Our first relationships often fall prey to naivety and end in tears. For Valentine’s Day, Sue Leonard asks five writers to reflect on their own teen experiences.

Sheila O’Flanagan tells Declan Burke the term ‘chick lit’ became a derogatory statement used by people who hadn’t even read the books

Drugs can cure male impotence but can they fix a lack of desire, asks Rita de Brun.

TEN years ago, three times more women attended Dublin Well Woman to talk about menopause than do today.

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Maeve Binchy was a genius.

Author Maeve Binchy will be remembered for her humanity and great sense of humour, says Declan Burke

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As a raunchy trilogy climbs the US bestseller lists, Declan Burke asks Irish writers if they’ll be spicing up their output

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There was never a time when I wasn’t writing something.

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POET Seamus Heaney has won a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to Irish literature.

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BOOKER Prize winner John Banville was further honoured last night when he scooped the top award at Writers’ Week, in Listowel, Co Kerry.

THE outcome of a public vote for the best Irish book of the last decade may not be revealed until next week, but sales through one website alone would make John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas a hands down winner.

MORE than 3,500 writers, musicians and artists have been granted 100% tax exemption in the last seven years, it emerged yesterday ahead of the findings of a review being carried out by the Department of Finance.

WINGS Over Delft, the story of a young girl in 17th century Holland who agrees to have her portrait painted and develops a relationship with the painter, won the 2004 Bisto Book of the Year Award yesterday.