Seán O’Connor on the gentle world of the book industry and a distinctly decent sub-species of the human raceThis week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we have a daily Q&A with a debut authorFri Aug 08 2014 - 12:00
Léan Cullinan on learning to love rewritingThis week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we have a daily Q&A with a debut authorThu Aug 07 2014 - 12:00
Darragh McKeon on standing in the margins, beyond influence or affiliationThis week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we have a daily Q&A with a debut authorWed Aug 06 2014 - 12:00
Liz Nugent on getting published in the most difficult period ever for the industryThis week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we will have a daily Q&A with a debut authorTue Aug 05 2014 - 12:00
Brought to Book: Mary Morrissy on Alice Munro, Jane Eyre and James Wood‘I write at home in a small study that used to be the spare bedroom until I jettisoned the bed and forced guests to sleep on a sofabed in the living room’Mon Jun 30 2014 - 01:00
Arise, Sir John! France honours BanvilleBestselling literary author receives second major award in a monthTue Jun 24 2014 - 17:06
Brought to Book: Jonathan Meades on the trial and execution of Tony Blair‘Learn the word for everything and remember them. Learn the rules and forget them’Tue Jun 24 2014 - 12:00
Brought To Book: Yvonne Cassidy – ‘Find your own voice, don’t write for other people’‘Don’t worry about getting published, or getting an agent or any of that, just write until you are finished. You can’t control these external factors, but you can control the focus and time you put into your own work’Mon Jun 23 2014 - 12:00
Brought to Book: Jane Casey on Donna Tartt, Maeve Brennan and avoiding the twist‘If I love a book, I want to own a print version of it. My (huge) collection is like a physical manifestation of what furnishes my brain’Sun Jun 22 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book: Paul Lynch - ‘Each one of us is a labyrinth of complexity’‘It sounds strange to say, but when I read Don DeLillo’s Underworld in my early twenties, I just knew I would be a writer’Fri Jun 20 2014 - 01:00
Brought to book: Bonnie Greer on Hemingway, Borges and Anne Frank‘Critics, especially legacy critics, are important for sales, prizes, maybe longevity. But they don’t tell you about writing or if you can do it. It’s business’Thu Jun 19 2014 - 12:00
Carys Bray on Mormon stories, ‘The Stone Diaries’ and writing the fun bits first‘I think reading has helped me to develop empathy. I love trying on other lives’Wed Jun 18 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book – Alison Jameson: ‘Your own inner voice might be the biggest challenge facing you. Learn to “shush” it’‘I wish I’d read The Catcher in the Rye earlier as I think I would have written more then. I had things to say as a youngster but I didn’t think they would be worth reading’Mon Jun 16 2014 - 11:31
Brought to Book – Miriam Toews: ‘Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!’‘I wanted to do a Masters degree in Irish literature but I ended up getting pregnant instead’Mon Jun 16 2014 - 01:37
Oxford English Dictionary selects 100 words that define first World WarThe term First World War itself was first recorded on September 10th, 1918Fri Jun 13 2014 - 10:57
Brought to Book: Rob Doyle on Keith Talent, Nietzsche’s morals and stone-cold classics‘I’m grateful to the authors of shorter books, because my concentration is shot from the internet and all the coffee’Fri Jun 13 2014 - 01:00
NI photography book wins Irish-American prizeTitle showcases significant works by more than 50 photographersThu Jun 12 2014 - 14:30
Brought to Book: John Boyne on Noddy, Homer Wells, ‘Birdsong’ and a Kindle tip‘I am at my happiest when I have completed a first draft of a novel and am about to begin a second’Fri Jun 06 2014 - 01:00
Baileys winner Eimear McBride puts it up to publishers‘Large publishing houses should siphon off some of their vast wealth to champion experimental fiction’Thu Jun 05 2014 - 13:14
John Banville is first Irish author to win €50,000 Asturias awardHis alter ego Benjamin Black is also praisedWed Jun 04 2014 - 17:21
Sara Baume wins €15,000 Davy Byrnes short story awardWriter beats two published novelists to follow in distinguished footsteps of Anne Enright and Claire KeeganTue Jun 03 2014 - 18:30
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’Mon Jun 02 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book: Vona Groarke on the unbearable lightness of reviews‘What has being a writer taught me? Precision. Restraint. Slyness. Envy. Thrift. The value of a good noun’Fri May 30 2014 - 01:00
Eimear McBride wins €15,000 Kerry Group Irish novel of the year award‘A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing’ author has already won Goldsmiths Prize and been shortlisted for Baileys, Folio and Desmond Elliott prizesWed May 28 2014 - 20:00
UCD honours Maeve Binchy with €4,000 travel award for creative writingInaugural winner to explore the 31 regions of the BBC shipping forecastTue May 27 2014 - 15:33
Eimear McBride shortlisted for another major prize‘A Girl is a Half-formed Thing’ author won Goldsmiths Prize and made shortlist for Folio Prize and Baileys Women’s PrizeMon May 26 2014 - 13:07
Brought to Book: Rebecca Reid on incest, American noir and writing under the duvet‘Never write what you think people want to read. Write what is inside you and follow it through every time, because that’s where the essence of true writing comes to life’Mon May 26 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book: Brian Conaghan on Yossarian, The Fault in our Stars and Catcher in the Rye‘As long as people have eyes there will always be a publishing industry. Don’t believe all the scaremongering that modern technology is taking over’Fri May 23 2014 - 01:00
Hassan Blasim becomes first Arab writer to win Independent Foreign Fiction Prize‘The Iraqi Christ’, which presents Iraq as a surrealist inferno, has yet to be published in its original ArabicThu May 22 2014 - 19:30
Brought to Book: Sheila Agnew on Middlemarch’s wisdom and the title that brought her homeThe rewards of being a writer outweigh the wages she earned as a Manhattan lawyerThu May 22 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book: Laura Dockrill on the BFG, Struwwelpeter and why dead drunk men are her ideal dinner party guests‘I see my writing as completely creative and free-flowing. I try not to attack it like work’Wed May 21 2014 - 11:31
The F word: Failure is theme of this weekend’s Children’s Books Ireland conferenceEoin Colfer, the new Laureate na nOg, to give his first public addressWed May 21 2014 - 11:03
Brought to Book: Anakana Schofield on parallel reading, the literary patriarchy and books as portals‘I write in a very troubling manner that I wouldn’t advise anyone to adopt’Mon May 19 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book: Joseph O’Connor on why reading is a more creative act than writing‘If there is a Hell being prepared for me, it will be a dinner party. But I’d like to be in a bar, late at night in New York, with Colm Toibin, Patti Smith, Dickens, St John of the Cross, Toni Morrison, Keats and Emily Bronte, with her brother Branwell leading the singsong while arm-wrestling’Fri May 16 2014 - 12:00
Brought to Book: RTÉ’s Sinead Crowley on her debut novel and literary lovesI didn’t set out to write a book in a particular genre but there are a lot of ‘domestic noir’ books being written at the moment, psychological thrillers aimed primarily at women, and my book falls into that categoryMon May 12 2014 - 15:38
Debutant Irish author wins children’s book prizeErika McCann scoops Waverton Good Read Children’s AwardFri May 09 2014 - 14:46
Joseph O’Connor shortlisted for comic novel of the yearSebastian Faulks, Hanif Kureishi and Helen Fielding are rivals for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse PrizeTue May 06 2014 - 23:59
Hubert Mingarelli bares his literary soulThe French author has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014 for ‘A Meal in Winter’, an elegant meditation on the HolocaustMon May 05 2014 - 01:00
Hiromi Kawakami briefs us on her literary lifeJapanese author has been shortlisted for 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeMon May 05 2014 - 01:00
Irish authors step out of James Joyce’s shadow to take on DublinersAdaptations by Pat McCabe, Donal Ryan, Eimear McBride, John Boyne and Paul Murray mark centenary of publicationWed Apr 30 2014 - 15:54
Brought to Book: Linda Spalding on her literary life‘I had to remould my brain to write “The Follow”. It involved three trips to Borneo and years of reading and studying and thinking hard about human beings and our place in the natural world’Mon Apr 28 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book: Sinan Antoon on his literary lifeLiterature touches the lives of fellow humans in a very visceral wayMon Apr 21 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book: Andrej Longo on his literary lifeReviews are essential. I enjoy looking at my book as if I were another personMon Apr 14 2014 - 15:03
First-time Irish authors rise to top of Baileys shortlistAudrey Magee and Eimear McBride in running for £30,000 prizeMon Apr 07 2014 - 19:15
Brought to Book: Laura Lippman on our hunger for meaningFormer reporter says novelists make a fetish of research – ‘it’s not that hard’Mon Apr 07 2014 - 01:00
Brought to Book: Birgit Vanderbeke on her literary life‘I read the most important books when I was young. That’s probably because reading plays a bigger role when you are growing up. It has never regained the same importance for me since then’Mon Mar 31 2014 - 01:00
What books define Ireland for you?A new book lists 31 definitive texts. Are the authors right? And what should be the 32nd?Wed Mar 26 2014 - 15:21
Brought to book: John BanvilleThe first in a new weekly series interrogating authors about all things literary: ‘I should have made it all up. The world imagined is always more convincing than the world researched’Thu Mar 13 2014 - 06:00
