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Selecting Moyra Donaldson
At what stage in a career is it prudent to publish a retrospective of your work? The poet from Newtownards let others decide -
Ciaran Carson
The multilingual poet, author and musician describes surviving a stray bullet as 'happenstance' and muses on aislings, Asimov and other worlds -
A Verse to Murder
Belfast's salacious literary scene provides the backdrop for Tony Bailie's latest crime story, which is short, sharp and sleazy -
Tony Bailie's A Verse to Murder
The Belfast-based poet and crime writer ventures away from Lagan Press to dip his toe into self-publishing -
Be My Enemy
The second instalment in Ian McDonald's Infundibulum series for young adults is a riveting ride through time and space -
Six Book Challenge
Valerie Nicholson of Libraries NI encourages 'lapsed, reluctant or struggling' readers to pick up a book – or six -
E-Publishing With Rebecca Reid
The Bangor-based model turned author enlisted the help of painter Neil Shawcross for first e-book release -
The Decline of the Irish Murder
Author and performer Reggie Chamberlain-King on crime and punishment in fiction and song -
Pass It On Belfast Encourages New Readers
The book sharing programme – initially started as a waste reduction scheme – has expanded to venues across the city -
The Decline of the Irish Murder
Musician and writer Reggie Chamberlain-King has fun with intellectuals at the Ulster Hall -
A Dark Dawn in Belfast
Author Matt McGuire might have moved to Australia, but his debut novel is rooted in his home town of Belfast -
The Busts and Bonces of Belfast's Buildings
Author Daniel Jewesbury's Talking Heads 'walking narrative' is part of the 'Poets and Players, Dockers and Dreamers' festival -
David Park and the 'Post-Troubles' Novel
The author of The Light of Amsterdam says he'll never write anything on the Troubles again -
Sinéad Morrissey, A Giant of Poetry
Receiving the Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland has allowed the poet time to dream -
My Cultural Life: Barry Cassin
The actor, director and now memoirist on his long career, his family and the one role he'd still love to play -
Lucy Caldwell is a Major Artist
An award from the Arts Council let the Belfast author write her new book in six months, not six years -
The Hay Festival In Belfast
Authors Martin Amis and David Grossman are coming to the Lyric Theatre to talk about their very different novels -
The Writer Who Could See Demons
Carolyn Jess-Cooke's books are full of angels and demons, but the writer rejects being pigeon-holed as 'strictly' a fantasy author -
Anne Tannahill Judges Michael McLaverty Competition
The former Blackstaff Press managing director on keeping an open mind and looking for the unexpected -
MY CULTURAL LIFE: Felicity McCall
The Derry~Londonderry author on her Young Adult debut, social networking and the benefits of a Donegal beach -
RISING STAR: Annemarie Neary
Newry author talks about her debut novel, Venice and 'a mad robin who gets going around midnight' -
Shadowstory
Jennifer Johnston brings her latest novel to life and talks how it is a 'sort of disappearing book' -
The Fall
Violent gangs, murderous bankers and a clever, twisty narrative herald the arrival of Claire McGowan, a new voice in crime -
Claire McGowan, the Accidental Crime Writer
Debut novelist takes on the tough topics of race, murder and class in The Fall -
My Cultural Life: Malachy Doyle
The children's author on button boxes, reading in public and living on an island 'off the edge of Donegal' -
Ahab's Daughter
Lisa Keogh's deftly written, emotionally fluent account of what happened to Captain Ahab's family after Moby-Dick -
Planesrunner
Quantum widgets and tarot-reading pilots: a ‘fantabulosa bona’ start to Ian McDonald's Everness series -
Streets
The Wireless Mystery Theatre brings urban folklore and children's rhyme together on the very literary Streets -
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 -
Blackstaff Launch eBook List
The Belfast-based publisher celebrates their 40th anniversary by joining the ebook revolution -
Stolen Souls
Monsters are ten-a-penny in crime novels, Neville writes humans and makes them so much worse -
Northern Ireland's First Discworld Board Game
David Brashaw on the process of turning Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! into a game -
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 -
Aspects Irish Literature Festival Launches
Authors prepare for a week of words in Bangor -
Anne-Marie Quigg on Art Bullies
A new book from Gower Publishing uncovers the seedy underbelly of art bullies -
Martin Mooney Launches a New Poetry Collection
The poet talks about the dearth of paper publishing, his unseemly interests and masochistic radio habits -
Americana and Anne-Marie Fyfe
Listen to two poems from Fyfe's new collection, Understudies, and discover how America has shaped her work -
Sheena Wilkinson Wins Literary Gong
Northern Irish author scoops two awards in the Bisto Children's Book of the Year Awards -
The Belfast Blitz from the Bottom Up
Stephen Douds writes a history of the Belfast Blitz using the 'voices of ordinary people' -
CS Lewis: Beginnings in a Belfast Garden
Listen to a podcast featuring Lewis expert Sandy Smith and discover the iconography of Narnia inspired by Belfast landmarks -
CS Lewis: It All Began With a Picture
Listen to a podcast featuring Lewis expert Sandy Smith and discover how Lewis’s Belfast homes influenced his writing career -
The Early Life of CS Lewis
Listen to a podcast featuring Lewis expert Sandy Smith and discover how Lewis’s early life in Belfast influenced the Narnia works -
An 'In-Life Sat-Nav', Anyone?
Listen to a reading by author Amanda Brobyn and find out why she doesn't need a psychic to tell the future is bright -
American Artist Asks: Why Belfast?
Watch an online exhibition featuring photographs and testimonies from emigrants in the city, from Why Belfast? -
Maria Fusco and The Mechanical Copula
Author and Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths enjoys the art of book publishing, but remains wary of the e-reader revolution -
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 -
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 -
Dr Yes
'A good-natured pastiche of the detective novel' from Colin Bateman, writes Tammy Moore -
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 -
Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend
Anthony Glavin remembers the author, his friend, and talks about this year's theme 'The Shortest Way Home' -
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 -
INTERVIEW: Damian Smyth
'There is no I in poet,' says the scribe from County Down -
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 -
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 -
INTERVIEW: Margaret Irish
Award-winning writer takes a gothic turn in Ravine, but don't call it horror
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