Unique novel of big ideas considers advances in technology and where they might take us

Kjersti A Skomsvold’s compelling account of an artist’s journey to motherhood

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Leaving Cert English paper one and home economics

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Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list

Chris O’Dowd stars in ‘Get Shorty’, Dara O Briain returns in ‘Mock the Week’

The power of books written by women about women can never be underestimated

Paula Cocozza’s beguiling first novel charts the love affair between a lonely woman and a flirtatiously fantastic fox

The women of Greek myth are rescued from passivity and victimhood in Joanna Crawley’s contemporary piece of dance-theatre

Author wrote more than 60 best-selling novels including the Inspector Wexford series

The Hennessy Hall of Fame poet looks back on her childhood and the path that led her to ‘stand up for the word’

Stephen King was the first writer to embrace the medium