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Riveting reissue aged like a good wine

Riveting reissue aged like a good wine

Brief reviews of Don’t Look at Me Like That, The Manager’s Tale, Above Average at Games, Stories of the Sahara, Through Her Eyes and Shame on Me

Sat Dec 28 2019 - 00:00
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Thu Dec 19 2019 - 14:13
Witty, clever observations of modern life

Witty, clever observations of modern life

Book reviews: Three Little Truths by Eithne Shortall; Wittgenstein’s Nephew by Thomas Bernhard; Farewell Happy Fieldsby Norah Hoult and more

Sat Dec 14 2019 - 00:00
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite is Irish Times Eason offer

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite is Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages and round-up of Irish book news and events

Thu Dec 12 2019 - 11:10
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite is Irish Times Eason offer

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite is Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages and round-up of Irish book news and events

Thu Dec 05 2019 - 12:53
Christmas gifts for readers: The Irish Times guide to best books of 2019

Christmas gifts for readers: The Irish Times guide to best books of 2019

Irish writers and critics on their favourite fiction and nonfiction of the past 12 months

Sat Nov 30 2019 - 06:00
Caitriona Lally awarded $100,000 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction

Caitriona Lally awarded $100,000 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Thu Nov 28 2019 - 12:40
Edna O’Brien wins the ‘UK and Ireland Nobel award’ for lifetime achievement

Edna O’Brien wins the ‘UK and Ireland Nobel award’ for lifetime achievement

Country Girls author receives £40,000 David Cohen prize which is seen as Nobel precursor

Tue Nov 26 2019 - 20:15
Costa book awards: Joseph O’Connor shortlisted for Shadowplay

Costa book awards: Joseph O’Connor shortlisted for Shadowplay

Author last week won Irish Novel Award for his biographical fiction about Bram Stoker

Tue Nov 26 2019 - 19:30
Christopher Eccleston offers a haunting meditation on fatherhood

Christopher Eccleston offers a haunting meditation on fatherhood

Brief reviews of I Love the Bones of You, The Sea Cloak and Other Stories and Resist! How to be an Activist in the Age of Defiance

Sat Nov 23 2019 - 00:00
Redemption by David Baldacci is this weekend’s Irish Times Eason book offer

Redemption by David Baldacci is this weekend’s Irish Times Eason book offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Thu Nov 21 2019 - 11:29
An Post Irish Book Awards 2019 winners revealed

An Post Irish Book Awards 2019 winners revealed

Joseph O’Connor, Sinéad Gleeson, Joe Duffy and Freya McClements among winners

Wed Nov 20 2019 - 22:17
The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz is this week’s Irish Times Eason offer

The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz is this week’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Thu Nov 14 2019 - 12:47
Nobel and Booker Prize winners on 2020 International Dublin Literary Award longlist

Nobel and Booker Prize winners on 2020 International Dublin Literary Award longlist

Anna Burns, Sally Rooney, David Park, Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke vie for €100,000 prize

Mon Nov 11 2019 - 11:15
The Sentence Is Death by Anthony Horowitz is this weekend’s Irish Times Eason offer

The Sentence Is Death by Anthony Horowitz is this weekend’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Thu Nov 07 2019 - 14:45
Rick O’Shea takes over RTÉ’s The Book Show

Rick O’Shea takes over RTÉ’s The Book Show

A sneak preview of this Saturday’s books pages and details of our Eason book offer

Thu Oct 31 2019 - 17:24
Irish Book Awards 2019 shortlists revealed

Irish Book Awards 2019 shortlists revealed

Kevin Barry and Edna O’Brien up for Novel of the Year and Aisling authors shortlisted again

Thu Oct 24 2019 - 20:00
Dracul by Dacre Stoker with JD Barker is this weekend’s Irish Times Eason offer

Dracul by Dacre Stoker with JD Barker is this weekend’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Thu Oct 24 2019 - 16:01
Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan signs six-figure deal for first adult novel

Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan signs six-figure deal for first adult novel

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Thu Oct 17 2019 - 13:52
Cruel Acts by Jane Casey is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offer

Cruel Acts by Jane Casey is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Thu Oct 10 2019 - 17:35
‘Ciaran Carson drew Belfast better than anyone I ever read’

‘Ciaran Carson drew Belfast better than anyone I ever read’

Sinéad Morrissey, John Banville and fellow writers salute a great man and a great poet

Mon Oct 07 2019 - 17:20
Tana French’s The Wych Elm is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer

Tana French’s The Wych Elm is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Fri Oct 04 2019 - 17:14
Tana French’s The Wych Elm is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer

Tana French’s The Wych Elm is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Thu Sept 26 2019 - 12:26
Author Mark O’Connell awarded €10,000 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2019

Author Mark O’Connell awarded €10,000 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2019

To Be A Machine author won Wellcome Prize last year for exploration of transhumanism

Mon Sept 23 2019 - 18:30
The Wall by John Lanchester is this week’s Irish Times Eason offer

The Wall by John Lanchester is this week’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Thu Sept 19 2019 - 11:11
Danielle McLaughlin wins £30,000 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award

Danielle McLaughlin wins £30,000 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award

Win caps rich year for Cork author after $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize in March

Thu Sept 12 2019 - 20:30
The Wall by John Lanchester is this week’s Irish Times Eason offer

The Wall by John Lanchester is this week’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Thu Sept 12 2019 - 15:20
Faber to mark anniversary of Lyra McKee’s murder with an anthology of her work

Faber to mark anniversary of Lyra McKee’s murder with an anthology of her work

Lyra McKee: Lost, Found, Remembered will be published next April

Wed Sept 11 2019 - 09:00
‘I grew up in a weird Irish bubble. There is a lot about loss in my books’

‘I grew up in a weird Irish bubble. There is a lot about loss in my books’

Martin Doyle interviews award-winning Birmingham Irish novelist Catherine O’Flynn

Wed Sept 11 2019 - 05:42
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz is new Irish Times Eason offer

The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz is new Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Fri Sept 06 2019 - 14:36
President announces Frank Ormsby as new Ireland Professor of Poetry

President announces Frank Ormsby as new Ireland Professor of Poetry

Enniskillen poet was long-time editor of Honest Ulsterman and anthologist of Northern poetry

Fri Sept 06 2019 - 13:00
Heavyweights Atwood, Rushdie and 1,000-page epic in running for Booker Prize

Heavyweights Atwood, Rushdie and 1,000-page epic in running for Booker Prize

Winner of £50,000 prize won last year by Anna Burns to be revealed next month

Tue Sept 03 2019 - 16:40
Uncovering the mysteries and thrills of Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands

Uncovering the mysteries and thrills of Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands

A trip down the world’s tallest inflatable water slide is a heart-racing introduction

Sat Aug 31 2019 - 06:00
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz is new Irish Times Eason offer

The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz is new Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Thu Aug 29 2019 - 11:59
The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offer

The Great Wide Open by Douglas Kennedy is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Thu Aug 15 2019 - 17:52
Darkest Truth by Catherine Kirwan is this weekend’s Eason Irish Times offer

Darkest Truth by Catherine Kirwan is this weekend’s Eason Irish Times offer

A sneak preview of this Saturday’s book pages

Thu Aug 08 2019 - 15:47
Darkest Truth by Catherine Kirwan is this weekend’s Eason Irish Times offer

Darkest Truth by Catherine Kirwan is this weekend’s Eason Irish Times offer

A sneak preview of this Saturday’s book pages

Thu Aug 01 2019 - 08:00
Kevin Barry longlisted for 2019 Booker Prize

Kevin Barry longlisted for 2019 Booker Prize

Former winners Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie longlisted for prize won last year by Anna Burns

Wed Jul 24 2019 - 00:01
Crime writers mystified by Colm Tóibín’s criticism

Crime writers mystified by Colm Tóibín’s criticism

Literary author’s dismissal of genre fiction provokes backlash

Mon Jul 22 2019 - 16:50
The Conspiracy that Shook an Empire: The Phoenix Park assassinations

The Conspiracy that Shook an Empire: The Phoenix Park assassinations

Browser review: Julie Dobrow, After Emily; How We Disappeared; Listening to Animals

Sat Jul 20 2019 - 00:00
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason book offer

When All Is Said by Anne Griffin is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason book offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s book pages

Thu Jul 11 2019 - 14:35
The support act’s T-shirt shrank so Fatboy Slim made me a mixtape

The support act’s T-shirt shrank so Fatboy Slim made me a mixtape

How culture bridges borders, from the Troubles to Brexit, from the Housemartins in 1986 to Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott in 2019

Tue Jul 09 2019 - 05:55
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason book offer

When All Is Said by Anne Griffin is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason book offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s book pages

Thu Jul 04 2019 - 15:52
The plot thickens: A list of less than accurate summaries of famous novels

The plot thickens: A list of less than accurate summaries of famous novels

We wrongly described Milkman by Anna Burns as being “about a young woman’s affair with a married man in Troubles-era Belfast”. Here are some more gross acts of description

Mon Jul 01 2019 - 14:43
‘If you are going to find grace anywhere, it is going to be in art’

‘If you are going to find grace anywhere, it is going to be in art’

Emily Ruskovich, International Dublin Literary Award winner, on her Idaho novel, redemption, forgiveness and her deep belief in the idea of a soul

Sat Jun 22 2019 - 07:00
Irish poets Seán Hewitt and James Conor Patterson win Eric Gregory Awards

Irish poets Seán Hewitt and James Conor Patterson win Eric Gregory Awards

Norma MacMaster (81) is Paul Torday Memorial Prize runner-up

Mon Jun 17 2019 - 20:30
‘I sometimes feel like I’m the only spy writer who never worked for the Secret Service’

‘I sometimes feel like I’m the only spy writer who never worked for the Secret Service’

Mick Herron has been dubbed the le Carré of his generation for his Slough House series

Sat Jun 15 2019 - 06:05
The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton is this week’s Irish Times Eason offer

The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton is this week’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Thu Jun 13 2019 - 12:09
Debut US author Emily Ruskovich (33) wins €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award

Debut US author Emily Ruskovich (33) wins €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award

‘The recognition is life-changing. The money will give me time. As a writer, that’s so precious’

Wed Jun 12 2019 - 19:01
The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer

The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Thu Jun 06 2019 - 17:37
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