From remembrance ceremony to murder, the final hours of Sir Henry Wilson
How two republicans gunned down a hero of the first World War on his own doorstep
In 12 days Ireland went from fledgling democracy to civil war
How the independent state in 1922 went from democratic general election to disaster
Written in clear-eyed anger: Harold Pinter’s anti-war poems
Slaughter in Ukraine sent me back to poems Pinter wrote about US-led invasion of Iraq
Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You tops Irish and British book charts
Irish author’s novel has sold over 12,000 copies in Ireland and over 40,000 in UK
The Paper Lantern: Timely and considered account of a country in crisis
Book review: Will Burns’s novel highlights inequalities and issues of modern society
Translated fiction round-up: Perspectives from the Egyptian revolution, a Murakami collection and more
Reviews: Distant Sunflower Fields, The Story of a Goat, The Fool and Other Moral Tales, The Republic of False Truths, First Person Singular, Heaven
How The Irish Times reviewed ‘an impressive young Ulster poet’ named Seamus Heaney in 1966
Michael Longley’s review of Death of a Naturalist was not entirely uncritical
Lenny Henry: ‘When a grown-up beats you, all you think is, when is this going to stop?’
The comedian on how racist abuse and his mother’s violence shaped him as a performer and activist
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
How traditional bookshops survived the Amazon onslaught
Those who were caught in the rapids went under, the more nimble adapted
‘Lyra McKee may be dead, but she will not be lost and she will not be silenced’
The murdered writer cared about breaking silences, writes her publisher, Faber’s Louisa Joyner
An Evening with Edna O’Brien tops One City One Book 2019 events
Programme launched for Dublin festival, this year celebrating ‘The Country Girls Trilogy’
Anna Burns: ‘It’s nice to feel I’m solvent. That’s a huge gift’
The Man Booker winner on scraping by as a writer, and growing up during the Troubles
Booker winner Anna Burns thanked by food bank and housing charity
Author mentioned charities that helped her in prize-winning novel’s acknowledgments
Seamus Heaney, our dad the poet, by Catherine, Chris and Mick Heaney
For his family, choosing 100 poems from a long career, was weighted with memories
Enda Walsh: Grief is the Thing with Feathers floored me
Max Porter's acclaimed novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers is being adapted for the stage by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy
Chronicler of mean streets, rough sleepers and broken people
Willy Vlautin writes novels and sings songs about the growing darkness of American life
Peter Carey: The novel that made everybody ‘wildly worried’
The double Booker winner’s new work has its roots in Australia’s dark colonial past
Sally Rooney wins Young Writer of the Year award
Irish writer becomes joint youngest winner of the Sunday Times prize with ‘Conversations With Friends’
Goldie: ‘I wouldn’t be seen dead without OK Computer’
The English DJ and musician reveals his favourite books, films, visual artist and more
Sugar Money review: vivid depiction of Caribbean slavery
Jane Harris’s third novel is an unashamedly old-school adventure story in the vein of Robert Louis Stevenson
Sgt Pepper’s: when The Beatles got high on pomposity
Who knows when Sgt Pepper by The Beatles was first declared the greatest LP of all time? It’s not even their best
Glam rock was about much more than glitz and hits
How the sexually ambivalent David Bowie and Marc Bolan subverted rock’s patriarchy
Man Booker prize: Paul Beatty wins with The Sellout
Author wins for satire on race in the US and becomes first American to win prize
Edna O’Brien: ‘I was lonely, cut off from the dance of life’
The controversial author’s latest novel sees a woman fall for an outsider with a dark past
Turning true crime into true blue fiction
Eoin McNamee’s ‘blue’ novels explore Northern Ireland before the Troubles
Peter Swanson: ‘Being lost in a book is one of the greatest feelings in the world’
Brought to Book Q&A: Author of The Kind Worth Killing on Harry Potter, Lucky Jim and his other favourite reads
Writer PD James dies at the age of 94
Novelist best know for the Adam Dalgliesh series wrote her first novel in 1962
Buzzing London hackathon brings the future to book
A weekend-long workshop event in London generated new ideas about using digital technology in new ways for publishing
The Consolations of Economics. Gerard Lyone. Faber & Faber. €22.99
Economist takes a positive view of the prospects for the world economy and society in the coming decades
Brought to book: Chris Pavone
What writing trends have struck you lately? Pornography! I’m astounded at how many women want to read explicit descriptions of sex.
Twenty-five titles to pack this summer
From John le Carré’s latest to Rachael English’s debut, there’s something for everyone in our selection of books for the beach
Deirdre Madden on space and time
Deirdre Madden’s new novel is about a slippery subject. But it’s far from being weird, obscure or overly philosophical
Lucy Caldwell: Drawing on dynamics, from Belfast to Iraq
Lucy Caldwell’s latest novel is inspired by an ancestor’s dramatic life, and her own career has taken her from the stage to the page and recently to Iraq
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