The Irish Times

Character building: how to write believable people

If you doubt your characters, your readers will doubt them too, so it is important to understand characters’ motivation and make their behaviour and speech convincing

Mon Jun 02 2014 - 01:00

Would you like to write a book?

Over the next 12 weeks we’ll be getting the help of successful authors to explain everything would-be writers need to know. This is the first step to your debut novel

Sat May 17 2014 - 01:00

Young British novelists: The best young writers who have been taken for Granta

Granta has published its list of the best young British novelists, but can one publisher define a generation and what do young writers have over their older colleagues?

Mon Apr 15 2013 - 21:01