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Anna Burns, winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her novel Milkman. Photograph: EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga
Anna Burns: from rank outsider to No 1 bestseller

A sneak preview of tomorrow’s books pages

Nick Laird. Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images
Two Irish poets shortlisted for £25,000 TS Eliot Prize

Ailbhe Darcy and Nick Laird on 10-strong list picked by Sinéad Morrissey-led panel

Anna Burns holds her book ‘Milkman’ during a photocall at the Royal Festival Hall in London for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images
Anna Burns: From relative unknown to Man Booker prize winner

‘Milkman’ author has been praised for her ‘dazzingly inventive’ writing approach

Anna Burns, whose winning novel is set at the height of the Troubles. Photograph: Eleni Stefano
Man Booker Prize: Belfast writer Anna Burns wins for ‘Milkman’

First Irish writer to win prestigious £50,000 award since Anne Enright in 2007

The Man Booker Prize 2018 shortlist. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Wire
Man Booker prize 2018: ‘Milkman’ by Anna Burns is top seller on shortlist

Richard Powers is favourite to win elite prize tonight but Belfast’s Anna Burns is top seller

John Boyne and Markus Zusack in Sydney
A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

‘The Book Thief’ author Markus Zusak talks to John Boyne about his new novel

John Boyne in his Rathfarnham home. Photograph: Alan Betson
John Boyne wins Goldsboro Books prize for ‘The Heart’s Invisible Furies’

£2,000 prize for ‘compelling storytelling with brilliant characterisation and a distinct voice’

The dusters to dustjackets transformation of part-time Trinity College Dublin cleaner Caitriona Lally to winner of this year’s €10,000 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for emerging Irish writers became one of this week’s most popular stories. Photograph: Alan Betson
Caitriona Lally cleans up at this year’s Rooney Prize ceremony

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Caitriona Lally, winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2018 for emerging Irish writers at Trinity College Dublin today. Photograph: Paul Sharp / SHARPPIX
Caitriona Lally wins major literary prize in Trinity (where she works as a cleaner)

Author awarded €10,000 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2018 for debut novel ‘Eggshells’

Clockwise from top left: Mike McCormack, Sara Baume, Colin Barrett, Paul McVeigh, Lisa McInerney, Conor O’Callaghan, Alan McMonagle, Sally Rooney. Photographs: John Minihan
Carrying the song and story of Irish writing all over the world

Literature Ireland’s First Lines portraits, by John Minihan, celebrate the latest wave of Irish authors

Man Booker shortlist brings mixed fortunes for Irish authors

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Anna Burns, author of Milkman. Photograph: Eleni Stefanou Anna Burns, author of Milkman. Photograph: Eleni Stefanou
Man Booker Prize: Anna Burns shortlisted for ‘Milkman’

Fellow longlisted Irish authors Sally Rooney and Donal Ryan fail to make the cut

Sally Rooney, author of Normal People. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Sales and acclaim make Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’ Man Booker Prize favourite

Three Irish writers hope to make tomorrow’s shortlist for prestigious £50,000 award

Anna Burns, perhaps the least well-known of the three Irish authors on the longlist, despite her debut, No Bones, being shortlisted for the Orange Prize back in 2002
A look ahead to next week’s Man Booker shortlist

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Caoilinn Hughes: debut novel Orchid & the Wasp, has been well received
Debut author wins Moth Short Story Prize

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Wendy Erksine: explores the meanings of home in her debut short story collection Sweet Home, out soon from Stinging Fly Press. PHOTOGRAPH: KHARA PRINGLE
Nuala O’Connor and Wendy Erskine on their new books, and the centenary of a classic

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Sally Rooney: “I’m looking forward to the challenge of working in a new form, and of thinking about these characters and their lives in new ways.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Sally Rooney and Cecelia Ahern set for TV stardom

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

If you buy The Irish Times on Saturday in Eason’s, you can purchase The Choice by Edith Eger for €4.99, a saving of €6
Edith Eger book offer with The Irish Times this Saturday

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

A worker on a skyscraper in Xiamen, China: the “Capability Triad” is a sweet spot of economic progress where skill development, the improved production of goods and organisational change overlap. Photograph: Reuters
How Growth Really Happens: Reflecting on the making of economic miracles
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Insightful and expansive study of economic growth is a little heavy on academic language

The judges for the 2018 Man Booker Prize (from left) Val McDermid, Leanne Shapton, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Leo Robson and Jacqueline Rose. Photograph: Man Booker Prize/PA
Three Irish longlisted for Man Booker Prize

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Avedis Hadjian seeks out people in the villages and towns of Western Armenia, chatting to anyone who will talk to him.
Secret Nation review: insight into the invisible Armenians in Turkey

Avedis Hadjian presents a genocide-scarred culture where Armenians deny their identity

Photograph: iStock/Getty
Books for the beach – and the brain – this summer

John Banville, Kathleen MacMahon, John Boyne, Joseph O’Connor and more on what they’ll be reading

Irish Times Africa Day writing competition winners Oluwasegun Seriki and Lara El-Kadi receive their prizes at The Irish Times today. Photograph: Lorraine O’Sullivan
Irish Times Africa Day writing competition winning entries

Read the work of winners Lara El-Kadi, Natasha Sutton and Oluwasegun Seriki

A mural in Derry of Annette McGavigan, who was killed age 14 in 1971. Photograph: courtesy of McGavigan family
Children of the Rising author Joe Duffy to co-author book on Troubles’ child victims

Duffy and co-writer Freya McClements appeal for families’ help to make book complete

Hubert Butler in 1987: “This new essay prize is founded to recognize Butler’s achievement in intellectual history, and to encourage the kind of economical but substantial essay-writing which he perfected.” Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
Hubert Butler Essay Prize launched

Prize commemorates great Irish writer and humanitarian and promotes essay-writing

Desmond Elliott Prize winner Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young. Photograph: Louise Haywood-Schiefer/ Desmond Elliott Prize/PA
Preti Taneja wins Desmond Elliott Prize

A sneak preview of Saturday's books pages

Mike McCormack with the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award. Photograph: Chris Bellew / Fennell Photography
Mike McCormack wins International Dublin Literary Award

Valerie O’Riordan, Chris Connolly and Anne Patterson on Society of Authors award shortlists

Kamila Shamsie, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Photograph: Getty Images
Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire wins Women’s Prize for Fiction

What’s coming up in Saturday’s books pages

Paul Lynch. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Paul Lynch’s ‘Grace’ wins Irish Novel of the Year Award

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Paul Lynch: Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award winner. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
‘Grace’ by Paul Lynch wins Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award

Colette Bryce’s ‘Selected Poems’ wins Pigott Poetry Prize at Listowel Writers’ Week

Olga Tokarczuk: trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw, and her interest in Jung continues to influence her work. Photograph: Jacek Kolodziejski
Man Booker International Prize 2018: Olga Tokarczuk wins £50,000 award

Author of the ‘beguilingly experimental’ Flights becomes first Pole to take prize

President Michael D Higgins presents Sarah Crossan with her laureate’s medal as shje became the fifth Laureate na nÓg today. Photograph: Maxwells
Sarah Crossan is appointed Laureate na nÓg

Lisa McInerney with her 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Photograph: Ian West/PA
Lisa McInerney is jointly awarded £10,000 Encore Award

Mark O’Connell
Mark O’Connell wins £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize

Sinéad Gleeson on The Long Gaze Back: The Irish Times Book Club podcast

Our conversation ranged over literary archaeology to her championing of new voices and the cultural and social context surrounding(...)

Women’s Prize shortlist and Trinity’s translators

What’s coming up in Saturday’s books pages

German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig’s debut novel explores a Europe in a state of flux.
One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century review – highly original, hypnotic work

Readers seeking striking European voices should embrace this novel

Fergal Keane: 'A legendary journalist who is also a first-rate historian and a marvellous writer.'
Fergal Keane wins Christopher Ewart-Biggs memorial prize for ‘Wounds’

Marianne Elliott awarded special £5,000 prize for advancing understanding of Irish history in Britain

Edna O’Brien at her home in London in 2006: “Writing isn’t elitist: it’s the deepest thing we have. It’s as essential as breathing.” Photograph: Frank Miller
Arise Dame Edna: Irish author Edna O’Brien is made a DBE

Author, 88, from Co Clare has enjoyed a long and distinguished career since making her name with The Country Girls in 1962

The winner will be announced at the opening ceremony of Listowel Writers’ Week on May 30th.
Bernard MacLaverty and Sally Rooney on shortlist for Irish Novel of the Year

'Midwinter Break' and 'Conversations With Friends' are two of five books on Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award shortlist

Manus Boyle Tobin: “This story was inspired by glimpses and snapshots of Dublin and its people. By the housing crisis, homelessness and isolation.”
Manus Boyle Tobin is named Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year

Aaron Finnegan and Louise G Cole win awards and Bernard MacLaverty inducted into Hall of Fame

Mark O’Connell's debut book 'manages to be simultaneously hilarious, touching and utterly humane'. Photograph: Rich Gilligan
Mark O’Connell on £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize shortlist

Rivals include Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing and Nigerian novelist Ayobami Adebayo

Matt Killeen’s “Orphan Monster Spy” (Usborne, £7.99) takes us back in time to the outbreak of the second World War
YA fiction reviews: from suffragettes to spies

New releases make the most of International Women’s Day with plenty of female stories

This is Ireland: 12 books that capture the Ireland of now
Want to know about Ireland now? Here are the books to read

A Minister, a historian and 13 Irish writers select the modern works - from Ross O'Carroll-Kelly to Donal Ryan - that capture for (...)

Frank Wynne: jointly won the IMPAC/Dublin Literary Festival Prize in 2002 for Atomised (The Elementary Particles) by Michel Houellebecq
Man Booker International: Irish translator has two books on list

Frank Wynne’s translations of Javier Cercas’s The Impostor and Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex 1 up for £50,000 prize

‘Val Mulkerns wrote like a fighter’: Irish authors pay tribute

Sebastian Barry, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, Joseph O’Connor, Mary O’Donnell, Carlo Gébler, Helena Mulkerns, Ita Daly and Dermot Bo(...)

John Connell: The Cow Book tells the story of his relationship with his home-place, livestock, and father
The Cow Book: A farmer’s son uneasy return to Longford
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  • March 10, 2018, 06:00

Review: Returned emigrant John Connell’s vivid account of a year on the family farm

Emma Hannigan at home in Bray, Co Wicklow in 2010. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
‘She just can’t be gone.’ Tributes to ‘warrior’ Emma Hannigan

‘Emma was the epitome of strength, love and generosity, beyond anything I have known’

Raymond Briggs’s The Snowman, not to be confused with Jo Nesbo’s one
Chilling thrillers and stone cold classics to read on World Book Day

As Storm Emma has us all under curfew, we list some great books to read by the fire

Edna O’Brien: recognised for “the absolute perfection of her prose” which broke down “social and sexual barriers for women in Ireland and beyond”. Photograph: Alan Betson
Edna O’Brien: Lolita author Nabokov was ‘scathing of women’

‘Country Girls’ author on ‘our unhinged times’ as she receives $50,000 Pen award

The Kiss by Auguste Rodin. Photograph: Christophel Fine Art/UIG via Getty Images
Love poems: ‘For one night only naked in your arms’ - 14 poets pick their favourites

'It was Yeats’s lessons in lovesex that hit home': poets on their favourite love poems for St Valentine’s Day

Longlisted: Bernard MacLaverty, Maggie O’Farrell and Mark O’Connell
Three Irish writers on £30,000 Wellcome Prize longlist

Bernard MacLaverty, Maggie O’Farrell and Mark O’Connell on 12-strong longlist for prize celebrating books about health and medicin(...)

Philip Casey listening to readings of his poetry at the launch of his Selected Poems at the Mansion House, Dublin, in August 2015. Photograph: Sara Freund
Tributes pour in for much-loved writer Philip Casey (67)
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  • February 5, 2018, 12:46

Author of acclaimed Bann trilogy and four poetry collections was at the heart of Irish literary world

Frank Fenn with the six millionth box of Baileys Irish Cream. Photograph: Alan Betson
Baileys origin story is cream of Irish Times Books in 2017

A look at the 10 most popular literary articles of the year

Roddy Doyle: Ticket readers have chosen his latest novel, Smile, as the best Irish novel of 2017. Photograph: Alan Betson
Something to smile about: Roddy Doyle is still our favourite Irish author

Ticket Awards 2017: ‘Smile’, Doyle’s powerful story of a middle-aged Dubliner dealing with memories of abuse, has topped our inaug(...)

Fiction, history, humour, emotion: The best books of 2017

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn stuff ... Writers name their favourite works of the year

'Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling' authors Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen have signed a six-figure, two-book deal with Gill Books to continue the story.
Oh My God! Aisling authors sign six-figure deal and film could be next

Cúirt highlights; major Seamus Heaney exhibition; book deals for Niamh Boyce and debut author from Derry

Ticket Awards 2017: The best books of the year

Here are our best reads of the last year

Ali Smith: will be in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson on March 21st, 2018
Mountains to Sea festival highlights revealed

Irish Times Poetry Now Award judges named

Jodie Foster stars in Claude Chabrol’s The Blood of Others, based on a Brian Moore screenplay
Book Quiz: Philip Roth’s middle name and Synge’s island?

10 bookish brain teasers

Bernard MacLaverty: won the coveted Novel of the Year prize for Midwinter Break, his first novel in 16 years. Photograph: Camera Press/Wattie Cheung
Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards winners revealed

Bernard MacLaverty, Marian Keyes and Atlas of the Irish Revolution get the big breaks

Bloomsday 1954: Patrick Kavanagh with writer Anthony Cronin, after their pilgrimage to Sandymount Strand, arriving at Davy Byrne’s pub, South Ann Street, Dublin. Photograph: Dermot Barry
Patrick Kavanagh remembered: O shiny great soul of Monaghan

Leading poets and writers take a fresh look at the writer on the 50th anniversary of his death

Eoin McHugh: published The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan while publisher at Transworld Ireland
Eoin McHugh to be HarperCollins’ publishing director in Ireland

Eavan Boland is to receive Bob Hughes Lifetimes Achievement Award at Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards

Costa shortlisted: Sarah Crossan, Karl Geary, Sinéad Morrissey
Three Irish writers on Costa Book Award shortlists

Karl Geary, Sarah Crossan and Sinéad Morrissey among nominations

Seamus Heaney
The Book Quiz: ‘Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man’

Seamus Heaney’s biographer, Goldsmith Prize winner, and who wrote ‘The Birds’

Nicola Barker: won the Impac Dublin Literary Award in 2000 for Wide Open
Nicola Barker wins Goldsmiths Prize with H(a)ppy

Prize dominated by Irish writers goes to English author for first time

Eithne Shortall: novelist and chief arts writer on the Ireland edition of the Sunday Times
Eithne Shortall signs six-figure US deal for second novel

Sunday Times chief arts writer’s debut also optioned for TV series by NBC Universal Studios

The late Seamus Heaney: his work “touches people so profoundly because it seems to spring from a very deep life indeed”, says newly announced biographer Fintan O’Toole. Photograph: Pat Langan
Fintan O’Toole to write Seamus Heaney’s official biography

Faber announces ‘Irish Times’ columnist to write Nobel Prize-winning poet’s authorised life

Babette’s Feast: “I spend considerably more time reading about food than I do cooking it,” admits Paula McGrath
Nom nom nom de plume: Irish writers on food

Food Month: Henrietta McKervey, Rob Doyle, Danielle McLaughlin, Ian Duhig, Paula McGrath, Jo Spain and Martina Evans share favouri(...)

You know wjhen? Bryan Murray reading Ulysses at Joyce’s Tower in Sandycove during the Bloomsday celebrations. But what date? Photograph: Cyril Byrne
The weekly book quiz

Test your knowledge of Irish and international literature

Sinéad Gleeson presents ‘The Book Show’ on RTÉ Radio and reviews for ‘The Irish Times’
Picador to publish Sinéad Gleeson’s debut essay collection

Anyone who has read her Granta essays, ‘Blue Hills and Chalk Bones’ and ‘Second Mother’, will be impatient to read more

British author Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature earlier this month, but what is the title of his latest novel? Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
The Books Quiz: Giants, priests and poets

Test your literary knowledge

Michael Fassbender as Harry Hole in the film adapation of The Snowman by Jo Nesbo, which comes where in the series?
The Book Quiz: How many outings did Harry Hole have before ‘The Snowman’?

Also: women in translation, a literary dog’s name, and where the Dickens is Diogenes?

Giovanni Adorni Braccesi, the Italian ambassador to Ireland, John Banville and his wife Janet after the awarding of the Ordine della Stella d’Italia
John Banville is knighted by Italy

Leading Irish author made Cavaliere of the Ordine della Stella d’Italia at Italian embassy ceremony

Eimear McBride. Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images
The Book Quiz: The weight of history – how many kgs exactly?

Also: a host of prizewinners and the only Irish-language No1 bestseller are among this week's gems

Macnas will parade Memory Song through Dublin’s Northside as part of the Bram Stoker Festival
Dracula gets his day in the sun

Poets shortlisted for TS Eliot and Warwick Prizes; Dublin Book Festival highlights; Something Wicked

Sarah Davis-Goff, right, with Tramp Press co-publisher Lisa Coen. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Sarah Davis-Goff and Cecelia Ahern sign major book deals

Tinder Press buys Tramp publisher’s post-apocalyptic Irish novel. TV rights already sold for Ahern’s 30 women’s stories

Kazuo Ishiguro:. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images
Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Author is best known for novel ‘The Remains of the Day’

Catherine Doyle: “Having grown up listening to my grandfather’s stories of daring sea rescues and adventures on Arranmore Island, it’s wonderful to be able to write a magical island story that has been inspired by them”
Galway writer signs six-figure deal

Ed O’Loughlin and Sara Baume shortlisted for major awards; BBC to adapt Tana French novels for Dublin Murders TV series

Adrian McKinty: “one of Britain’s great contemporary crime writers and the Sean Duffy books are his masterpiece,” according to Ian Rankin
Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty is October’s Irish Times Book Club pick

Edgar Award-winning thriller is fifth in Sean Duffy series about a Catholic RUC man

Sinéad Morrissey: “The poems in On Balance are beautifully written, emotionally charged and filled with a wonderful complexity,” said jury chairman Andrew Marr
Sinéad Morrissey wins £10,000 Forward poetry prize

Armagh poet wins Best Collection prize for ‘On Balance’. Ocean Vuong and Ian Patterson also honoured

JP Donleavy in his study packing the archive of his work in 2005. Photograph: David Sleator
What JP Donleavy did best was the desperate melancholy of men in their prime

Tributes: John Banville, Kevin Barry, Donal Ryan, Pat McCabe, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and others assess ‘The Ginger Man’ author

Man Booker 2017 shortlist: Paul Auster, Ali Smith, Mohsin Hamid, Emily Fridlund, George Saunders, Fiona Mozley
Two female debut authors shortlisted for Man Booker prize

Irish authors Mike McCormack and Sebastian Barry fail to make cut

Niall McMonagle: conferred by UCD with an honorary doctorate of literature in recognition of his outstanding work and influence in the arts and his tireless support of Irish culture
Niall MacMonagle honoured; Maeve Binchy festival; Belfast crime fiction event

Irish literary news: Culture Night; Sounds from a Safe Harbour; Dromineer Literary Festival; Patrick Kavanagh weekend; HomePlace e(...)

Inch Levels: reclaimed land on the shoreline of Lough Swilly
Inch Levels by Neil Hegarty is September’s Irish Times Book Club pick

A powerful debut novel set in the landscapes of Ireland’s northern borderlands

Author Shane Connaughton talks to Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, in Bantry Library as part of the West Cork Literary Festival in July
Irish Times Book Club podcast with Shane Connaughton

The Oscar-winning screenwriter and author discusses his career including Married Quarters, his long-awaited sequel to A Border Sta(...)

Angela Nagle: “I became obsessed with online anti-feminist forums about eight years ago. It started me thinking about the relationship between countercultures, subcultures and the mainstream”
A Q&A with ‘Kill All Normies’ author Angela Nagle

‘Literary people are much more open to complexity than political people. Political online commentary is just a cesspit for the unh(...)

“Hans Christian Andersen’s dark, original fairy tale is reimagined through a searing feminist lens, with the stunning, scalpel-sharp writing and world building that has won Louise O’Neill her legions of devoted fans.” Photograph: Anna Groniecka
Louise O’Neill takes on The Little Mermaid

Wild Words festival; John Toomey wins award; Irish Pages at Seamus Heaney HomePlace

Sebastian Barry and Mike McCormack: Man Booker 2017 longlisted
Man Booker prize 2017: Irish authors Sebastian Barry and Mike McCormack on longlist

Pair have already won awards for their listed novels, ‘Days Without End’ and ‘Solar Bones’

Shane Connaughton leans against the wall outside the Garda Barracks in Redhills.
Married Quarters by Shane Connaughton this summer’s Irish Times Book Club pick

The sequel to his acclaimed 1989 debut is set in a Garda station in Cavan in late 1950s

What are Anne Enright, John Boyne and others reading this Summer?

Some of Ireland’s best-known writers and readers share the books that will be in their suitcases

If you’re heading off the beaten track, you might welcome book recommendations from local experts
Holiday reading: Irish diplomats on what books to read where

From Bulgaria to Zambia and from China to Palestine, the books you should be reading

Jennifer Johnston talks to Eileen Battersby at the Irish Writers Centre in Dulbin this month
Book Club podcast: Jennifer Johnston talks to Eileen Battersby

Irish Times Book Club: The distinguished author discusses her life and work

Sebastian Barry at the Gutter Bookshop Dalkey after winning the Independent Bookshop Award. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Sebastian Barry wins Independent Bookshop Week Book Award

Maeve Binchy walk; TCD archives conference; Words Ireland initiatives

Irish Abroad: which books capture the spirit of where you live

Share your local knowledge with Irish visitors this summer

Sinead Morrissey: shorltisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Photograph: Eric Luke
Children’s literature conference in Dublin

The latest literary news and listings

There’s a celebration of Bloomsday co-founder, the late Anthony Cronin, on June 16th
Bloomsday Festival: What’s happening on the big week for Joyceans

To mark WB Yeats’s birthday and Bloomsday the National Library will show newly acquired letters to Yeats from James Joyce

The Power by Naomi Alderman, reviewed by Danny Wallace, is the bookies’ favourite to win the Baileys Prize tomorrow
Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction: shortlist reviews

Grace Dent, Bettany Hughes, Stephen Mangan, Anthony Horowitz, Anita Rani and Danny Wallace on tomorrow’s potential winners

“There are very few outlets for people writing for children, whether it’s poetry or short fiction”
Clucking good poem for kids wins Caterpillar Poetry Prize

‘You can sense the twinkle in the author’s eye,’ says editor of Janet Turner’s winner

Kit de Waal: Irish Novel of the Year winner. Photograph: Justine Stoddart
Kit de Waal’s ‘My Name Is Leon’ is Irish Novel of the Year 2017

Bookmarks: a round-up of the latest Irish literary news and listings

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