# novel - Tuesday 26 March, 2019
We talked live to Colm O’Regan about his debut novel, Ann Devine: Ready For Her Closeup.
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# novel - Saturday 29 September, 2018
We talked to authors Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen about the book’s incredible success.
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# novel - Friday 1 December, 2017
The Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to an outstandingly bad sex scene description in an otherwise good novel.
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# novel - Sunday 22 October, 2017
A new play premiering next week ignores the usual Dracula tropes, making the story even more eerie.
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# novel - Thursday 27 July, 2017
Mike McCormack and Sebastian Barry are two of the 13 writers who made the longlist.
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# novel - Wednesday 29 March, 2017
A poem from this year’s Hennessy Awards Winner for Emerging Poetry, Una Mannion.
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# novel - Wednesday 1 February, 2017
Barry won the Costa Book of the Year award for Days Without End last night.
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# novel - Wednesday 14 December, 2016
It has been a massive year for Mike McCormack, and his publishers Tramp Press.
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# novel - Tuesday 15 November, 2016
The snooker star compared himself to Harry Potter author while promoting his new novel.
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# novel - Saturday 23 April, 2016
Dennis Jensen lost his party’s nomination earlier this month.
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# novel - Friday 31 July, 2015
And it looks like it’s going to be pretty special.
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# novel - Sunday 9 November, 2014
Louise O’Neill’s debut novel has been getting rave reviews.
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# novel - Saturday 1 November, 2014
Lots of writers in a survey said they have used funny animal views to help them get through a creative block…
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# novel - Sunday 15 June, 2014
We asked an award-winning author and his translator what it’s like to translate a best-seller from Spanish to English.
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# novel - Sunday 8 June, 2014
The author, Simon Fitzmaurice, was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease in 2008.
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# novel - Thursday 5 June, 2014
She spent more than a decade trying to get it published – and now it’s won one of the biggest prizes in literature.
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# novel - Friday 27 December, 2013
“The book that I return to, when I return to Ireland, is always Ulysses… Death takes away a lot of things, but it can’t ever take away our stories.”
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# novel - Friday 19 July, 2013
The Sunday Times newspaper revealed that the ‘Harry Potter’ author had penned the book under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
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# novel - Wednesday 22 May, 2013
The follow up to “Laura”?
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# novel - Saturday 18 May, 2013
Jim Larkin is an iconic figure in Irish history, yet when I was in school the Lockout only received a minor mention on the history syllabus – we wanted to make him more accessible, says Rory McConville.
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# novel - Wednesday 3 April, 2013
The Scottish novelist said that he did not expect to live beyond a year.
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# novel - Tuesday 15 January, 2013
David Peace has chosen the story of Liverpool’s legendary manager for his next project.
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# novel - Thursday 8 November, 2012
Binchy’s long-term agent Christine Green said it was a bittersweet day because “we want to celebrate the book but we want her to be here too”.
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# novel - Saturday 13 October, 2012
Go on, give it a go…
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# novel - Tuesday 14 August, 2012
A US university has announced the winner of a contest to find the worst-possible opening sentence to a novel. Warning: it’s pretty bad.
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# novel - Wednesday 23 May, 2012
The first trailer of Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation is out…
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# novel - Saturday 31 December, 2011
The copyright on the works of James Joyce expires on 1 January 2012 – meaning that for the first time, his published and unpublished writings will be in the public domain.
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# novel - Thursday 4 August, 2011
The British Prime Minister has picked Paul Murray’s book to bring on holidays with him.
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# novel - Thursday 9 June, 2011
Twenty-five-year-old Serbian-American Téa Obreht beat off competition from the favourite, Irish writer Emma Donoghue.
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# novel - Tuesday 31 May, 2011
5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock
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