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  • The Life and Times of the Living Dead

    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

  • My Cultural Life: Brian McGilloway

    Author of The Rising on Tom Waits, The Great Gatsby and overcoming rejection

  • Where Are You Really From?

    Race, republicanism and a mothers love in Tim Brannigan's memoir
  • Howard Marks

    Howard Marks

    Mr Nice prepares for CQAF 2010 with a chat about Nick Clegg, DEA phone taps and breaking into crime fiction

  • Tim Brannigan

    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

  • A Salute from the Banderol

    Sam Hanna Bell's non-fiction is polished and precise but strikes a reactionary note, argues Joanne Savage

  • Requiems for the Departed

    Some of Northern Ireland’s big name crime-writers reimagine Celtic myths in Requiems for the Dead, an anthology from Morrigan Books

  • INTERVIEW: Gerard Brennan

    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

  • The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

    Philip Pullman offers a realist's view of the Jesus story

  • The Writers Group by Michael Shannon

    Extract from The Writers Group by Michael Shannon, part of Accidental Theatre's Rehearsed Reading series at Blick Studios

  • INTERVIEW: Michael Shannon

    The Theatre might be Accidental but writer Michael Shannon's success isn't

  • My Cultural Life: James Gracey

    The Belfast author on schlocky horror, 'torture porn' and his new book on the Godfather of Gore film-maker Dario Argento

  • Paul Kearney

    Ballymena-born fantasy author Paul Kearney's Spartan inspired military fantasy keeps marching on

  • John Thompson's Desert Island Texts

    A literary afternoon delight, if not quite what Glenn Patterson was expecting

  • INTERVIEW: Bernie McGill

    The Portstewart playwright  turns novelist, with a debut novel The Butterfly Cabinet. Click play for an exclusive reading.

  • Verbal Magazine: The Vampire Slayer of Lisburn

    Why is a Northern Ireland writer turning the searchlight on Twilight, the bestselling vampire romance? Clive Price investigates

  • INTERVIEW: Garrett Carr

    Garrett Carr, author of The Badness of Ballydog, talks about inspiration, publishing and seagulls

  • Emily DeDakis Reading from The Yellow Nib

    Emily DeDakis' contribution to The Yellow Nib was an extract from her unfinished novel How I Was Taught

  • Launch of The Yellow Nib

    Tammy Moore gives her opinion on the fifth edition of The Yellow Nib

  • Garbhan Downey - The American Envoy

    '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'

  • Wild Geese Festival - Memoir, Myth and Troubadours

    The Write! Down writing collective's annual festival in County Down

  • If Trees Could Talk

    Ben Simon gets spruced up for a jaunt through Belfast's woodland history

  • Ian Sansom and The Bad Book Affair

    Tammy Moore and Ian Sansom investigate The Bad Book Affair

  • The Gates

    John Connolly's Gates of Hell are about to open - mind the gap

  • The Pen Friend: It's Been A Long Time

    Read a chapter from Ciaran Carson's new novel

  • Ciaran Carson: The Pen Friend

    As his new novel The Pen Friend is published, Ross Moore talks to Ciaran Carson about writing, music and fountain pens

  • Literature in 2009

    William Crawley on his favourite books of the year

  • The Pen Friend

    John Gray reviews the latest novel from author Ciaran Carson

  • The Day of the Jack Russell

    Joanne Savage is partially satisfied by Colin Bateman's latest offering

  • Bob Shaw

    He was acclaimed by the science fiction cognoscenti and adored by his fans. Mik Duffy remembers the life and work of SF author Bob Shaw

  • Out To Lunch: Brian Keenan

    Writer, survivor, inspiration - Brian Keenan returns home for a spot of lunch

  • Out To Lunch: Seamus Heaney

    Leading light of the Belfast Group returns to the place of his poetic birth

  • Under His Roof

    Author and journalist Malachi O'Doherty on writing a book about his late father, Under His Roof, set for publication this Christmas. Click Play Audio to listen to audio extracts read by the author

  • Northern Lights: The Women from Poolbeg

    Garbhan Downey meets the northern chick literati

  • Stephen Price

    The media-lion turned novelist talks to Garbhan Downey about U2, the celeb zeitgeist and his latest comedy Darling Sweetheart

  • The Atheist's Guide to Christmas

    Joanne Savage finds the godless full of festive cheer

  • Don't Mention the Wars!

    Garbhan Downey reviews Tony Connelly's irreverent trek through stereotypical Europe

  • David Peace

    Forgettable conversation with acclaimed author. Click Play Audio to listen to a podcast from Peace's reading

  • Ian Rankin

    After 25 years writing at least a novel a year, and fast approaching 50, Rankin reckons it’s time to go travelling.

  • Colm Tóibín

    The author keeps the Belfast crowd entertained

  • I'll Tell Me Ma

    John Gray is moved by Brian Keenan's memoir of his Belfast childhood

  • Heaney/Longley

    Philip Hammond is in a minority of one at the Waterfront Hall - or is he?

  • Task Force Helmand

    Captain Doug Beattie serves and survives in wartorn Afghanistan. Watch a video interview below

  • An Irish Country Village

    John Gray reviews the second in Patrick Taylor's series of Irish country novels. Watch a video with Taylor below

  • Northern Lights: Jennifer Johnston

    Garbhan Downey recalls reading about a Derry he recognised and why Johnston should be a figurehead of Derry's City of Culture campaign

  • Colm Tóibín

    Before his Belfast appearance, the two-time Booker-shortlisted author offers his take on criticism, the craft of writing, and the childishness of Jeff Koons 

  • Belfast Festival: Marcus du Sautoy

    Science writer explains why maths rocks and 42 is the magic number

  • Belfast Festival: David Peace

    Yorkshire's finest on story-telling, Brian Clough and why post-war Japan has lessons for us all

  • Boho Books

    15,000 books, a thriving internet business, customers around the globe... all from a couple of sheds in County Fermanagh

  • Literary Strangford

    Peter Geoghegan takes the scenic route through the lough and its writers. Click Play Audio to listen to a podcast on Literary Strangford

  • Verbal Magazine: Forgotten Irish Female Writers

    Darran Anderson examines the lives of some of Ireland's ignored women writers and asks why so many are all but forgotten

  • Fear and Loathing in Dublin

    Joanne Savage reviews Aodhan Madden's story of sex, drink and journalism in 1970s' Dublin

  • Derek Mahon

    Hugh Odling-Smee speaks to the legendary poet about Bangor, Belfast and, er, Goa

  • Aspects Irish Literature Festival

    The Bangor-based festival comes of age with another stellar line up

  • From a Clear Blue Sky

    Timothy Knatchbull's investigation into the IRA bombing of Earl Mountbatten takes a profound journey into personal and Irish history

  • Blood's A Rover

    Stuart Neville reviews James Ellroy's long-awaited final book in the American Underworld Trilogy

  • Sam Millar

    The acclaimed crime writer on setting his work in Belfast. Read the second chapter from his new book, The Dark Place, below

  • The Da Vinci Marketing Code

    University of Ulster business professor lampoons Dan Brown in a unique series of spoof marketing thrillers

  • The Lost Logo

    Read the prologue of Stephen Brown's spoof of Dan Brown's sequel to The Da Vinci Code, entitled The Lost Logo

  • The John Hewitt International Summer School

    Writers from all over the world arrive in honour of 'a poet to be thankful for.' Watch an exclusive video below

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