Donal O’Keeffe tells the story of the mobile library service which brings a sense of community and joy to people of all ages.

Pearson is set to raise $1bn (€877m) from the sale of a 22% stake in Penguin Random House to majority owner Bertelsmann, in the British group’s latest bid to rebuild following a string of profit warnings.

KEVIN PEARCE thought he had escaped the district of his Boston upbringing and a deadly secret forever. 

This new enthusiasm by the gardai seemed like a great idea... at first.

The home of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews in Scotland is used to seeing history being made and, for a while, it looked like yesterday would be no exception.

In the real world Steve Cavanagh is a Belfast lawyer who explained to Declan Burke how an exceptional advocate can convince a jury black is actually white.

AS a lawyer, Steve has conducted several high profile cases. In 2010, representing a factory worker, he won the largest award for damages in race discrimination in Northern Ireland’s legal history.

John Grisham

Top-selling novelist John Grisham says people who look at child pornography “probably had too much to drink” and should be given lighter prison sentences.

Sharon Ní Bheoláin did it and it made the Nine O’Clock News.

The Accident

A mix of the old and the new are among the books, plays, and films that young teens can study for the first Junior Cycle Student Award in 2017.

MUCH sport is to be had watching a celebrity unravel — until it is obvious they are headed for a sticky end. While Justin Bieber is no Amy Winehouse, he is a young man in trouble.

That sucks: Cockroach lodges in man’s ear

This week's reviews in brief

Irish readers had legal matters on their minds last year with John Grisham’s The Litigators the most borrowed book from public libraries in 2012.

MASS MARKETFICTION

BEST-SELLING crime author John Grisham told lawmakers that faulty science is all over the US justice system, and urged nationwide improvements to forensic techniques.

MASS MARKETFICTION

Landfall

CHARITY givers donated more Dan Brown books to Oxfam than any other author but he was only number 10 on the list for most books sold, the charity’s annual survey revealed yesterday.

COMMUNITY drug workers have welcomed the international operation against the Christy Kinahan drugs syndicate.

Shia LaBeouf is heading to law school - he's to star in a big-screen adaptation of renowned crime author John Grisham's book 'The Associate'.

JK Rowling is the world’s best paid author, banking more than £170m (€217.4m) in the last year, US business magazine Forbes said today.

POPULAR Irish and international authors such as Marian Keyes, John Grisham, Maeve Binchy, Roddy Doyle and Cecilia Ahern are set for an income boost following a recent ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

George Clooney has purchased the rights to The Innocent Man, the first non-fiction book by best-selling author John Grisham.

Horror impresario Stephen King is offering one lucky bidder the chance to have a character named after them in his next spine-chilling book - but he warns that the story will be particularly gruesome.

Police raided a printing house in New Delhi and seized 8,000 illegal copies of the latest Harry Potter best-seller, officials said today.

JOHN Grisham’s next legal thriller will have a new twist: It will all be true.

John Grisham’s next legal thriller will have a new twist: It will all be true.

OK, so it's the season of goodwill, jingle bells, chestnuts roasting; but it's also the cynical season for unloading naff films on us.

CIAN O’CONNOR may be allowed to keep his Olympic Gold medal after a portion of the ‘B’ sample from his horse Waterford Crystal was stolen from a British laboratory.

COMPUTER giant Apple launched the long-awaited version of its iTunes online music store in Britain, France and Germany yesterday, allowing users to download a song for just €0.99.

Computer giant Apple launched the long-awaited UK version of its iTunes on-line music store today, allowing users to download a song for just 79p (€1.18).

Producers at Revolution Studios are frantically trying to come up with new titles for their movie adaptation of John Grisham’s novel Skipping Christmas, as they’ve been told they can’t use the name.

AUDIENCES come as varied as performers and the Cork Jazz Festival is no exception. While some of the crowds were getting mellow on melodies, others were being challenged, if not downright confused, by sounds not so easy to hum along with.

Best-selling author John Grisham took his mother on to the set of A Painted House, the film based on his childhood memories of life on an Arkansas cotton farm, to see how filmmakers had recreated her parents’ house.

“I HAVE a phone in one hand and a baby in the other. Ring me back in three minutes.” Such is the hectic lifestyle of Ireland’s latest celebrity writer, Liz Allen.

John Cusack is in talks to star in a new film based on a John Grisham book.