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At what stage in a career is it prudent to publish a retrospective of your work? The poet from Newtownards let others decide
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The multilingual poet, author and musician describes surviving a stray bullet as 'happenstance' and muses on aislings, Asimov and other worlds
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Belfast's salacious literary scene provides the backdrop for Tony Bailie's latest crime story, which is short, sharp and sleazy
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The Belfast-based poet and crime writer ventures away from Lagan Press to dip his toe into self-publishing
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The second instalment in Ian McDonald's Infundibulum series for young adults is a riveting ride through time and space
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Valerie Nicholson of Libraries NI encourages 'lapsed, reluctant or struggling' readers to pick up a book – or six
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The Bangor-based model turned author enlisted the help of painter Neil Shawcross for first e-book release
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Author and performer Reggie Chamberlain-King on crime and punishment in fiction and song
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The book sharing programme – initially started as a waste reduction scheme – has expanded to venues across the city
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Musician and writer Reggie Chamberlain-King has fun with intellectuals at the Ulster Hall
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Author Matt McGuire might have moved to Australia, but his debut novel is rooted in his home town of Belfast
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Author Daniel Jewesbury's Talking Heads 'walking narrative' is part of the 'Poets and Players, Dockers and Dreamers' festival
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The author of The Light of Amsterdam says he'll never write anything on the Troubles again
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Receiving the Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland has allowed the poet time to dream
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The actor, director and now memoirist on his long career, his family and the one role he'd still love to play
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An award from the Arts Council let the Belfast author write her new book in six months, not six years
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Authors Martin Amis and David Grossman are coming to the Lyric Theatre to talk about their very different novels
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Carolyn Jess-Cooke's books are full of angels and demons, but the writer rejects being pigeon-holed as 'strictly' a fantasy author
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The former Blackstaff Press managing director on keeping an open mind and looking for the unexpected
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The Derry~Londonderry author on her Young Adult debut, social networking and the benefits of a Donegal beach
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Newry author talks about her debut novel, Venice and 'a mad robin who gets going around midnight'
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Jennifer Johnston brings her latest novel to life and talks how it is a 'sort of disappearing book'
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Violent gangs, murderous bankers and a clever, twisty narrative herald the arrival of Claire McGowan, a new voice in crime
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Debut novelist takes on the tough topics of race, murder and class in The Fall
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The children's author on button boxes, reading in public and living on an island 'off the edge of Donegal'
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Lisa Keogh's deftly written, emotionally fluent account of what happened to Captain Ahab's family after Moby-Dick
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Quantum widgets and tarot-reading pilots: a ‘fantabulosa bona’ start to Ian McDonald's Everness series
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The Wireless Mystery Theatre brings urban folklore and children's rhyme together on the very literary Streets
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Belfast author Gerard Brennan sells two books to Blasted Heath e-publisher. Listen to a reading here
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The Belfast-based publisher celebrates their 40th anniversary by joining the ebook revolution
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Monsters are ten-a-penny in crime novels, Neville writes humans and makes them so much worse
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David Brashaw on the process of turning Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! into a game
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Children's author had prior experience with ghosts. Listen to a reading from chapter one below
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Authors prepare for a week of words in Bangor
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A new book from Gower Publishing uncovers the seedy underbelly of art bullies
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The poet talks about the dearth of paper publishing, his unseemly interests and masochistic radio habits
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Listen to two poems from Fyfe's new collection, Understudies, and discover how America has shaped her work
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Northern Irish author scoops two awards in the Bisto Children's Book of the Year Awards
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Stephen Douds writes a history of the Belfast Blitz using the 'voices of ordinary people'
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Listen to a podcast featuring Lewis expert Sandy Smith and discover the iconography of Narnia inspired by Belfast landmarks
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