New novels from Milan Kundera, Paul Murray and Nuala Ní Chonchúir are among the season's highlights

Review: A bland Scandinavian debut novel about a failing marriage – and a hamster – demonstrates just how difficult it can be for writers to make the ordinary compelling

Joël Dicker’s bestseller is thriller escapism writ large, irrepressibly exuberant storytelling that tramples realism underfoot as it rattles along at a thunderous pace

In broader European and American literature, it is easier to find genuine marriages of philosophy and fiction

With the Ballymaloe Literary Festival taking place this weekend, here are 20 literary quotations to whet the appetite

If WB Yeats really could be “all over” YouTube and Twitter, he’d suffer many writers’ greatest problem

The path of the novelist can be a treacherous one, as novelist Ben Marcus has learned – and taught

The Cúirt festival brings a heavyweight literary line-up to Galway this week – here are 10 highlights