Q&A with product/ textile designer and author Helen James.

It’s one of life’s great pleasures, listening to ideas with which you profoundly disagree, writes Terry Prone

My message has always been that it’s OK to be a home cook, says Trish Deseine.

TriPlay today launched eStories to offer audiobook fans an alternative to Amazon’s dominance with Audible.

A REALLY posh new book celebrating Irish food and cooking has just arrived on my desk. HOME: Recipes from Ireland is Trish Deseine’s new book, and it feels like a love letter to her home country.

UCC French lecturer Prof Grace Neville recounts how the sinking of the Lusitania shocked France

Another year, another sack of books.

So what were you doing when you first heard that song and saw that video asks Richard Fitzpatrick?

Amazon.com’s conflict with the publisher Hachette Book Group is over, but the restoration of normal service will take at least a few days.

Online retailer Amazon says a dispute between it and publisher Hachette that has made it more difficult to find Hachette books on the site could drag out.

On Fools’ Day, Róisín Meaney recalls her childhood dreams of fancy nuptials. But in these times of once-worn dresses, four-tier cakes and chair ribbons, she has more sense. And money...

CRIME fiction is regarded as a good vehicle for reflecting the times in which it is written.

Having an ‘online presence’, like a website, a blog, or being on Facebook or Twitter, is now a must for authors, says Sue Leonard, to keep publishers keen

Apple goes to trial today over allegations by US federal and state authorities that it conspired with publishers to raise the price of e-books.

Sue Leonard talks about men, marriage and missed chances with romance writer Roisin Meaney, who’s still hoping to meet The One

HarperCollins owner News Corporation is reportedly readying a £1bn (€1.24bn) offer for Penguin in an attempt to scupper plans for a new publishing giant.

US attorneys general in 55 areas who claim there was a conspiracy to fix electronic book prices say they have got on board with a $69m (€55m) settlement of anti-trust claims against three publishers.

Lil Wayne is offering a literary tour of his prison days.

IN 1998, I returned to Ireland after a three-year stint in Hong Kong, with a plan to drive around the four provinces in a tractor, talking with old timers about the way things were before the Celtic Tiger.

Muriel Bolger

The Troubled Man

American giant bookseller Borders filed for bankruptcy protection today.