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Tyrone-based author Darach MacDonald, who spent a year shadowing a loyalist band, tells Garbhan Downey how the experience confounded his expectations
A new website selling books from Northern Ireland online
The Linen Hall Library marks the 40th anniversary of Joan Lingard's The Twelfth Day of July with an exhibition of her work
The doyenne of chick-lit chats to Garbhan Downey about edgy new bestseller
It starts with a body, a missing boy and a vigilante group. After that, Brian McGilloway's new novel really starts to pick up
Story by Margaret Irish, shortlisted for the Michael McLaverty Short Story Competition in 2008
Award-winning writer takes a gothic turn in Ravine, but don't call it horror
Book blogging for fame and fortune. This one-time lawyer overcame the technological disadvantages of life on an otherwise uninhabited island to be shortlisted for the inaugural Author Blog Awards. He talks here about his forays into the virtual world…
For Chris Agee artistic success meant Next to Nothing after the death of his daughter, but the habit of poetry supported him through his loss
Get a taste of the famous literary festival at The Black Box
Howard Wright is wonderfully irreverent in his first poetry collection, writes Joanne Savage
County Down based poet wins Hennessey XO Literary Award for Emerging Poetry
The Butterfly State author speaks to Lyra McKee on writing about ordinary people facing extraordinary difficulties
A disturbing look at things that can never be put right by gothic author Jaki McCarrick
Gothic playwright Jaki McCarrick turns a childhood memory of a brutal murder into an award-winning play
The rock-poet Paul Durcan packs out the Dark Horse - Fionola Meredith never looks at her watch once
Drug dealer turned raconteur Howard Marks' is compelling, but his charm doesn't win over Andrew Johnston
Read an extract from Battles Fought on Irish Soil (Londubh Books, 2010) by Sean McMahon
Derry's indefatigable writer speaks to Garbhan Downey about his two latest histories, ‘Battles Fought on Irish Soil’ and ‘The Belfast Blitz’
Read an extract from Wayne Simmons' novel
Zombie horror author Wayne Simmons and Susan Picken of QFT discuss their favourite genre ahead of The Life and Times of the Living Dead weekend at Queens Film Theatre
Author of The Rising on Tom Waits, The Great Gatsby and overcoming rejection
Race, republicanism and a mothers love in Tim Brannigan's memoir
Mr Nice prepares for CQAF 2010 with a chat about Nick Clegg, DEA phone taps and breaking into crime fiction
When Tim Brannigan was a year old he was adopted by his birth mother. In Where are you Really From? he talks about jail, growing up in Belfast and his mother's audacious plan to keep him
Sam Hanna Bell's non-fiction is polished and precise but strikes a reactionary note, argues Joanne Savage
Some of Northern Ireland’s big name crime-writers reimagine Celtic myths in Requiems for the Dead, an anthology from Morrigan Books
Does the webmaster of Crimescene NI have a dark side? Find out as he collaborates with some of Northern Ireland's biggest crime-writers in the anthology, Requiems for the Departed
Philip Pullman offers a realist's view of the Jesus story
Extract from The Writers Group by Michael Shannon, part of Accidental Theatre's Rehearsed Reading series at Blick Studios
The Theatre might be Accidental but writer Michael Shannon's success isn't
The Belfast author on schlocky horror, 'torture porn' and his new book on the Godfather of Gore film-maker Dario Argento
Ballymena-born fantasy author Paul Kearney's Spartan inspired military fantasy keeps marching on
A literary afternoon delight, if not quite what Glenn Patterson was expecting
The Portstewart playwright turns novelist, with a debut novel The Butterfly Cabinet. Click play for an exclusive reading.
Why is a Northern Ireland writer turning the searchlight on Twilight, the bestselling vampire romance? Clive Price investigates
Garrett Carr, author of The Badness of Ballydog, talks about inspiration, publishing and seagulls
Emily DeDakis' contribution to The Yellow Nib was an extract from her unfinished novel How I Was Taught
Tammy Moore gives her opinion on the fifth edition of The Yellow Nib
'Ireland is full of greasy little bagmen, posing as consultants, who’ll get you a face-to-face with a minister for twenty grand... Politics here is crooked and criminal, and it’s why I write fiction'
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