Simon Prim is owner of Simon Prim Book Shop, Main Street, Kinsale, Co Cork, which sells second-hand books.

Always good at creative writing, Ciaran parted company with school before taking his A levels. After a while he left Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh for Glasgow to attend drama school. Then, moving to London, he began to act, and has been doing so ever since.

In his epic new tome that spans 70 years, John Boyne examines growing up gay in Ireland and the associated trials and tribulations. He talks to Sue Leonard

Brought up as the eldest of seven, Clár was always interested in words. 

A former detective with Scotland Yard has claimed police covered up an Irish serial killer who stalked and murdered 18 people on the London Underground.

Solo

Daniel Day-Lewis is wanted for the role of James Bond.

THE FIRST thing you see when you walk into the James Bond exhibition Designing 007 — 50 Years of Bond Style, in London, is a dead body, a naked, gold, female dead body, face down on a bed.

At 59, William Boyd has done it all, but a thirst for knowledge and a curious disposition keeps him writing, as an entertained Sue Leonard discovers

The Lewis Man

Detective drama 'Sherlock' was a double winner at the TV Baftas - but a newcomer beat its star to the best actor award.

Kim Cattrall and Gillian Anderson have signed up to new Channel 4 drama series ‘Any Human Heart’.

SOME of the biggest names in literature are competing for the inaugural €50,000 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize, it emerged yesterday.

Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun today scooped the world’s richest literary prize for a work published in English.

A SHORTLIST of 10 books for the 2004 IMPAC Literary Award was announced in Dublin yesterday.

Dublin Lord Mayor Royston Brady has unveiled the shortlist for this year’s ninth annual International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

The shortlist for the Booker Prize was unveiled today – and there was a surprise omission for author Zadie Smith.

Author Howard Jacobson was today picked out as an early favourite to win this year’s Booker Prize.