Donald Clarke: If authors can keep an open mind about appearances, so can readers

Best-selling author enjoys playing with old crime clichés

She balances trepidation with determination in Pablo Larraín’s spaced-out fantasia

‘I have a ritual of making tea, lighting a candle and then I am gone into my fictional world’

Dubliner Yvonne Cassidy was fit and healthy, but says coronavirus didn’t seem to care

Review: Her work is perfect for TV. This drama, though flawed, manages not to muck it up

Laois multimillionaire (92) would be ‘horrified’ at her €30m donation becoming public

Young Irish fiction writers have made strides in recent years, and 2018 promises some fine debuts. Here six authors introduce their books

Today, we announce the winner of our travel writing competition. Chosen from more than 650 entries, John Poole’s winning article is about being guided by fictional sleuths through fabulous cities

Jess Kidd’s debut novel is atmospheric but too cliched to really score as mystery or drama

With Poirot-like diligence, expert John Curran has gathered 126 facts about the Queen of Crime

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

At 81, the British artist is gaining recognition by avoiding artifice and artiness

Four-bedroomed renovated cottage is on a hillside among fields and forests and includes a detached studio in gardens