Opera will be to the fore in the list of top-class entertainment by the Everyman after the Cork theatre unveiled its spring and early summer schedule.

Oscar Wilde’s greatest contribution to our culture is not his writing but the invention of celebrity. JP O’Malley is not entirely convinced.

Nora Webster

Susan Hill

Edith Wharton

GIG WISE:Christy Moore has announced a return to Leeside, playing at Cork Opera House with Declan Sinnott on Thurs, Nov 7.

Opening in Los Angeles in 2154, Elysium (15A) offers an especially dystopian vision of Earth’s future.

Paul Dunne continued his triumphant march in the Amateur Championship by reaching the third round in Kent yesterday, just 24 hours after a record-breaking performance at the qualifying stage.

New Ways to Kill Your Mother

Richard Fitzpatrick rounds up his top tomes of the year

The Golden Door: Letters to America

ALEXANDER Skarsgard is hungry for flesh.

Foreign Bodies v

IF the Almighty had sent down the injunction to be fruitful and to multiply to what is commonly called the Bible, his word could not have been more adequately fulfilled.

The Empty Family

IT was Ronald Reagan, I think, who tried to laugh off the earlier stages of his Alzheimer’s disease by saying “the great thing about this condition is that you meet new people every day”. Sounds funny, doesn’t it. But when you’re actually in a position to witness the destruction of a once fine mind, somehow the humour disappears.

HEARTBREAK is a tiresome, frustrating book. Though marketed as a novel it fails to provide anything in the way of sustained narrative and is instead little more than an exasperating miscellany of thinly-sketched characters and random, disconnected vignettes.

Zadie Smith

With respect to the Troggs, you feel it in your fingers. You feel it in your toes. Love may not be all around when Kilkenny meet Tipperary, but you should still be tingling in anticipation ahead of Sunday’s All-Ireland hurling final

Arctic Monkeys have been honoured with the Best Pop prize at the British South Bank Show Awards in London.

TWO Irish authors are on the shortlist for the biggest books prize in the world, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, it was announced yesterday.

Rap star Coolio has signed with MIG Records, the company announced today.

Irish writer Colm Toibin has won the prestigious Los Angeles Times Book Award for his novel on the life of Henry James.

HARRY McGEE's interview with Colm Tóibín (Irish Examiner, October 19) was interesting, but it was a disappointment that he didn't win the Booker Prize for literature.

AN Irish, Northern Irish and Clonakilty-based writer are among 22 authors long-listed for the prestigious Man Booker Prize.