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Ahab's Daughter
Lisa Keogh's deftly written, emotionally fluent account of what happened to Captain Ahab's family after Moby-Dick -
Blackbird Book Club: Bernard MacLaverty
Watch video of the Belfast-born author reading from his novel The Anatomy School -
Planesrunner
Quantum widgets and tarot-reading pilots: a ‘fantabulosa bona’ start to Ian McDonald's Everness series -
Colin Bateman, Class Clown
The crime author has re-published a children's novel and plans to tour schools throughout Northern Ireland -
Sound It Out
A documentary about our love affair with independent record stores is 'heartbreaking and always engaging' -
Streets
The Wireless Mystery Theatre brings urban folklore and children's rhyme together on the very literary Streets -
Dickens 2012 NI Festival Launch
Listen to a podcast featuring performances by the Belfast Pickwick Players and actress Rosie Pelan -
Jon Ronson
The author and film-maker on George Clooney, Ian Paisley and psychopaths in the room -
Lionel Shriver
The author of We Need to Talk About Kevin on why she considers herself a 'Belfast writer' -
Literary Lunchtime Readings at The Ulster Hall
Four lunchtime readings showcasing works by celebrated Irish writers -
Sam Burnside MBE
Poet and founder of the Verbal Arts Centre receives New Year honour -
Charles Dickens in Belfast
In the author's bicentenary year, John Gray looks back on his visits to Ireland -
2011: A Year in the Arts
Fionola Meredith looks back on a successful funding campaign and a whole host of stand out events -
Author Tara West: I Relent, I Want an E-Reader For Xmas
Technophobe author bows to the inevitable and sets aside her paperback -
Neil Powell's Search Dogs and Me
New book charts rescue expert's extraordinary missions, from Lockerbie to the Mourne Mountains -
Crime Writer Gerard Brennan is a Wee Rocket
Belfast author Gerard Brennan sells two books to Blasted Heath e-publisher. Listen to a reading here -
Derry Says Hi to Zombies
Issue four of Derry-Londonderry's newest cult comic launches at the Verbal Arts Centre -
CS Lewis Centre Opens in Belmont Tower
The creator of the Narnia series is celebrated with permanent exhibition -
Blackstaff Launch eBook List
The Belfast-based publisher celebrates their 40th anniversary by joining the ebook revolution -
Blackbird Book Club: Carlo Gebler
Watch video of the author reading from his latest novel, The Dead Eight, at Queen's University -
May, Lou & Cass: Jane Austen's Nieces in Ireland
Author Sophia Hillan on the three women whose lives repeated the passions and travails of their aunt's novels -
PODCAST: Children of the Revolution
John Gray talks with author Bill Rolston about interviewing the children of paramilitary combatants -
Eagle's Wings
'A unique and definitive history' of Ulster-Scots, Scotch-Irish and Presbyterians in Northern Ireland -
By the Banks of the Lagan
Ben Simon's collection of oral histories of the Lagan conjures up rural idylls and model asylums -
The Aspects Debate
Whether it's apathy across the water or sighs down south, the authors at Aspects agree things are only getting worse -
Colin Bateman's Crime Night
The Scottish crime writer hints Rebus may have another story to be told -
Nick Laird and Blake Morrison
Two different writers, two different styles, one common theme - mothers and fathers. -
Mebdh McGuckian
Garden poems in a garden setting delight Jill Black, but the poet's thoughts on Jane Eyre are the highlight -
Stolen Souls
Monsters are ten-a-penny in crime novels, Neville writes humans and makes them so much worse -
Belfast Launches TitanCon
Fantasy authors, comic artists and Game of Thrones actors 'aren't the geeky things they used to be' -
Northern Ireland's First Discworld Board Game
David Brashaw on the process of turning Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! into a game -
My Cultural Life: Nick Laird
'A Cookstown skinnymalink mumbling for a bit' - Nick Laird warns his Aspects audience what to expect. -
The Sexual Stereotyping of the Heterosexual Male Part II
Malachi O'Doherty gives his views ahead of the Belfast Festival debate. -
The Sexual Stereotyping of the Heterosexual Male Part I
Carlo Gebler gives his views on the modern man ahead of the Belfast Festival debate -
Heroes in the Dark House
Curator Terry Sweeney brings great writers and great artists in this celebration of writers past and present -
Medbh McGuckian on Sex Appeal and Poetry
Before her Aspects reading, the poet seeks inspiration from Beyoncé -
Blackbird Book Club Returns to Queen's
Northern Ireland literati set to read for students on the Open Learning course -
John Connolly and Alan Glynn
No Alibis' David Torrans hosts an evening with acclaimed crime writers John Connolly and Alan Glynn -
Leontia Flynn's Profit and Loss
The poet talks about her latest collection, gothic madness and celebrating ordinary things -
Literary Bangor Audio Tour
Listen to expert Kenneth Irvine trace the literary history of the town by the lough as the 2013 Aspects Irish Literature Festival approaches -
Literary Belfast Launches With Gala Evening
New website, iPhone app, tours and exhibitions to be launched in the Ulster Hall -
Michael Longley
The Belfast poet contemplates mortality at the Edinburgh International Book Festival -
Henry Rollins
The rocker turned scribe on his love of travel and campaign to free the West Memphis Three -
Michael O'Loughlin, In This Life
The poet on democratic impotence, filial piety and being critical of everything -
Derry Illustrator Launches Digital Kids Book
Illustrator Trisha Deery's Miss Rosie Red goes interactive -
Sebastian Barry on Being Nominated for the Booker
History and the creative contest continue to inspire the Dublin author -
Nicola Pierce is No Ghost Writer With Spirit of the Titanic
Children's author had prior experience with ghosts. Listen to a reading from chapter one below -
John Hewitt International Summer School
Watch video and read our review of the week -
Long Time, No See, Dermot Healy
It's been 11 years since his last book – are you up to the challenge? -
Kei Miller's Glaswegian Adventure
Ahead of his appearance at the John Hewitt International Summer School, the Jamaican author on plantains and poetry -
Ireland's Antarctic Explorers
Remembering the great endeavours of Ireland's most intrepid -
Aspects Irish Literature Festival Launches
Authors prepare for a week of words in Bangor -
NI Poet Scoops Top Award
Read a poem by Andrew Jamison -
Anne-Marie Quigg on Art Bullies
A new book from Gower Publishing uncovers the seedy underbelly of art bullies -
Belfast Shipbuilders
An admirable exploration of Belfast's engineering heyday -
Martin Mooney Launches a New Poetry Collection
The poet talks about the dearth of paper publishing, his unseemly interests and masochistic radio habits -
David Peace & Eoin McNamee
Crime writers make the case for historical fiction -
New Writing Showcase
Poets and prose writers keep the Crescent Arts Centre audience entertained -
A History of the Irish Novel
A whistle-stop tour of Derek Hand's thesis, touching on Edgeworth, Joyce and Bell -
Belfast Book Festival
A unique seven-day celebration of the book, the reader and the writer
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