up to the challenge? -
Kei Miller's Glaswegian Adventure
Ahead of his appearance at the John Hewitt International Summer School, the Jamaican author on plantains and poetry -
Ireland's Antarctic Explorers
Remembering the great endeavours of Ireland's most intrepid -
Aspects Irish Literature Festival Launches
Authors prepare for a week of words in Bangor -
NI Poet Scoops Top Award
Read a poem by Andrew Jamison -
Anne-Marie Quigg on Art Bullies
A new book from Gower Publishing uncovers the seedy underbelly of art bullies -
Belfast Shipbuilders
An admirable exploration of Belfast's engineering heyday -
Martin Mooney Launches a New Poetry Collection
The poet talks about the dearth of paper publishing, his unseemly interests and masochistic radio habits -
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 -
Belfast Book Festival
A unique seven-day celebration of the book, the reader and the writer -
Belfast Through Writers' Eyes
Literary Belfast? There's an app for that -
Literary Belfast
Literary tourists can now find out about Belfast’s exciting literary scene long before they arrive -
The Forgotten Waltz
The Booker Prize winner Anne Enright continues to explore the anatomization of women's lives -
Literary Belfast Reading List
Want to know more about Belfast in fact and fiction? Here's a list of some of the best books around -
Crime Author Brian McGilloway Releases Little Girl Lost
The crime writer sets his latest procedural thriller in Prehen Wood - his mother will be proud -
Falling Glass
Adrian McKinty lives up to his reputation as 'the toughest, the best' Northern Irish crime writer -
Old Peculier Adrian McKinty
The Oz-based crime writer on award nominations and why Liam Neeson would make the perfect gangster -
Americana and Anne-Marie Fyfe
Listen to two poems from Fyfe's new collection, Understudies, and discover how America has shaped her work -
Sheena Wilkinson Wins Literary Gong
Northern Irish author scoops two awards in the Bisto Children's Book of the Year Awards -
Fact Versus Fiction
Carlo Gebler argues that the proliferation of information has affected our love of the novel -
Irish Blood, English Heart
A 'meticulous and enthralling' exploration of Irish musicians in 1980s Britain -
Bible Talk With Melvyn Bragg
Ahead of his Ulster Museum lecture, Lord Bragg discusses the positive impact of the King James Bible -
Blackbird Book Club: Glenn Patterson
Watch video of the acclaimed author discussing the novel as form and visits to Hiroshima -
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 -
CQAF: Michael Longley
The poet on his new collection, A Hundred Doors, keeping it fresh at readings and how he only cares about one critic - his wife -
The Belfast Blitz from the Bottom Up
Stephen Douds writes a history of the Belfast Blitz using the 'voices of ordinary people' -
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
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