CARCANET Celebrate 50 years

Originally a literary magazine founded in 1962, Carcanet Press was founded as a publishing house in 1969 and in...

Gill Books announce their 2019 autumn/winter titles

Gill Books have announced their autumn/winter 2019 list and it includes some stunning books which, we suspect, you are going to hear...

Novel Fair 2020 @ IWC

What do novelists Niamh Boyce, Kevin Curran, Alice Lyons, Janet E. Cameron all have in common? The answer, possibly one of many...

Toni Morrison: 1931-2019

In an age when our champions in every field of endeavour seem to get steadily younger, and to take dizzying success in...

Research and the Historical Novel

Pam Lecky on the challenges and virtues of writing historical fiction For anyone contemplating writing a...

‘A savage and remote country’

David Ryan reveals the remarkable story of Thomas ‘Buck’ Whaley’s adventures in Ottoman Turkey in 1788

Mary Watson—Hidden Stories in us All

Mary Watson moved to Ireland from South Africa and literally wrote herself into this country

Royal Irish Academy | Podcast

The Royal Irish Academy podcast, featuring the best of current debate and research on issues of...

Tramp Press announce their new books for 2020

Tramp Press have announced their publishing programme for 2020. In a press release today, the press, now in its 7th year, have...
A Hedgehog

Mrs Tiggy Winkle and the Hot Priest

A new audiobook collection of the complete tales of Beatrix Potter is to be released this coming August on Audible, to be...