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  • Edna O'Brien, Enfant Terrible

    The doyenne of Irish literature goes Out To Lunch with William Crawley

  • Free The Irish Giant!

    Poet Moyra Donaldson's new collection takes inspiration from the freaks and geeks of the 18th century

  • Moyra Donaldson's Miracle Fruit

    Poet explores 'freakery' and loss in new collection

  • Roddy Doyle Questions Commitments Tour

    'It's called a reunion, but they were never actually a band,' says the Dublin author at the Belfast Festival at Queen's

  • 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

  • Colm O'Gorman

    The campaigner against institutional abuse prepares for his Amnesty International lecture

  • Chris Binchy

    Maeve Binchy's nephew claims that being a writer is a lot like being a chef 
  • Helen Lewis

    A Time To Speak

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

  • Why the Arts Matter: Tyrone Guthrie Centre

    Author Tony Macaulay is inspired by a residential, and hopes to go back

  • Song Of Erne

    Jenny Cathcart takes a bus tour in Enniskillen celebrating Robert Harbinson's famous book

  • Culture Night Derry/Londonderry 2010

    Watch a video from the Maiden City, whilst Garbhan Downey attends the Night of Crime literary event

  • 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

  • Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize

    English poet Sian Hughes scoops the inaugural award

  • 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

  • Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend

    Darach MacDonald enjoys digressions in the road as well as on the page

  • Colin Bateman

    The crime writer turns his hand to theatre writing and releases a new novel. Watch an interview, featuring a reading from Dr Yes, below

  • Taking Flight

    Sheena Wilkinson writers Young Adult, but she doesn't do pink, soppy, girly or undead in her latest novel

  • My Cultural Life: Tara West

    The Newtownabbey author on fancying Les Dawson, striking it lucky and being inspired by empty notebooks

  • Derek Landy

    Author of the Skulduggery Pleasant book series on being in the right place at the right time - and topping it all off with a well-deserved holiday

  • Conor O'Clery

    Ahead of his appearance at the Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend, Garbhan Downey talks to the master journalist about rejecting the KGB, writing about 9/11 and Queen's in its heyday

  • Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend

    Anthony Glavin remembers the author, his friend, and talks about this year's theme 'The Shortest Way Home'

  • Emerging Butterfly Launches New Book

    Author Bernie McGill launches her book Butterfly Cabinet

  • C

    The bookies' favourite for the Man Booker Prize renews Peter Geoghegan's faith in the English novel

  • Short Story: Christmas

    A short story by e-published author Jamie Guiney

  • RISING STAR: Jamie Guiney

    E-published author Jamie Guiney says that e-books are the 'wave of the future'

  • Queen's University Open Learning

    Read with the Blackbird Bookclub and celebrate contemporary Northern Irish work at Queen's

  • Stuart Neville: From Armagh to LA

    From ThugLit to Hollywood in two not so easy books, Gerard Brennan talks to the Armagh author

  • Collusion

    Markethill master of the crime thriller Stuart Neville delivers another gruesome page-turner, writes Joanne Savage

  • John Hewitt International Summer School

    Watch David Park read from his forthcoming novel and more in our video below

  • Jump Derry

    This debut novel about the love between a parkour enthusiast and a Derry dancer has Garbhan Downey holding his breath

  • INTERVIEW: Charlie Herron

    Publishing his first novel at the tender age of 74 means the world to this former school teacher from Derry

  • 19th Aspects Irish Literature Festival

    Bangor prepares for the literary spotlight.

  • INTERVIEW: Damian Smyth

    'There is no I in poet,' says the scribe from County Down

  • Blood & Thunder

    Jenny Cathcart learns from this 'valuable resource' by former editor of the Ulster Herald

  • INTERVIEW: Ken Bruen

    The internationally renowned crime writer shoots the breeze with Gerard Brennan

  • Blood & Thunder

    Tyrone-based author Darach MacDonald, who spent a year shadowing a loyalist band, tells Garbhan Downey how the experience confounded his expectations

  • BooksNI

    A new website selling books from Northern Ireland online

  • Joan Lingard

    The Linen Hall Library marks the 40th anniversary of Joan Lingard's The Twelfth Day of July with an exhibition of her work

  • INTERVIEW: Claire Allan

    The doyenne of chick-lit chats to Garbhan Downey about edgy new bestseller

  • The Rising

    It starts with a body, a missing boy and a vigilante group. After that, Brian McGilloway's new novel really starts to pick up

  • SHORT STORY: To The Limit

    Story by Margaret Irish, shortlisted for the Michael McLaverty Short Story Competition in 2008

  • INTERVIEW: Margaret Irish

    Award-winning writer takes a gothic turn in Ravine, but don't call it horror

  • VERBAL MAGAZINE: Michael Faulkner

    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…

  • INTERVIEW: Chris Agee

    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

  • Hay-on-Belfast 2010

    Get a taste of the famous literary festival at The Black Box

  • King of Country

    Howard Wright is wonderfully irreverent in his first poetry collection, writes Joanne Savage

  • Olive Broderick

    County Down based poet wins Hennessey XO Literary Award for Emerging Poetry

  • INTERVIEW: Carol Coffey

    The Butterfly State author speaks to Lyra McKee on writing about ordinary people facing extraordinary difficulties

  • SHORT STORY: Congo

    A disturbing look at things that can never be put right by gothic author Jaki McCarrick

  • INTERVIEW: Jaki McCarrick

    Gothic playwright Jaki McCarrick turns a childhood memory of a brutal murder into an award-winning play

  • Paul Durcan

    The rock-poet Paul Durcan packs out the Dark Horse - Fionola Meredith never looks at her watch once

  • Howard Marks

    Drug dealer turned raconteur Howard Marks' is compelling, but his charm doesn't win over Andrew Johnston

  • The Battle of Tory Island

    Read an extract from Battles Fought on Irish Soil (Londubh Books, 2010) by Sean McMahon

  • Sean McMahon: The Battle King

    Derry's indefatigable writer speaks to Garbhan Downey about his two latest histories, ‘Battles Fought on Irish Soil’ and ‘The Belfast Blitz’

  • FLU

    Read an extract from Wayne Simmons' novel

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