Under Her Care is a morally charged novel about guilt and grief, the nature of justice and the choices we hope we never have to make. Ideas for novels are illusive ...

Author Pam Lecky on Embracing the Challenge of Writing in a New Genre. I grew up in a house where reading was encouraged, and devoured historical fiction, biography, ...

The Gift of Time! Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today: Mullingar writer Chele Crawley tells us how a life-threatening illness spurred to finish her debut novel. It was a shock ...

An Post Irish Book Awards unveils list featuring Top 20 Favourite Irish Books from category winners over the past two decades – as voted for by the public. Books by Claire Keegan, Sebastian ...

Another week in the Irish bestselling books charts, and we have a brand new runaway no. 1. At the top of both the Top 20 and the Children’s Top 10 we have the latest Lottie Brooks story: The ...

The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) reveal the longlists for the prestigious 2026 Dagger Awards, celebrating the very best ...

The Reading Agency today announces a landmark UK prison reading campaign, made possible with the generous support of The Henry Smith Foundation during the government-backed National Year of ...

The Evolution of American Film Music, 1960s-1990s by Wayne Byrne and Amanda Kramer. I remember one of the first instances of my being aware of a film’s score.

Competition deadline: 1st June 2026 The Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2026 is now open for submissions. Poems entered may be on any subject and in any poetic format but no more than 60 ...

Competition deadline: 27th May 2026 The Pitching Competition at the Film Fair, the industry market of the Galway Film Fleadh, ...

Some years ago I wrote “The Elvis Diaries,” a conceptual book written in the voice of “The King”. He’d always wanted to write an autobiography, intending to call it “Through My Eyes,” but never ...

Perpetual Motion: how a polyglot life between worlds shaped Vanessa Fabiano’s first book, Chinese on the Beach . . . When I first went to China in 1994, I had no intention of writing a book ...