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A programme of readings, a feature of the West Cork Literary Festival since it began in the mid-90s, is to be dedicated to the memory of former Irish Examiner columnist Denise Hall.

Writing is a way of understanding life and a way of having space to think.

I absolutely believe that books will set you free.

Writer Ruth Padel, who opens West Cork Literary Festival this summer, is a direct descendent of Charles Darwin and is greatly inspired by science, she tells Carl Dixon