The author’s debut novel draws on her personal experience of infertility and loss

We asked some writers to tell us about their debuts ahead of their publication

Lisa Coen and Sarah Davis-Goff, who set up Tramp Press four years ago, have published a string of successful titles

Gleeson reminds book lovers what they’ll be missing when she departs the airwaves

Waterford’s big weekend is jam-packed with music, books and exhibitions – and blaas

My publishers didn’t baulk at its domesticity, that it is about a middle-aged engineer, the lack of punctuation and the way the whole thing unfurls as one unbroken sentence

Fighting Words seeks volunteers, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Paula McGrath launch new novels, and celebrities and authors read at Dubray Books

An evening of readings by emerging authors in Dublin last night saw local publishers team up to have fun and create a platform

Eimear McBride, Jennifer Johnston and Kevin Barry are some of the names that have been suggested in response to the Arts Council’s call for nominees for its new three-year, €150,000 role. The judges will announce their decision in January

Eight years after she wrote ‘Flight’, Oonagh Frawley’s novel about international Ireland has found a brave new publisher