Bella Mackie ‘It’s a fantasy, no woman is allowed to be like this anyway’
Bella Mackie talks about writing her darkly hilarious debut novel, How to Kill Your Family, that was partly inspired by her childhood love of true crime
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The French Connection won best picture but the non-fiction novel is largely forgotten
Dan Mallory, the fiction writer who made up stories about his own life
The author has been exposed as a serial liar. But how did he get away with it for so long?
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Wild, Wild Country, The Deuce and Beat, plus the best from All4 and Sky Atlantic
Widows: funny, twisty, implausible heist caper delivers unashamed thrills
Review: Steve McQueen tries to cram in too much good stuff – but there's no crime in that when it's such good stuff
McQueen’s ‘Widows’ so consistently funny that flaws hardly matter
Toronto film festival: British filmmaker honours series while imprinting his own visual stamp
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Reality TV: Are Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler trying to outdo each other in unpleasantness?
Sharp Objects: A numbed Amy Adams leads a double life
Review: This adaptation of ‘Gone Girl’ author Gillian Flynn’s novel is pure American Gothic
Amy Adams: ‘I have this internal voice that is just not a cheerleader for myself’
In the new TV series ‘Sharp Objects’, Adams plays a hard-drinking, self-cutting journalist
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Dark crime drama Sharp Objects features Amy Adams, while Picnic at Hanging Rock is given a six-part treatment
100 books by women you have to read
Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list
Which films will be up for next year’s Oscars? These ones will
Donald Clarke predicts 2019’s Best Picture nominees. He was nearly half right this year
Meet the bright young things of Irish writing
Young Irish fiction writers have made strides in recent years, and 2018 promises some fine debuts. Here six authors introduce their books
From Derry Girls to Cork offenders: unmissable TV for 2018
Ring out (or recommission) the old; ring in the new: here’s what to stay tuned for in the new year
Girl on The Train’s Paula Hawkins: ‘People think terrible things’
In ‘Into the Water’, her follow-up to the bestseller, Hawkins writes about women’s greatest fears – so often at the hands of men. But nobody is innocent in her books
How do you get a better night’s sleep? Stop thinking about it
Adults spend about 20 to 25 per cent of the night in a deep ‘slow-wave’ sleep, where your body is properly relaxed and from which it’s unpleasant to be woken
Girl in Pieces review: writing that makes the cut
Intimate, gritty novel offers a realistic account of self-harm – and a glimmer of hope
Girl on the Train author Paula Hawkins makes world's richest writers list
Word-of-mouth sensation has made the novelist $10m in the last year, outselling George RR Martin, but still earning a fraction of James Patterson’s $95m
You Will Know Me review: Female adolescent noir hits a literary high point
Megan Abbott delivers another intense thriller about the unknowable world of teenage girls
New crime: Bosch and Rebus dust off their gumshoes
Crime reviews: Declan Hughes on the latest from Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin and JK Galbraith and a compendium of women crime writers
Our Wedding Story: Clonmel meets Capetown at Lyrath Estate
Irishwoman Gillian Flynn and South African Wesley Bearpark met while both were working in Florida
Sony Pictures promoting movies on the Telegraph is not surprising
Hollywood adores an ‘integrated solution’, but Oscars tension shows it losing its touch
‘Strumpet City’ most borrowed book from public libraries in 2013
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ makes top 100 for first time, but ‘Wimpy Kid’ dominates charts
Survey reveals the most borrowed library books in Ireland
To mark Library Ireland Week ‘The Irish Times’ surveyed the country’s libraries
David Fincher, the unflinching auteur
Noted gloom merchant David Fincher has adapted the popcorn-ready bestseller ‘Gone Girl’. The grim result? ‘A very realistic view of marriage’
David Fincher, the unflinching auteur
Noted gloom merchant David Fincher has adapted the popcorn-ready bestseller ‘Gone Girl’. The grim result? ‘A very realistic view of marriage’
Brought to Book: Viv Albertine on Cocteau, Ono, Austen and Catherine the Great’s horse
‘Don’t waffle. Be honest. Write so you’re ashamed. Edit it about 20 times, get another three professional people to edit it. Edit it another 10 times’
That’s entertainment: our bumper TV, film and music roundup
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
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