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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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Watch video of the Belfast-born author reading from his novel The Anatomy School
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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 crime author has re-published a children's novel and plans to tour schools throughout Northern Ireland
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A documentary about our love affair with independent record stores is 'heartbreaking and always engaging'
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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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Listen to a podcast featuring performances by the Belfast Pickwick Players and actress Rosie Pelan
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The author and film-maker on George Clooney, Ian Paisley and psychopaths in the room
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The author of We Need to Talk About Kevin on why she considers herself a 'Belfast writer'
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Four lunchtime readings showcasing works by celebrated Irish writers
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Poet and founder of the Verbal Arts Centre receives New Year honour
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In the author's bicentenary year, John Gray looks back on his visits to Ireland
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Fionola Meredith looks back on a successful funding campaign and a whole host of stand out events
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Technophobe author bows to the inevitable and sets aside her paperback
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New book charts rescue expert's extraordinary missions, from Lockerbie to the Mourne Mountains
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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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Issue four of Derry-Londonderry's newest cult comic launches at the Verbal Arts Centre
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The creator of the Narnia series is celebrated with permanent exhibition
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The Belfast-based publisher celebrates their 40th anniversary by joining the ebook revolution
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Watch video of the author reading from his latest novel, The Dead Eight, at Queen's University
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Author Sophia Hillan on the three women whose lives repeated the passions and travails of their aunt's novels
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John Gray talks with author Bill Rolston about interviewing the children of paramilitary combatants
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'A unique and definitive history' of Ulster-Scots, Scotch-Irish and Presbyterians in Northern Ireland
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Ben Simon's collection of oral histories of the Lagan conjures up rural idylls and model asylums
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Whether it's apathy across the water or sighs down south, the authors at Aspects agree things are only getting worse
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The Scottish crime writer hints Rebus may have another story to be told
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Two different writers, two different styles, one common theme - mothers and fathers.
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Garden poems in a garden setting delight Jill Black, but the poet's thoughts on Jane Eyre are the highlight
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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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Fantasy authors, comic artists and Game of Thrones actors 'aren't the geeky things they used to be'
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David Brashaw on the process of turning Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! into a game
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'A Cookstown skinnymalink mumbling for a bit' - Nick Laird warns his Aspects audience what to expect.
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Malachi O'Doherty gives his views ahead of the Belfast Festival debate.
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Carlo Gebler gives his views on the modern man ahead of the Belfast Festival debate
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Curator Terry Sweeney brings great writers and great artists in this celebration of writers past and present
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Before her Aspects reading, the poet seeks inspiration from Beyoncé
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Northern Ireland literati set to read for students on the Open Learning course
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No Alibis' David Torrans hosts an evening with acclaimed crime writers John Connolly and Alan Glynn
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The poet talks about her latest collection, gothic madness and celebrating ordinary things
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Listen to expert Kenneth Irvine trace the literary history of the town by the lough as the 2013 Aspects Irish Literature Festival approaches
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New website, iPhone app, tours and exhibitions to be launched in the Ulster Hall
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The Belfast poet contemplates mortality at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
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The rocker turned scribe on his love of travel and campaign to free the West Memphis Three
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The poet on democratic impotence, filial piety and being critical of everything
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Illustrator Trisha Deery's Miss Rosie Red goes interactive
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History and the creative contest continue to inspire the Dublin author
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Children's author had prior experience with ghosts. Listen to a reading from chapter one below
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Watch video and read our review of the week
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It's been 11 years since his last book – are you up to the challenge?
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Ahead of his appearance at the John Hewitt International Summer School, the Jamaican author on plantains and poetry
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Remembering the great endeavours of Ireland's most intrepid
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Authors prepare for a week of words in Bangor
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Read a poem by Andrew Jamison
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A new book from Gower Publishing uncovers the seedy underbelly of art bullies
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An admirable exploration of Belfast's engineering heyday
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The poet talks about the dearth of paper publishing, his unseemly interests and masochistic radio habits
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Crime writers make the case for historical fiction
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Poets and prose writers keep the Crescent Arts Centre audience entertained
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A whistle-stop tour of Derek Hand's thesis, touching on Edgeworth, Joyce and Bell
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A unique seven-day celebration of the book, the reader and the writer
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