The Easter Book Quiz: What did Ben-Hur author Lew Wallace do for a living?
What is the name of the popular US series of End Times-themed Christian novels?
The Books Quiz: Who wrote All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming?
A seasonal Yuletide literary quiz that doesn’t include a Christmas Carol question
The Books Quiz: What kind of creature is Slappy in RL Stine’s Goosebumps novels?
To celebrate Halloween, a special quiz on literature creepy/kooky/mysterious/spooky
The Books Quiz: Who is Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s erotic ‘lesbian vampire’?
The weekly challenge: 10 questions to test your literary knowledge
The Books Quiz: What is Bram Stoker’s Dracula short story called?
The weekly challenge: 10 questions to test your literary knowledge
Irish family in India: ‘Stray dogs and monkeys have taken over the roads at night’
Covid-19: As Ireland went into lockdown, Sean Brady flew to a country of 1.3bn people
Teen nostalgia: Self-soothing through the pandemic with Hannah Montana
My locked-down teenagers are embracing the comfort TV of their childhoods
Paperbacks
The Four Elements, Brooklyn Heights, In the Garden of Beasts, Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse, Gealach
Paperback of the week
Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel Peter L Winkler The Robson Press, £12.99
Browser nonfiction
Greta Garbo: Divine Star, Dion Boucicault: Irish Identity on Stage, Irish and English: Essays on the Irish Linguistic and Cultural Frontier, 1600-1900
Browser nonfiction
The Time Has Come: Ger McDonnell – His Life and Death on K2, Carole King’s A Natural Woman: A Memoir, Wilkie Collins
Paperbacks: our picks of the latest releases
The Folded Earth, Ten Stories About Smoking, A Widow’s Story, Nowhere to Run, That Unearthly Valley: A Donegal Childhood
