Bella Mackie ‘It’s a fantasy, no woman is allowed to be like this anyway’
Bella Mackie talks about writing her darkly hilarious debut novel, How to Kill Your Family, that was partly inspired by her childhood love of true crime
Bella Mackie talks about writing her darkly hilarious debut novel, How to Kill Your Family, that was partly inspired by her childhood love of true crime
The French Connection won best picture but the non-fiction novel is largely forgotten
The author has been exposed as a serial liar. But how did he get away with it for so long?
Wild, Wild Country, The Deuce and Beat, plus the best from All4 and Sky Atlantic
Review: Steve McQueen tries to cram in too much good stuff – but there's no crime in that when it's such good stuff
Toronto film festival: British filmmaker honours series while imprinting his own visual stamp
Reality TV: Are Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler trying to outdo each other in unpleasantness?
Review: This adaptation of ‘Gone Girl’ author Gillian Flynn’s novel is pure American Gothic
In the new TV series ‘Sharp Objects’, Adams plays a hard-drinking, self-cutting journalist
Dark crime drama Sharp Objects features Amy Adams, while Picnic at Hanging Rock is given a six-part treatment
Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list
Donald Clarke predicts 2019’s Best Picture nominees. He was nearly half right this year
Young Irish fiction writers have made strides in recent years, and 2018 promises some fine debuts. Here six authors introduce their books
Ring out (or recommission) the old; ring in the new: here’s what to stay tuned for in the new year
In ‘Into the Water’, her follow-up to the bestseller, Hawkins writes about women’s greatest fears – so often at the hands of men. But nobody is innocent in her books
Adults spend about 20 to 25 per cent of the night in a deep ‘slow-wave’ sleep, where your body is properly relaxed and from which it’s unpleasant to be woken
Intimate, gritty novel offers a realistic account of self-harm – and a glimmer of hope
Word-of-mouth sensation has made the novelist $10m in the last year, outselling George RR Martin, but still earning a fraction of James Patterson’s $95m
Megan Abbott delivers another intense thriller about the unknowable world of teenage girls
Crime reviews: Declan Hughes on the latest from Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin and JK Galbraith and a compendium of women crime writers
Irishwoman Gillian Flynn and South African Wesley Bearpark met while both were working in Florida
Hollywood adores an ‘integrated solution’, but Oscars tension shows it losing its touch
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ makes top 100 for first time, but ‘Wimpy Kid’ dominates charts
To mark Library Ireland Week ‘The Irish Times’ surveyed the country’s libraries
Noted gloom merchant David Fincher has adapted the popcorn-ready bestseller ‘Gone Girl’. The grim result? ‘A very realistic view of marriage’
Noted gloom merchant David Fincher has adapted the popcorn-ready bestseller ‘Gone Girl’. The grim result? ‘A very realistic view of marriage’
‘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’
Brian Boyd and Emma Somers root through a bumper crop of TV, film and music to find gift ideas for the loved one who thinks they’ve seen it all
Fiftysomething: The sheer tedium of Gone Girl, ‘the thriller of the year’, will obliterate your critical faculties
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices