Crime pays — at least the fictional kind — for Ireland’s best selling children’s author Eoin Colfer, as accumulated profits at his book firm topped €2.6m last year.

Emma O’Reilly’s book, The Race To Truth – Blowing The Whistle On Lance Armstrong And Cycling’s Doping Culture, has been short-listed for Sports Book of the Year in the Irish Book Awards.

Chucking in the day job and writing a novel is a dream many of us harbour but the reality can be far from glamorous, as many successful writers must still juggle their craft with a career.

THE Sound of Things Falling by Colombian author, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated from Spanish by Canadian Anne McLean, is the winner of the 2014 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award and €100,000 — but how do awards affect the winners — and the losers? Do they really matter?

From religious tomes to best-selling novels and personal faves, Mark Evans wants you to get voting.

I’ve wanted to write since I was a teenager but the older I got, the less confident I became.

The literary stars came out last night for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards in Dublin.

Icebergs, polar bears, and a stranded pedalo — it sounds more like the beginning of a Disney blockbuster than a children’s competition, but that’s where the crucial ingredient of imagination comes in.

THE first that Mairead O’Connor heard that she had won a nationwide writing competition was when her mother arrived in her school as she was doing Christmas tests.

Neil Jordan, Belinda McKeon, Alan Flynn and Sheila O'Flanagan were among the winners at this year's Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards.

POET Seamus Heaney has won a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to Irish literature.

THE outcome of a public vote for the best Irish book of the last decade may not be revealed until next week, but sales through one website alone would make John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas a hands down winner.