Author Lisa Harding: ‘I have never been scared to look at the dark side of life’
The novelist on her latest book, Wildelings; her penchant for unlikeable characters; and how her acting background is a boon to her writing
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Oliver Callan’s mood darkens: ‘In this incredibly rich country of ours we get this’
Radio: RTÉ host hears about waiting-list misery as Kieran Cuddihy exchanges tart words with Minister for Health
Eoin McNamee: On My Culture Radar
The writer on Bob Kelly in Tintown, actor Amybeth McNulty and Eily O’Connell’s jewellery
Furious Hours review: A mannerly account of Harper Lee’s trial run
Casey Cep’s book on author’s true crime project is bogged down by fact-checked stasis
Last Stories by William Trevor is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offer
A sneak preview of this Saturday’s books pages
Anna Burns: From relative unknown to Man Booker prize winner
‘Milkman’ author has been praised for her ‘dazzingly inventive’ writing approach
Man Booker Prize: Belfast writer Anna Burns wins for ‘Milkman’
First Irish writer to win prestigious £50,000 award since Anne Enright in 2007
Canadian ambassador Kevin Vickers launches Arctic novel
Attempt to find Northwest Passage setting for Ed O’Loughlin’s new book Minds of Winter
Ireland’s other Law Library
The professions of writer and lawyer share lots of similarities so it is perhaps no surprise that so many Irish lawyers venture into fiction. Sarah Gilmartin hears the evidence
Ten great Northern Irish novels you might have missed
Authors are using new ways of writing to reflect a changed political environment
Eoin McNamee: a capital crime writer
A decade after writing The Blue Tango about a real-life murder, the author revisited another crime scene in Orchid Blue. Martin Doyle interviews a true great of true crime
Northern Irish noir – the crime of Cain and the cult of Calvin
The Patricia Curran case has all the attributes of classic noir, says Eoin McNamee. It is easy to imagine the whole affair transposed from Belfast to 1950s Los Angeles, Black Dahlia territory
Eoin McNamee’s Blue is the Night wins €15,000 Kerry Group Irish Novel of Year Award
Paul Muldoon wins €5,000 Pigott Poetry Prize for One Thousand Things Worth Knowing at ceremony to mark opening of Listowel Writers’ Week
Blue is the Night by Eoin McNamee is the new Irish Times Book Club choice
Win one of 12 signed copies of what author David Peace called ‘a genuine, original masterpiece’
Ifta 2015 film and drama nominees announced
‘Frank’ with Michael Fassbender and ‘Patrick’s Day’ with Moe Dunford top nominations
Turning true crime into true blue fiction
Eoin McNamee’s ‘blue’ novels explore Northern Ireland before the Troubles
New Irish Writing comes to ‘The Irish Times’
The page founded by David Marcus, which launched the careers of many of our best known writers, has found a new home
The L factor: a literary ambassador for Ireland
Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction
Television: The thin blue line between plods and plodding
Review: An original TG4 thriller and the always gritty ‘Scott & Bailey’ bring life to old formulas. But ‘Lewis’ is just old
Mixed reaction from writers over death of intractable icon
Arts community praises Paisley’s vitality, but some find it hard to forgive his divisive role
Death in paradise: Adrian McKinty and the strange case of the Cocovores
The crime writer has turned away from Northern Ireland for his new novel, about a murder in a German nudist religious cult in the South Pacific a century ago
Stranger than fiction: when crime captures the imagination
Nicola White’s new novel ‘In the Rosary Garden’ was inspired by the Kerry Babies tribunal and the Ann Lovett case. We recommend some other real-life fiction from Ireland and abroad
NI Arts Council funds Lough Derg: the musical and Hurricane Higgins: the novel
Colin Bateman and Eoin McNamee among four artists to receive £15,000 awards
Killer instinct: a golden age of Irish crime fiction
Irish crime writing is booming. Ahead of a weekend festival, some of the writers who have their fingerprints all over this crime wave discuss the reasons behind it
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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