Patrick Freyne: The Luminaries looks great and has spirited acting, but what is it trying to be?

Review: Anya Taylor-Joy suffers as too-cool direction get in the way of a pretty enough diversion

Author mentioned charities that helped her in prize-winning novel’s acknowledgments

Books nominated by public libraries for consideration include 142 novels

Having given up my legal career in Dublin to pursue a master’s in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, now I am faced with the realities of my new path

Competition is fierce on the literary festival circuit and on the evidence of last weekend Cúirt needs to do more to set itself apart

Booker prize winning author among participants in week-long event

Opinion: The tapenade-eaters are always going to remain immune to the charms of ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’

What a difference a year makes: the new faces of 2013

Brian Boyd and Emma Somers root through a bumper crop of TV, film and music to find gift ideas for the loved one who thinks they’ve seen it all

‘The Luminaries’ trumps Irish writer Colm Tóibín’s ‘The Testament of Mary’, his third nomination

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A sprawling narrative from the 19th-century has taken the last Booker prize of its kind

Gambling on culture is big business – and there’s an extra incentive for manipulating the odds

Although The Voyage, by Murray Bail, failed to make even the longlist, this is an exciting selection