Another powerful role has Julianne Moore playing a real-life policewoman who campaigned for the rights of same-sex partners, writes Helen Barlow

MY DAUGHTER is sitting in the conservatory looking over my mother’s shoulder. My mother, who has come to visit along with my sister, sits beside my daughter on the sofa, reading.

The Great Irish Bake Off is back, and a week of coverage from Chelsea will have gardeners drooling

GIG WISE: Is Ed Sheeran the next Garth Brooks? After already selling out three dates at the O2, the Suffolk singer-songwriter has announced yet another concert, on Friday, October 3.

An economist, Diarmuid has always had literary leanings.

A Tap on the Window

THERE might not be a funnier act in Ireland this year than Reginald D Hunter, who is performing in 14 venues over the next three weeks, with a later date at the end of May, at Vicar Street.

Ah, the late, late rethink. Bane of the columnist’s life. Last week yours truly had a tasty segment of his column nicely tucked away, simmering like a stew just beginning to brown as the flavours seep through.

Zoo Time

US author Ray Bradbury has died at the age of 91, after a career of writing everything from science fiction and mystery to humour.

A good friend lives on Dean Street and has watched with dread as this stadium has gradually risen almost literally on her doorstep.

Richard Fitzpatrick talks to Kevin Barry about his new book, Dark Lies the Island which is just about to be published . . . and UFOs over Lough Arrow

They say Jane Maas is like Peggy Olson, the secretary-turned-copywriter from the television series Mad Men.

ANYONE who reads The Guardian will be familiar with John Crace’s ‘Digested Reads’, where the journalist takes a well-known book and compresses it down to six or seven hundred words, a process that tends to isolate the good — and bad — aspects of the tome in question (try his filleting of Philip Roth’s ‘Exit Ghost’ for a taster).

“My earliest memory was of my mother reading Roald Dahl to us in bed. I later read a lot of Enid Blighton. I took a break from reading in my teens, but rediscovered it in my late twenties.

PHILIP ROTH, America’s most decorated living novelist, yesterday won the fourth Man Booker International Prize, but the award sank into controversy as one of the judges resigned in protest.

Philip Roth has won the Man Booker International Prize recognising a novelist’s body of work.

JP O’Malley speaks to one of the most prolific writers of the last 50 years about her latest work, an honest account of becoming a widow ... and marrying again.

LAST night some of you may have caught ‘Red Riding’ on Channel 4, a new drama based on the novels of David Peace.

IRELAND’S John Banville has been pitched against literary heavyweights Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and 13 other writers from around the world in the shortlist for the Man Booker International Prize.

This year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for literature will not be announced until October 12 at the earliest, Swedish Academy officials said today.

A Finn who helped mediate peace in Indonesia is tipped to win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, while bookmakers favour a Turkish novelist for the literature award.

Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, a master of comic melancholy who in Herzog, Humboldt’s Gift and other novels both championed and mourned the soul’s fate in the modern world, has died at 89.

The 18 contenders for the inaugural Man Booker International Prize were announced today.

Bob Dylan, the unofficial poet laureate of the rock ’n’ roll generation, has now been officially placed alongside such literary greats as Philip Roth and Adrienne Rich, not to mention biographies of Shakespeare and Willem de Kooning.

It's hard to believe, in this screen adaptation of the Philip Roth novel, that so many otherwise excellent actors could be so miscast and out of their depth.

George Plimpton, the self-deprecating American author of Paper Lion and a patron to Philip Roth, Jack Kerouac and countless other writers, has died, aged 76.

More than 120 books have been nominated for the IR£79,000 annual IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award.