Timothy O’Grady: ‘You feel miserable most of the time when you’re writing’
O’Grady discusses his fourth book, Monaghan, working on Stephen Rea’s memoir and the current political climate in the US
Barley Patch by Gerald Murnane: An intense single-mindedness
This is a book of fiction explaining why he has stopped writing fiction. How very Murnane
Robert Plunket: A man in full re-emerges into the literary ferment
Penguin Classics set to reissue author’s 1983 novel, My Search for Warren Harding
Booker winner Samantha Harvey: ‘My grandad bought land in Donegal. He was afraid of nuclear war, and thought Ireland would be exempt’
British writer Samantha Harvey on winning of the Booker Prize for Orbital, taking Earth for granted, coping with insomnia and her Irish connections
Jonathan Coe: ‘The morning after the election felt like waking up in a safe room, having been in an abusive relationship for 14 years’
Following the release of his latest novel, The Proof of My Innocence, the author discusses his ‘stylistic homecoming’, the evolution of Liz Truss and why he’s spending more time with his ‘imaginary friends’
Andrew Michael Hurley: ‘I’m a very lapsed Catholic ... but I think horror and supernatural stories fill that gap’
The author on his quick success with his debut novel The Loney and his new book Barrowbeck
David Peace: ‘The Munich air crash was a national tragedy. But it’s also a positive story of how people overcame that tragedy’
The author of Munichs on football as ‘a novelist’s gold mine’, channelling James Joyce, and his Corbynista’s take on Starmer’s Labour
Austin Duffy: ‘The book isn’t precisely set in Dundalk, but it’s the same neck of the woods’
Author of Cross on his novel set against the IRA ceasefire, ideology, empathy and the influence of his job as a doctor on his writing
Dublin Literary Award 2024 winner Mircea Cărtărescu: ‘It’s one of the greatest prizes I’ve ever won’
Romanian author and his translator Sean Cotter on significance of receiving world’s biggest prize for single work of fiction published in English
‘In Trinidad we always get on well with Irish people, we both love storytelling’
Ingrid Persaud on the real-life bogeyman of her new novel, coming late to writing and Trinidad’s affinity with Ireland
Sebastian Barry and Emma Donoghue shortlisted for Dublin Literary Award 2024
Unusually varied list also includes Jonathan Escoffery’s debut, If I Survive You
Gabriel Gárcia Márquez is not the first writer to be ‘betrayed’ in death. The list of literary treachery is long
Many authors have been published despite their last wishes. The Colombian novelist has become the latest victim of a kind of literary treachery
American Mother: The many questions behind James Foley’s killing
Colum McCann and Diane Foley tell the story of her son’s kidnapping by Islamic State
Hard by a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili: Conflict, escape, a family split by war – and we’re still on the first page
Despite some weaknesses, this quest novel set in post-Soviet Georgia is tough, funny and pacy
Sigrid Nunez: ‘When my narrator is giving her thoughts, those essayistic parts are always completely identified with me’
It’s been a difficult few years for us all, that’s for sure. A big part of that recent difficulty informs Nunez’s new novel The Vulnerables