SCOTTISH wildlife cameraman, Gordon Buchanan, 42, is from Tobermory on the Isle Of Mull. His November speaking tour of Ireland includes Theatre Royal, Waterford (18); Triskel, Cork (20); and Axis Ballymun (22).

Novelist Christine Dwyer Hickey won the top prize of €15,000 for her latest work, The Cold Eye of Heaven, at the 41st Listowel Writers’ Week, last night.

THERE was no room for Irish author Sebastian Barry on the shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize.

A Western has made its way on to the Man Booker Prize shortlist for the first time – in what judges have hailed as a “readable” shortlist.

Author Julian Barnes has been named favourite to win this year’s Man Booker Prize ahead of today’s shortlist announcement.