Writer Blake Morrison, best known for the award-winning memoir, And When Did You Last See Your Father — it was adapted into a film starring Jim Broadbent and Colin Firth — will read at the West Cork Literary Festival, which begins on Sunday.

I might as well admit it early doors and put it up on the table.

Playwright and novelist Thomas Kilroy today received a prestigious award to celebrate a lifetime of literary achievement.

Indian novelist R K Narayan died in hospital today after suffering heart trouble and breathing problems, a close family friend said. He was 94.