Gifts that are as just satisfying as a new book... because they probably don't have room on their bookshelves for another one ...

I have in my hands a rare thing. Not an unsigned one, as the old gag goes, but even rarer: an un-pulped one. For there we’ve ...

The Drowned, John Banville, Faber, €15.99. Ever since Banville opted for a life of crime, at first using a pseudonym but we ...

Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians will be based on Rick Riordan’s second book in his series, The Sea of Monsters.

I’m hoping you have read Caoilinn Hughes. In the last six years, Orchid and the Wasp and The Wild Laughter established her as ...

At the launch of ‘A Drop in the Ocean’, Syeda Hameed described her memoir as a 'chronicle of the Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb, the ...

Sibéal Pounder, author of children’s book Sprouts, on writing for ‘the most important people in the world’, her admiration ...

A trio of compelling reads which run from the Ukraine invasion through the personal and to the curiousity of true crime ...

I made this oak’s acquaintance courtesy of “Plants for the Winter Garden” (Timber Press, 2024), by Warren Leach. The author ...

Listen to the RTÉ Short Story Competition 2024 stories nightly on Late Date from Monday 18 November (full broadcast schedule ...

We present another story from the RTÉ Short Story Competition shortlist 2024: read The Rehearsal by Alexis MacIsaac below.

In 1944, as Allied troops celebrated D-Day victory, a French family experienced a trauma that would be felt for generations: ...