The writer on Bob Kelly in Tintown, actor Amybeth McNulty and Eily O’Connell’s jewellery

Casey Cep’s book on author’s true crime project is bogged down by fact-checked stasis

A sneak preview of this Saturday’s books pages

‘Milkman’ author has been praised for her ‘dazzingly inventive’ writing approach

First Irish writer to win prestigious £50,000 award since Anne Enright in 2007

Attempt to find Northwest Passage setting for Ed O’Loughlin’s new book Minds of Winter

The professions of writer and lawyer share lots of similarities so it is perhaps no surprise that so many Irish lawyers venture into fiction. Sarah Gilmartin hears the evidence

Authors are using new ways of writing to reflect a changed political environment

A decade after writing The Blue Tango about a real-life murder, the author revisited another crime scene in Orchid Blue. Martin Doyle interviews a true great of true crime

The Patricia Curran case has all the attributes of classic noir, says Eoin McNamee. It is easy to imagine the whole affair transposed from Belfast to 1950s Los Angeles, Black Dahlia territory

Paul Muldoon wins €5,000 Pigott Poetry Prize for One Thousand Things Worth Knowing at ceremony to mark opening of Listowel Writers’ Week

Win one of 12 signed copies of what author David Peace called ‘a genuine, original masterpiece’

‘Frank’ with Michael Fassbender and ‘Patrick’s Day’ with Moe Dunford top nominations

Eoin McNamee’s ‘blue’ novels explore Northern Ireland before the Troubles