Rachael English ensured the 70-year-old woman in her novel on mother and baby homes is a strong and resilient character, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Author Emma Hannigan's final novel, written in the final months of her life prior to her death last March, is to be published next year.

The world stage premiere of the award-winning novel Asking For It will be performed in Cork next year.

Author Emma Grey woke up to the preciousness of life when her husband died from a heart attack. Here she tells Áilín Quinlan the secret to achieving big things is to focus on finding the nooks and crannies in your day.

Dublin-born Sebastian Barry has won the 2016 Costa Book of the Year award.

David Grossman, bestselling author of Falling Out Of Time and To The End Of The Land, has been called the finest Israeli novelist writing today.

When Jane Chisolm was born on a farm in rural America, she was, as her doctor often told her, a ‘normal girl’. There was only one thing that made her different — a genital birth defect, that made her incontinent and unable to have sex.

After what seemed like a dream job in the ‘Sunday Tribune’, Deirdre Purcell left to pursue fiction writing. Sue Leonard sits down to chat with her follwoing the launch of her 14th novel. 

The Indian-American novelist Akhil Sharma has won the International Dublin Literary Award for his second novel, Family Life. He is the 21st winner of the €100,000 prize.

An upcoming TV version has taken liberties with Lady Chatterley’s Lover, not least toning down some of the language, writes Susan Griffin.

Morrissey is to release his debut novel 'List of the Lost' in September.

Could you be the next J.K Rowling?

The Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vasquez has won the 2014 Impac Dublin Award for his novel The Sound of Things Falling.

Twelve-year-old schoolgirl Fiona Buckley will be hitting the books as usual next Friday — but on a grander scale. She’ll be reading from her newly-published novel as part of Listowel Writers’ Week.

A novel about the troubled adolescence of five sisters was the inspiration behind an award-winning collection by a talented young fashion student.