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  • 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

  • John Connolly and Alan Glynn

    No Alibis' David Torrans hosts an evening with acclaimed crime writers John Connolly and Alan Glynn

  • 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

  • John Hewitt International Summer School

    Watch video and read our review of the week

  • Ireland's Antarctic Explorers

    Remembering the great endeavours of Ireland's most intrepid

  • Belfast Shipbuilders

    An admirable exploration of Belfast's engineering heyday

  • 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

  • The Forgotten Waltz

    The Booker Prize winner Anne Enright continues to explore the anatomization of women's lives

  • Falling Glass

    Adrian McKinty lives up to his reputation as 'the toughest, the best' Northern Irish crime writer

  • Irish Blood, English Heart

    A 'meticulous and enthralling' exploration of Irish musicians in 1980s Britain

  • Michael Longley

    The professional grandfather of poetry on wedding dresses, the wonders of childhood and remembering Ronan Kerr

  • Mike Scott

    The Waterboys frontman reads from his forthcoming autobiography - but the audience want more

  • The Dervish House

    Turkey provides the setting for Ian McDonald's near-future science-fiction epic. It is the 'one SF book to read this year', says Gerard Brennan

  • A Hundred Doors

    Michael Longley expertly explores the passing of a generation in his latest collection, writes Ross Moore

  • Belfast Blitz

    A 'well organized and accessible' compendium of eyewitness accounts by Stephen Douds

  • New Irish Short Stories

    Ireland's financial ruin provides a new narrative, but the influence of the old masters still pervades

  • Take Three Girls

    John Gray discovers new writing from Tara West, Lesley Richardson and Tanya Ravenswater at Finaghy Library

  • John Hegley

    The performance poet proves to be a most charming man at the Out To Lunch Festival

  • The Last Romantic Out of Belfast

    Sam Keery's autobiographical novel delves into the constricting world of 1940s Belfast

  • The Return Room

    WR Rodgers' radio play is reissued with illustrations and a recording of the original production

  • The Stray Sod Country

    Patrick McCabe returns to 'a macabre world and a lost way of life'

  • Voices from Cave Hill

    Learn about the secret history of Cave Hill from the people who lived there

  • Miracle Fruit

    Newtownards poet Moyra Donaldson engages with Enlightenment ideals in her fourth collection

  • 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
  • Helen Lewis

    A Time To Speak

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • C

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

  • Collusion

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

  • Blood & Thunder

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

  • 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

  • King of Country

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

  • 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

  • Launch of The Yellow Nib

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

  • 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

    John Gray reviews the latest novel from author Ciaran Carson

  • Out To Lunch: Seamus Heaney

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

  • 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?

  • An Irish Country Village

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

  • 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

  • Glover's Mistake

    Nick Laird's second novel proves that these days, everyone's a critic

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