Crosswords & Puzzles
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Lauren Bacall, star of Hollywood’s golden age, dies
Actress with throaty voice shot to fame in 1944 opposite future husband Humphrey Bogart
Tone control: ‘Give yourself permission to fail’
John Banville, Rachel Kushner and Peter Murphy share their wisdom on tone, voice and point of view
The plot thickens: no spoilers
Tightly wound or free-flowing? Well charted or twists and turns? Jojo Moyes, Sam Lipsyte, John Connolly, Lia Mills and Tana French on plotting your book
A note-perfect homage to ‘American Psycho’, and other murders
A round-up of the best new crime thrillers
John Banville: channelling Chandler
With Quirke, he pounded the pavements of 1950s Dublin. Now the novelist takes on the great LA gumshoe Philip Marlowe
Latest Rankin book inspired by guitarist Rory Gallagher
Kickback City to be published as part of compilation album of rocker’s music
Grounded in Belfast, where it all began
Sinéad Morrissey, the city’s first poet laureate, is intrinsically bound to her home place, although her background isn’t quite what you might expect
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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