Martin Doyle

John Lanchester: ‘My mother was a born storyteller. It is often a form of misdirection’ Like much of his oeuvre, Look What You Made Me Do is mordantly funny. But, as the writer himself says, things can be funny and serious at the same time

John Lanchester: ‘My mother was a born storyteller. It is often a form of misdirection’. Like much of his oeuvre, Look What You Made Me Do is mordantly funny. But, as the writer himself says, things can be funny and serious at the same time

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Patricia Forde: ‘People often ask me when I’ll write a proper book’ Ireland’s Laureate na nÓg reflects on her tenure and the mistaken notion that children’s books are merely a stepping stone

Patricia Forde: ‘People often ask me when I’ll write a proper book’ . Ireland’s Laureate na nÓg reflects on her tenure and the mistaken notion that children’s books are merely a stepping stone

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"A lifelong smoker, who towards the end cut down to “only thirty a day or so,” she lived in a terrace in Camden, clotted with bizarre bric-a-brac including a buffalo’s head in the hallway and a lifesize dummy of Neville Chamberlain (which started out as Adolf Hitler, but was later repurposed)."

Author Henrietta McKervey: ‘I do like a good murder’ Author’s new novel, The Woman in the Water, is inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca

My Q&A with Henrietta McKervey: ‘I do like a good murder’ -
Author’s new novel, The Woman in the Water, is inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca

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A Holocaust survivor’s essential book for anyone concerned with law or human rights Theodor Meron’s A Thousand Miracles: From Surviving the Holocaust to Judging Genocide

Theodor Meron’s A Thousand Miracles: From Surviving the Holocaust to Judging Genocide - a Holocaust survivor’s essential book for anyone concerned with law or human rights

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Beryl Bainbridge drew on her own life for her funny, dark novels Two of the British writer’s best works, The Bottle Factory Outing and An Awfully Big Adventure, are republished this month

Beryl Bainbridge drew on her own life for her funny, dark novels. As two of the British writer’s best works, The Bottle Factory Outing and An Awfully Big Adventure, are republished this month, John Self reassesses her writing

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Wise words, including from authors such as Lisa McInerney: “I’d tell young Lisa she was right for doubting the flaky bestie, all those unctuous media producers, and the wannabe creatives who wouldn’t work to warm themselves”

Gethan Dick wins Kate O’Brien Award Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and a preview of tomorrow’s pages

Gethan Dick wins Kate O’Brien Award. Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and a preview of tomorrow’s pages. Book deals for Annie Macmanus, Hilary White and Conor Griffin. Belfast and Granard book festival news etc

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Rousseau’s Lost Children by Gavin McCrea: Devastating intimacies exposed Dublin-born writer returns with a novel pairing philosopher’s teachings with intimate, often devastating, story of a teacher and student

Nathan Smith on Rousseau’s Lost Children by Gavin McCrea: Devastating intimacies exposed. Dublin-born writer returns with a novel pairing the philosopher’s teachings with the intimate, often devastating, story of a teacher and student

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What Dev did next: The lasting legacy of Ireland’s actions at the end of the second World War While Éamon de Valera emerged from his good war thanks to his political manoeuvring, he did make one ‘unforced error’

What Dev did next: The lasting legacy of Ireland’s actions at the end of l World War 2. While Éamon de Valera emerged from his good war thanks to his political manoeuvring, he did make one ‘unforced error’, says Michael Russell, author of The City in Year Zero

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Galway launch of A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 with Sarah Kenny of @kennysbookshop.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social

Two Irish authors on Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist Kit de Waal and Wendy Erskine nominated for award worth £30,000

Congrats to Wendy and Kit! @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @kitdewaal.com www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Gut-wrenching account of the Troubles I have met numerous people who romanticized and glorified the violence that occurred during the Northern Irish Troubles that claimed more than 3,60...

Dirty Linen is now available to buy in the US. Here is a review by Geoffrey Cobb in the New York-based Irish Echo.

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Here’s what you’ll be reading in 2026, according to Irish booksellers With new titles due from the likes of Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Colm Tóibín and Donal Ryan, booksellers expect 2026 to be a ‘bumper year’

Here’s what you’ll be reading in 2026, according to Irish booksellers

With new titles due from the likes of Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Colm Tóibín and Donal Ryan, booksellers expect 2026 to be a ‘bumper year’

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‘I did imagine an older Prince Charming coming into my life’: Gavin McCrea on walking in Paris with Rousseau What began as an academic text on the Enlightenment-era philosopher morphed into an epistolary novel that playfully mirrors 21st-century communication

‘I did imagine an older Prince Charming coming into my life’: Gavin McCrea tells Naoise Dolan about walking in Paris with Rousseau. What began as an academic text on the philosopher morphed into an epistolary novel that playfully mirrors 21st-century communication

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Irish myths for modern women: ‘I grew up thinking my name brings sorrow to all men’ Banshee is a new collection of stories by contemporary women authors that retell Ireland’s myths and legends through a feminist lens

Ailbhe Malone on Irish myths for modern women: ‘I grew up thinking my name brings sorrow to all men’. Banshee is a new collection of stories by contemporary women authors that retell Ireland’s myths and legends through a feminist lens

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John Banville’s Christine Falls chosen as One Dublin One Book 2026 Dublin City Council is encouraging people to read Christine Falls in April and attend events connected with the novel

John Banville’s Christine Falls chosen as One Dublin One Book 2026. Dublin City Council is encouraging people to read Christine Falls in April and attend events connected with the novel

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Femina Culpa celebrates ordinary women in history accused of terrible deeds Four Northern poets have been inspired by the real cases of 19th-century women caught up in the criminal justice system

Femina Culpa celebrates ordinary women in history accused of terrible deeds. Four Irish poets have been inspired by the real cases of 19th-century women caught up in the criminal justice system

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Field Notes from an Extinction by Eoghan Walls: Compelling story of survival and apocalypse Both humans and birds are the victims of systems and philosophies run amok in this novel about an English scientist studying the last of a dying species

Neil Hegarty on Field Notes from an Extinction by Eoghan Walls: Compelling story of survival and apocalypse. Both humans and birds are the victims of systems and philosophies run amok in this novel about an English scientist studying the last of a dying species

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A Beautiful Loan by Mary Costello — self-discovery steeped in literature Seeking clarity on past loves through faith and art, an Irish teacher finds unexpected resolution in Albert Camus

"A summary is limiting: it is as accurate but inadequate to say this is the story of a woman’s decades as it is to say that Mrs Dalloway is a book about a day in the life of a Londoner."

Me on Mary Costello's exceptionally good new novel A Beautiful Loan, which is "a big book in a small package".

Big book deals for three Irish writers Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and a preview of tomorrow’s pages

Big book deals for Irish writers Sarah Maria Griffin, Nicole Flattery & Helen Cullen; Liadan Ní Chuinn on Young Writer of the Year shortlist; Magheramorne Literary Festival line-up; a preview of tomorrow’s pages; Listowel Writers’ Week preview
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White River Crossing by Ian McGuire: Another triumph of historical fiction The author of The North Water returns to the Arctic for this brutal, beautiful, luminously lyrical novel

White River Crossing by Ian McGuire: Another triumph of historical fiction. The author of The North Water returns to the Arctic for this brutal, beautiful, luminously lyrical novel

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Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

Timetable of events of the Limerick Literary Festival in Honour of Kate O’Brien on 26th February- 1st March 2026.
More info and tickets: www.limerickliteraryfestival.com

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Jen Bray: ‘When I was getting so anxious about book publicity, I had to examine why’ The journalist and debut novelist on a life-altering attack, forging a career in writing and learning to take risks

Jen Bray: ‘When I was getting so anxious about book publicity, I had to examine why’.
The journalist and debut novelist on a life-altering attack, forging a career in writing and learning

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Charleen Hurtubise: ‘People fall into relationship patterns that feel familiar rather than good’ The US-born author on how Ireland has shaped her language around parenthood, the antidote to ‘the cruelty and chaos of Ice’ and her opposition to ‘the obscene accumulation of wealth’

Charleen Hurtubise: ‘People fall into relationship patterns that feel familiar rather than good’. The author on how Ireland has shaped her language around parenthood, the antidote to ‘the cruelty and chaos of Ice’ and opposing ‘the obscene accumulation of wealth’

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rare positive journalism news story

Thanks Hilary!