Graham Greene

Chip Creek’s vibrant debut puts two innocent newly-weds in a place where anything goes

The trend of marrying new gadgets with luxury clothing may already be over

Review: The honkingly unsubtle dialogue is not worthy of Rosamund Pike’s steely focus

Storm deposited Dooagh sand back after 30 years but beach now washed away again

In a new introduction to All Quiet, historian Norman Stone argues the brutality of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel changed perceptions about the war

Since Chaucer there has been a rich tradition of writers inspired by religious buildings

Portrait-painter Anthony Palliser on his friendship with Garech Browne, halcyon days at Luggala and his famous Irish subjects

Morocco in the 1950s is a captivating setting for this uneven but admirably sinister novel

Achill Tourism hopes the restored Ashleam beach will offer similar windfall to Dooagh beach

A strong sense of place elevates this procedural above the norm

Gemma Tipton gets to grips with wonderful Vietnam

Ocean deposits thousands of tons of sand at Dooagh, recreating the strand

Most British writers today are Remainers. Which side would past literary giants take?

The US president is not slyly trying to alter our perception of reality – he’s just a fibber

MAC exhibition, a first for Ireland, is a fine collection with a focus on drawing

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the auction house . . . A first edition of Jaws and a drawing by its author are snapped up

‘First Editions’ in Dublin’s Ballsbridge is a popular destination for book lovers

A friend and fan unpicks the complicated life of one of one of America’s finest writers

Paul McGuinness has turned to TV, joining forces with John Banville and Neil Jordan to make a crime series based on the French Riviera

Daniel O’Connell plays a valuable part in the journal’s rich and enduring history

For Africa Day, Eileen Battersby selects 13 classic novels set in Africa but written by outsiders, including several Irish authors

Anthony Quinn’s Celcius Daly crime novels will change the way you look at rural Armagh

Spy thriller is a labour of loyalty to the underrated and original Johnson

If you’re here for a degree, you’re in the wrong place. College is all about having fun and learning about yourself

PD James: August 3rd, 1920 - November 27th, 2014

Oscar-winner directed ‘Gandhi’, ‘Cry Freedom’ and ‘Oh! What a Lovely War’

Paul Fidrmuc’s message on final Operation Overlord details ignored by Berlin handlers

A round-up of the best new crime thrillers, including books by Sinéad Crowley, Jakob Arjouni, Erin Kelly and Mark Billingham

With the Dublin Writers Festival kicking off this week, here are 10 great books with writers as their subject

Paperback of the Week

Thousands of survivors of torture live in Ireland. We talk to three of them, from Uganda, Zimbabwe and Northern Ireland

The latest crime fiction

A witty satire of 1920s Berlin, a city in financial and cultural upheaval, resonates in our time