Debut novels among five that make final cut for €15,000 award at Listowel Writers’ Week

The Sex Education actor talks about her Irish roots and her Anglo-French upbringing

A look at the brightest debuts and collections from this year's emerging authors

A sneak preview of this Saturday’s books pages

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages

Rob Doyle on k-punk, an unmissable, 800-page collection of the late thinker’s work

Self-confessed shelf addict John Boyne checks out how fellow authors like to stack

Dublin Shakespeare Society; Kevin Curran reading; All-Ireland Poetry Day; Trinity talk on Derry authors; hunger strike talk at UCD

Depictions of sex, drugs and alcohol no longer take us aback, according to the Irish author. The power of his new book, ‘This Is the Ritual’, comes from its ability to unnerve

If this standard is kept up, writes Kevin Gildea, then Winter Pages will become as essential as a warm fire on the wet miserable nights of our Irish winter lives

The Irish novel may be at a crossroads, says Bert Wright, but Irish fiction is as vibrant and multifarious now as fiction has ever been in any culture in literary history

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

Rob Doyle’s book is a rough but powerful debut, maybe the first novel since Kevin Power’s ‘Bad Day in Blackrock’ to interrogate the dark side of the young Irish male’s psyche