Kenneth Branagh is in South Africa for the first drama in the final instalment of the TV Nordic noir series

The latest Hennessy hall-of-famer is mesmeric and convincing when writing in English and turns her simpler Irish to great use in her crime writing

Swedish writer captured a sense of melancholic struggle that echoed around the world

Julia Ormonde, a city girl who moved to Kerry, helped secure Dark-Sky Reserve status for her adopted home

‘The Tunnel’, a remake of Danish-Swedish murder drama ‘The Bridge’, begins with a dead body being found half in England, half in France

Henning Mankell created one of fiction’s chilliest detectives in Wallander, but he has a warm world view thanks to living in both Europe and Africa