William Golding

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Fatheads on the internet are already beginning to grumble about the imminent Oceans 8
After Ocean’s 8, give Reservoir Dogs an all-female makeover

Let’s remake every film with an all-female cast. No, hear me out. There are obviously some downsides to this plan. For starters, we have enough remake(...)

The team sent to Scotland in Eden
Eden review: Will 23 people create a utopian nirvana or a man-made disaster?

Imagine if we could just start again? That’s the big question posed by new back-to-basics reality show Eden (Mondays 9pm, Channel 4). The series aim(...)

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Great Gatsby film. F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel is an option on the 2017 single text list for Leaving Cert
The cobwebs are blown off the English curriculum
  • Books
  • September 2, 2015, 06:00

Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman has topped reading lists all over the world this summer. The story of the long-hidden second novel by the bestsellin(...)

Conor Brady on writing The Guarding of Ireland – the Garda Síochána and the Irish State 1960 – 2014: “A big task to research everything that happened over half a century with very few papers available”. Photograph: Cyril Byrne / THE IRISH TIMES
Conor Brady: ‘readers need never be lonely; writers need never be idle’
  • Books
  • October 2, 2014, 01:28

What was the first book to make an impression on you? Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. A disturbingly subversive book for an adolescent schoolboy(...)

Harvest time for Jim Crace as he signs off with a final novel

Despite having written several of the finest British novels of the past 20 years – including Arcadia (...)