Author Hugo Hamilton honoured by GermanyAmbassador says âhis writings bring the Germans closer to the Irish and the Irish closer to the GermansâTue Oct 14 2014 - 18:13
Patrick Modiano wins Nobel Prize for LiteratureFrench author (69) perhaps best known for Lacombe Lucien screenplayThu Oct 09 2014 - 12:22
Sinead OâConnor to keep sex life beneath, not between, the coversSinger claims promise to âdish the sexual dirtâ in memoir âjust a funny quoteâ to promote bookThu Oct 09 2014 - 11:10
Sinead OâConnor: âI will dish the dirt on everyone Iâve slept withâControversial singer signs deal with PenguinTue Oct 07 2014 - 16:51
Eoin Colfer hopes to Hook young readersLaureate na nĂg launches nationwide tour of storytelling in his native WexfordMon Oct 06 2014 - 16:32
Andrew Nugent: âDonât write merely for publication. To thine own self be trueââI am only conscious of the number of texts in various languages which were definitively ruined for us by being forced to study them too youngâSun Oct 05 2014 - 01:00
Paul Hill prison letters documentary to air on BBCGuildford Four manâs words give a real sense of an ordinary young man caught in a terrible miscarriage of justice, trying to reassure his mother, growing up at a distance from the world and his loved onesFri Oct 03 2014 - 10:59
See Richard Ford at Trinity next week, and other listingsCathy Kelly, Colin Barrett and Bram Stoker festivalFri Oct 03 2014 - 10:11
Conor Brady: âreaders need never be lonely; writers need never be idleââKate OâBrien was one of the great successes of the Censorship Board in that they succeeded in driving her out of the country into penuryâThu Oct 02 2014 - 01:28
Lionel Shriver tale of flirting with death wins BBC short story awardZadie Smith is runner-up for ÂŁ15,000 prizeWed Oct 01 2014 - 15:45
Royal regrets and Voltaireâs homage to Scotland make Oxford Dictionary of QuotationsWebsite contains links to recordings of quotations spoken by authors including JFK and WB YeatsThu Sept 18 2014 - 10:10
Herman Koch on being caught by Holden CaulfieldâJoyce is under-rated because nobody really reads him. They think he is too difficult, which, apart from Finnegans Wake, he is notâSun Sept 14 2014 - 01:00
Colin Bateman on Catch-22 and the perils of researchWhat book would you give to a friendâs child on their 18th birthday? âI probably wouldnâtâFri Sept 12 2014 - 10:47
Michael Foley on killer quotations, flawed characters and the joy of ProustâBeing a writer taught me that to be good at anything you have to devote your entire life to it, and that even this is no guarantee of success. Fortunately there was also another lesson â that process is more important than product so that the pleasure of writing is its own rewardâFri Sept 12 2014 - 10:29
Peter Lantos on being more prolific than Barbara CartlandSixty years after leaving a sleepy provincial town in Hungary with his parents for Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the renowned neuroscientist retraced his steps before writing his childhod memoirFri Sept 12 2014 - 09:35
Alex Preston: âMy first book was decent, the second not so much, the new one is beautifulââI like the thrill of the fact/fiction blur. Itâs not new, but it seems more vital and vivid now than ever beforeâWed Sept 10 2014 - 01:00
Evelyn OâRourke: âNothing is as absorbing as a good book. Time stands stillââIt is weird that even when your research topic is yourself, itâs amazing how many facts about yourself that you have to double-checkâTue Sept 09 2014 - 01:00
Patricia OâReilly on the wonder of the world and the power of the wordâNot a wasted wordâ â itâs a philosophy I try to follow in my writingSun Sept 07 2014 - 01:00
Mark Haysom: âA book in your hand is like holding magicââFor Love, Love Me Do, I lived through the fifties and sixties. I think thatâs a pretty impressive amount of researchâMon Sept 01 2014 - 13:00
âLessons are learned through living. Reading reinforces them and helps you make sense of themâSaskia Sarginson on her writing life and lovesMon Sept 01 2014 - 01:00
Derek Landy on living life without a bossâMake every chapter your absolute favourite . . . Then, when itâs done, make the NEXT chapter your absolute favouriteâThu Aug 28 2014 - 07:00
Dwayne Alexander Smith on the magic in the detailsThis week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we have a daily Q&A with a debut authorMon Aug 11 2014 - 12:00
Daniel Seery on cookery books, erotic fiction and murblingThis week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we have a daily Q&A with a debut authorSun Aug 10 2014 - 12:00
SeĂĄn OâConnor on the gentle world of the book industry and a distinctly decent sub-species of the human raceThis week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we have a daily Q&A with a debut authorFri Aug 08 2014 - 12:00
LĂ©an Cullinan on learning to love rewritingThis week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we have a daily Q&A with a debut authorThu Aug 07 2014 - 12:00
Darragh McKeon on standing in the margins, beyond influence or affiliationThis week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we have a daily Q&A with a debut authorWed Aug 06 2014 - 12:00
Liz Nugent on getting published in the most difficult period ever for the industryThis week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we will have a daily Q&A with a debut authorTue Aug 05 2014 - 12:00
Brought to Book: Mary Morrissy on Alice Munro, Jane Eyre and James WoodâI write at home in a small study that used to be the spare bedroom until I jettisoned the bed and forced guests to sleep on a sofabed in the living roomâMon Jun 30 2014 - 01:00
Arise, Sir John! France honours BanvilleBestselling literary author receives second major award in a monthTue Jun 24 2014 - 17:06
Brought to Book: Jonathan Meades on the trial and execution of Tony BlairâLearn the word for everything and remember them. Learn the rules and forget themâTue Jun 24 2014 - 12:00
Brought To Book: Yvonne Cassidy â âFind your own voice, donât write for other peopleââDonât worry about getting published, or getting an agent or any of that, just write until you are finished. You canât control these external factors, but you can control the focus and time you put into your own workâMon Jun 23 2014 - 12:00
Brought to Book: Jane Casey on Donna Tartt, Maeve Brennan and avoiding the twistâIf I love a book, I want to own a print version of it. My (huge) collection is like a physical manifestation of what furnishes my brainâSun Jun 22 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book: Paul Lynch - âEach one of us is a labyrinth of complexityââIt sounds strange to say, but when I read Don DeLilloâs Underworld in my early twenties, I just knew I would be a writerâFri Jun 20 2014 - 01:00
Brought to book: Bonnie Greer on Hemingway, Borges and Anne FrankâCritics, especially legacy critics, are important for sales, prizes, maybe longevity. But they donât tell you about writing or if you can do it. Itâs businessâThu Jun 19 2014 - 12:00
Carys Bray on Mormon stories, âThe Stone Diariesâ and writing the fun bits firstâI think reading has helped me to develop empathy. I love trying on other livesâWed Jun 18 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book â Alison Jameson: âYour own inner voice might be the biggest challenge facing you. Learn to âshushâ itââI wish Iâd read The Catcher in the Rye earlier as I think I would have written more then. I had things to say as a youngster but I didnât think they would be worth readingâMon Jun 16 2014 - 11:31
Brought to Book â Miriam Toews: âIgnore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!ââI wanted to do a Masters degree in Irish literature but I ended up getting pregnant insteadâMon Jun 16 2014 - 01:37
Oxford English Dictionary selects 100 words that define first World WarThe term First World War itself was first recorded on September 10th, 1918Fri Jun 13 2014 - 10:57
Brought to Book: Rob Doyle on Keith Talent, Nietzscheâs morals and stone-cold classicsâIâm grateful to the authors of shorter books, because my concentration is shot from the internet and all the coffeeâFri Jun 13 2014 - 01:00
NI photography book wins Irish-American prizeTitle showcases significant works by more than 50 photographersThu Jun 12 2014 - 14:30
Brought to Book: John Boyne on Noddy, Homer Wells, âBirdsongâ and a Kindle tipâI am at my happiest when I have completed a first draft of a novel and am about to begin a secondâFri Jun 06 2014 - 01:00
Baileys winner Eimear McBride puts it up to publishersâLarge publishing houses should siphon off some of their vast wealth to champion experimental fictionâThu Jun 05 2014 - 13:14
John Banville is first Irish author to win âŹ50,000 Asturias awardHis alter ego Benjamin Black is also praisedWed Jun 04 2014 - 17:21
Sara Baume wins âŹ15,000 Davy Byrnes short story awardWriter beats two published novelists to follow in distinguished footsteps of Anne Enright and Claire KeeganTue Jun 03 2014 - 18:30
Brought to Book: Viv Albertine on Cocteau, Ono, Austen and Catherine the Greatâs horseâDonât waffle. Be honest. Write so youâre ashamed. Edit it about 20 times, get another three professional people to edit it. Edit it another 10 timesâMon Jun 02 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book: Vona Groarke on the unbearable lightness of reviewsâWhat has being a writer taught me? Precision. Restraint. Slyness. Envy. Thrift. The value of a good nounâFri May 30 2014 - 01:00
Eimear McBride wins âŹ15,000 Kerry Group Irish novel of the year awardâA Girl Is A Half-formed Thingâ author has already won Goldsmiths Prize and been shortlisted for Baileys, Folio and Desmond Elliott prizesWed May 28 2014 - 20:00
UCD honours Maeve Binchy with âŹ4,000 travel award for creative writingInaugural winner to explore the 31 regions of the BBC shipping forecastTue May 27 2014 - 15:33
