‘We came home to find our house on fire. I had a newborn and two toddlers at the time’
Amanda Cassidy on her latest thriller, The Stranger Inside; her big US and UK book deal; and her love of the character Tom Ripley
Gate announces cast for Poor
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Big game energy in South Africa: I am struck by the palpable love South Africans have for their land
From safari pilgrimages in KwaZulu-Natal to ‘goofy’ surfing in Durban, South Africa offers pleasures rare and enticing
Author Joseph Birchall: ‘Crime fiction can bring us something we don’t often see in reality - justice’
With one novel published and two more on the way, the author discusses the investigating duo he created, his brush with cinema success and the best writing advice he’s heard
Alvy Carragher and Ali Choudhary win Eavan Boland Award 2025
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Miami Showband massacre 50 years on: ‘The trauma lasts for ever’ – Stephen Travers
British collusion was systemic in Troubles, survivor says, and went far higher than UDR foot soldiers
Booker Prize longlist 2025 ‘alive with great characters and narrative surprises’, says chair of judges Roddy Doyle
Trinidadian-Irish author Claire Adam and former winner Kiran Desai on most international list ever
Forest Fest 2025: stars align to send feelgood festival fans home happy
It was all about the music at Forest Fest in the picturesque village of Emo in Co Laois
Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick: ‘With picture books, I’m ruthless, and that has carried over into my novel’
The writer and illustrator reveals the first book in her new fantasy series - The Museum of Lost Umbrellas
Lucy Steeds’ The Artist wins Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
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New Laureate for fiction Éilís Ní Dhuibhne: ‘I was part of a movement of women writers of Ireland’
The new Laureate for Irish Fiction on language, grief and how reading a book as Gaeilge isn’t as hard as you think
Aisling Rawle: The Compound novel is ‘dark satire of reality television’
The Leitrim author’s debut novel sees 19 reality TV contestants isolated in the desert
Amanda Cassidy signs big book deal
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Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is new Laureate for Irish Fiction
The writer takes over the laureateship from author Colm Tóibín
Damien Dempsey at Iveagh Gardens: Euphoric crowd revels in ‘summer singsong’
Honest, impassioned singer gives a powerful performance on a warm evening in Dublin