Liz Nugent

Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival includes Alexandra McGuinness thriller

If Irish crime fiction has a signal crime it is corruption – public and private, spiritual and secular

The late playwright’s friends, colleagues and admirers remember the man and his work

Ebook sales are down, physical-book sales are up. Has the tide turned?

To celebrate the close of the Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks series we asked you to pick your favourite artwork of last year

Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones is novel of the year. Winners include Marian Keyes, Graham Norton, Paul Howard, Paul O’Connell and Tana French

Some well-known Irish people tell us what would put a smile on their faces, and we want to hear from you too

There are myriad outlets, but how does a novice author get signed after the final draft?

The countdown is on to find Ireland’s favourite Irish poem, so we’ve asked a selection of writers and readers to tell us their favourite few lines of verse, and to nominate which poem they think is best from RTÉ’s A Poem for Ireland shortlist

12 months, 138 productions and three judges - we take you behind the scenes of the Irish Theatre Awards nominations

Twenty years ago, a former Wall Street trader sold a book over the internet. With this first sale on Amazon, Jeff Bezos changed the world

It’s hard to beat the pleasure of settling down on a sun lounger or sofa with a good book. Here are 25 of the season’s best to choose from

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

If you doubt your characters, your readers will doubt them too, so it is important to understand characters’ motivation and make their behaviour and speech convincing

Irish authors tell us how and where they find inspiration for an idea strong enough to sustain a book, and how they go about turning that into an extended narrative

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