Diary of a Wimpy Kid and The BFG are also among the books checked out most often.

All 20 of the most borrowed books were titles aimed at children with the Harry Potter series still proving hugely popular.

Legendary musician John Sheahan leads a Late Late Show line up including champion jockey Pat Smullen and three of Ireland's leading crime fiction writers.

Five novels have been shortlisted for the 2019 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year at Listowel Writers’ Week, with a shared prize fund of €19,000, one of the biggest in Ireland.

Accumulated profits at one of the country’s best-known booksellers, Dubray Books increased to over €1.38m last year.

Publication week is always a strange time, says Louise O’Neill.

Avid reader and now brand new author Andrea Mara ponders how social media has made modern authors accessible to their fans

Seven Irish novels are in contention for the world’s largest literary prize as the nominations for the International Dublin Literary Awards are revealed.

Julie Parsons has been a trailblazer in the crime genre, and her long-awaited seventh novel is thought provoking and clever, writes Sue Leonard

Traumatised souls. Murderous housewives. Wise-cracking hitmen. Bloody revenge. It’s all there in this excellent collection of short stories from Irish crime writers.

Laura O’Mahony is from Glanmire, Co Cork, but currently lives in Ballycotton, with husband, Shane, and daughter, Polly. She is on tour with comedy group, Cccahoots. They play Whelan’s, in Dublin, tomorrow.

Family-owned bookseller Dubray Books last year posted its “best trading performance since the recession” as it recorded profits of €495,589.

Ever wanted to get inside a writer’s mind and take a look at their creative process? Well, this week Louise O’Neill shares hers.

The longlist for the International DUBLIN Literary Award has been announced with seven Irish novels among the 160 titles that have been nominated by libraries worldwide.

In her early 20s Maria was in a folk group, and she started writing lyrics, and some poetry. But it wasn’t until 2004, when she joined a creative writing group that she started taking writing seriously.

SJ Watson

There’s no short cut to writing a bestseller.

With 2.4 million followers on Twitter, 1.8 million fans on Facebook, and 3.2 million subscribers on Instagram, publishers couldn’t wait to get their hands on Zoe Suggs’ first book writes Sue Leonard

Jonathan deBurca Butler asks five culture vultures to give their recommendations for the final weeks of the summer so you don’t miss the best of what’s on offer

I’m not a risk taker. I don’t do roller-coasters. When I got a book deal I took a two year leave of absence rather than quit my job because I need the safety net.

IT STRUCK a sensitive nerve when the poet WJ Mc Cormack, aka Hugh Maxton, this week defended Aosdána’s annual funding of €2.7 million by mentioning that Fair City cost €11 million. This fact was met, according to an RTÉ report, with laughter from the floor of Aosdána’s general assembly meeting at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham.

Liz Nugent

The End is Nigh For Paperbacks. It could be the title of another novel by Irish crime writer John Connolly.

WHEN, in 2011, the RTÉ journalist Kathleen McMahon accepted a €600,000 advance for her debut novel, there was excitement throughout the organisation.