The writer on Gaza-themed new novel Every Exit Brings You Home, not being from anywhere in particular, and the ‘terrifying’ reality of Ice in Chicago

Books newsletter: tomorrow’s pages; Slow Horses; Paul Howard live; Jamie O’Connell memoir; Kevin Gildeas Brilliant Bookshop; Samuel Beckett’s Stirrings Still; Bobby Sands play; Elizabeth Wassell Montague; Project Children: The Legacy

Author and illustrator Cressida Cowell on the latest of her ‘fantasy’ books that pretend to be ‘history’ books

Books newsletter: tomorrow’s pages; Katriona O’Sullivan book deal; Heaney-Miłosz Residency; Celebrating Are You Somebody?; Look North campaign; Grace Wells poetry award

The 12 winning writers will pitch their unpublished debuts to publishers and agents in September

Books newsletter: the latest news and a preview of tomorrow’s pages

In Angel Down, the author adopted a single-sentence structure to reflect the uncertainty of warfare

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s books pages, including details of Irish Book Week and Kilkenny Arts Festival

Djamel White’s gangland novel All Them Dogs is up against former winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart as well as Elizabeth Strout and nine others

There were few signs of growing pains at the festival, whose move to a larger site in Co Laois comfortably accommodated 16,000

‘Writing a novel is pretty audacious to begin with. Why not lean into the audacity a little?’

Everything you need to know about the Co Laois music and arts festival this weekend

Having enjoyed a big hit with The Couple Next Door, the author has just submitted her 11th crime novel

Books newsletter: Irish Times books coverage preview; Gerard Manley Hopkins festival; Clifden Arts Festival; The EU in 12 Objects; Jacqueline Rose awarded PEN Pinter Prize

The writer on her latest novel, why the internet is her enemy, and living in the west of Ireland