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  • 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 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

  • The Atheist's Guide to Christmas

    Joanne Savage finds the godless full of festive cheer

  • 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.

  • Task Force Helmand

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Words of the Grey Wind

    A collection of essays 'of great poise and grace'

  • Northern Lights: Adrian McKinty

    Garbhan Downey on why the Carrickfergus crime writer is destined for the New York Times bestseller's list

  • Seaneen Molloy

    Belfast-born blogger sees her Secret Life of a Manic Depressive blog turned into a BBC radio play

  • Adventures In E-reading

    Novelist Garbhan Downey has some teething problems with his new Sony Reader

  • Stuart Neville: Followers

    Short story from top crime fiction writer

  • Stuart Neville

    Crime writer finds inspiration in the Troubles, but won't be bound by it

  • VERBAL MAGAZINE: Joyce In Rome

    The youthful James Joyce’s hatred of his time in Rome may have been the inspiration for 'The Dead', Jonathan deBurca Butler explains

  • Fionnuala Carlin

    Exclusive short story, 'Footsteps', from Derry author's debut collection Days of Wines and Rosaries. Click Play Audio to listen to a podcast with Fionnuala Carlin.

  • David Simon

    Creator of The Wire on drugs, journalism and what's wrong with America today

  • Faber & Faber 80

    One of the world’s most distinguished publishing houses this year celebrates its 80th anniversary. Jane Coyle looks back on the days when she worked as an editorial assistant in the company co-founded by TS Eliot

  • Tony Curtis

    Hollywood legend's still got it...and he's not afraid to talk about it either

  • NI Railways Book Club

    Henry 'The Fonz' Winkler helps to launch Translink's imaginative book reading initiative

  • Garbhan Downey

    Derry writer explains why truth is stranger than fiction ahead of the release of his latest political comedy, War of the Blue Roses. Click Play Audio for a podcast interview

  • Follow in the Footsteps of Literary Giants

    Two special Belfast literary tours launched

  • Hay-On-Belfast

    Tony Curtis and David Simon come to Ulster Hall for first Hay festival season in Belfast

  • Brian McGilloway

    Crime pays for Derry writer and his different type of detective

  • Niall Stanage - On The Road

    The Irish journalist reports on covering Obama's rise to office. Click Play Audio for a full podcast recording

  • Cahal Dallat

    Second collection of poetry for critic, broadcaster...and computer scientist. Click Play Audio for a podcast interview

  • Michael Connelly Comes to Belfast

    No Alibis presents a reading from best-selling crime writer

  • David Torrans - A Bookseller's Alibi

    Writer Ian Sansom talks to No Alibis' owner on bookselling, book loving and becoming immortalised in print

  • My Cultural Life: Paul Feldstein

    The literary agent on nurturing new talent, living in the land of Yeats and taking a lifetime to write it all down

  • My Cultural Life: Catherine McGrotty

    Editor of Verbal Magazine on throwing up over Wetlands, journeying back in time and worshipping godlike genius, Alan Moore

  • Essay from the Archive

    Jonathan Swift graces Tollymore Forest Park - an essay from the Linen Hall Review, 1986

  • Reinventing The Wheel

    Dublin novelist Claire Kilroy on writing, the influence of Banville and Nabokov and the how Irish writers learned to behave. Click Play Audio for a podcast

  • Peter Murphy

    Respected rock journalist finds a new voice in his novel John the Revelator. Click Play Audio for a podcast with the author

  • Claire Kilroy

    The award-winning writer discusses dead horses, the new Athens, and her upcoming appearance at the Belfast Book Festival

  • Dreams from My Father

    'A story of race and inheritance', first published in 1995

  • Reluctant Troubadour

    Gerry Anderson gives his account of the showband era in second book, Heads

  • Edge of the Tide

    Michael Viney on beachcombing in this special excerpt from the latest edition of Irish Pages

  • Puckoon

    Spike Milligan's comic novel gets theatrical reworking
  • Niall Stanage

    The President's Man

    On the campaign trail with Barak Obama, Irish reporter Niall Stanage tells it like it is 

  • Brian Moore Short Story Awards

    £750 prize money awaits the winner of the 12th annual short story competition

  • Justice Is Key To Mid-East Peace

    Acclaimed journalist Robert Fisk addresses the University of Ulster on the current crisis in the Middle East

  • Our Cultural Year

    CNI picks some of its favourite things from 2008

  • Stuart Neville

    Markethill author's debut novel snapped up by top agent and publishers 

  • Queen's Centenary Celebrations

    Seamus Heaney receives Lifetime Achievement Award as centenary celebrations go with a bang at Queen's

  • My Cultural Life: Leontia Flynn

    Following the publication of her second collection, Drives, the poet talks about her respect for Seamus Heaney and Catullus, learning to write and falling in love with Philip Larkin

  • SHORT STORY: To The Trade

    Winning entry in the 2008 Michael McLaverty Short Story competition, by Aiden O'Reilly

  • Michael McLaverty Short Story Award

    Dublin writer scoops top prize at the second biennial short story awards

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