Eileen Battersby: Inquisitive and brilliant, lonely and kind

Authors, colleagues and friends pay tribute to the late Irish Times literary correspondent

Writers of Note – An Irishman’s Diary on the romance of pocket notebooks

Lawrence Osborne’s bad juju and ‘Buddhist plot’ in Cambodia

Interview: The travel journalist and author has set his latest novel, Hunters in the Dark, in Cambodia, after a trip there to cover the genocide trials awakened his interest in the country

Authors on Africa, from Heart of Darkness to The Heart of the Matter

For Africa Day, Eileen Battersby selects 13 classic novels set in Africa but written by outsiders, including several Irish authors

New Fiction: portrait of a passionate Eileen Gray

Patricia O’Reilly’s fifth novel brings colour to a real-life Irish designer

When Bruce Chatwin met Eileen Gray: the star writer and the elusive designer

Patricia O’Reilly on the enigmatic couple whose meeting inspired her novel

Damon Albarn’s roots manoeuvre - why the only way was Essex

Following the successful revival of Blur, not to mention his many other musical projects,Damon Albarn has finally recorded a solo album,‘Everyday Robots’. And he went back to his old stomping grounds of East London and Colchester for inspiration

Image of the week: Moleskine notebooks