The good old days are back: opium, fancy hats, colonialism and well-lit sex
Patrick Freyne: The Luminaries looks great and has spirited acting, but what is it trying to be?
Emma. review: It’s cool but it’s no Clueless
Review: Anya Taylor-Joy suffers as too-cool direction get in the way of a pretty enough diversion
Booker winner Anna Burns thanked by food bank and housing charity
Author mentioned charities that helped her in prize-winning novel’s acknowledgments
Five Irish novels on Impac longlist
Books nominated by public libraries for consideration include 142 novels
Hard truths and hot faces in creative writing
Having given up my legal career in Dublin to pursue a master’s in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, now I am faced with the realities of my new path
Questions for Cúirt after middling performance
Competition is fierce on the literary festival circuit and on the evidence of last weekend Cúirt needs to do more to set itself apart
Poetry of Rita Ann Higgins on Cúirt literary trail in Galway
Booker prize winning author among participants in week-long event
The appeal of Garth Brooks is destined to remain a mystery to people like us
Opinion: The tapenade-eaters are always going to remain immune to the charms of ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’
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Brian Boyd and Emma Somers root through a bumper crop of TV, film and music to find gift ideas for the loved one who thinks they’ve seen it all
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton wins Booker prize
‘The Luminaries’ trumps Irish writer Colm Tóibín’s ‘The Testament of Mary’, his third nomination
Video: Eleanor Catton wins the Booker with The Luminaries
A sprawling narrative from the 19th-century has taken the last Booker prize of its kind
Fancy a flutter on the Man Booker? Or a punt on the Mercury music prize?
Gambling on culture is big business – and there’s an extra incentive for manipulating the odds
Colm Tóibín sole Irish contender on exciting Booker shortlist
Although The Voyage, by Murray Bail, failed to make even the longlist, this is an exciting selection
Eleanor Catton: a luminous new star in the literary constellation
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton is not yet 28, but her second novel is one of the favourites for this year’s Man Booker Prize
Will it be third-time lucky for Tóibín?
Irish writer makes Man Booker shortlist again as McCann and Ryan lose out
Three Irish novelists on tenterhooks over Booker shortlist
Donal Ryan, Colm Tóibín and Colum McCann hope to be among six nominees
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