The Hard Crowd: Everything is turning to gold
Book review: Enthralling collection of essays from the acclaimed novelist Rachel Kushner
Acts of Desperation: Bracing, poignant and devastatingly accurate
Book review: Megan Nolan’s ‘raw’ debut novel of a young woman’s awakening
Megan Nolan: ‘Dublin wasn’t ever good for me’
The Irish writer is one of the best regarded of her generation
Roddy Doyle: ‘My unpublished first novel was sh*te’
He knew this because, when he started writing The Commitments, he knew it was good
Ian McEwan to publish new ‘biting political Brexit satire’
Out this month, The Cockroach sees a man wake up as prime minister, hellbent on a mission to carry out the will of the people
Meet the French gardener who wants to save Irish soil
Tanguy de Toulgoët’s Co Laois plot is a flower-filled, hugely productive family garden
Take a little time with the dahlias to keep the garden in bloom
Important to deadhead, water and liquid feed container-grown flowering plants
You Know You Want This review: sex, shame and desire explored
Cat Person author Kristen Roupenian’s short stories chronicle modern sexual politics
Leading authors tell Man Booker to drop American writers
Top Irish writers part of Folio Academy which say prizes should be closed to US novelists
Shortlists announced for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017
Among the nominees are Ryan Tubridy, Cecelia Ahern, John Banville, Molly McCloskey, Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
Roddy Doyle: ‘The work I’ve done? If I wasn’t me, I’d be impressed’
The Dubliner on the savagery of school, how being famous is easy in Ireland, and getting older
Eileen Battersby: Booker shortlist not the canvas it could be
‘Big’ may have seduced Man Booker 2015 judges, while Anne Enright left on longlist
10 summer releases to watch out for
New novels from Milan Kundera, Paul Murray and Nuala Ní Chonchúir are among the season's highlights
Kill your darlings: the importance of editing
No editor has time to look at a novel twice. Leading editors offer advice to help writers make the most of their one shot
Mayo writer Colin Barrett wins Frank O’Connor award with debut collection
Barrett is just second Irish winner of the €25,000 prize, after Edna O’Brien
Choose your future. Choose life. Choose a different book to read: The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins
Judging by his new novel, it may be time for ‘Trainspotting’ author Irvine Welsh to pipe down
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