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Previous winners of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair offer advice on how to get your manuscript over the line

THE long awaited launch of Marianne Lee’s historical novel ‘A Quiet Tide’ has finally arrived. Join Marianne Lee at Midland Books for a celebr...

Though mostly written before the pandemic, Baumes latest novel, Seven Steeples, ended up being strangely relevant for the Covid era 

Six shortlisted for Kate O’Brien Award for a debut novel Reporter:  ); Six entires have been shortlisted for the 6th annual Kate O’Brien Award for a debut novel from an Irish female author. The Award will be presented as part of the 37th annual Limerick Literary Festival in Honour of Kate O’Brien in February 2021. It is one of Irelands most vibrant and successful festivals which has been running since 1984 and it showcases in a diverse and eclectic programme the best in Irish and intern...

  Not the least of our losses in this plague year was one of our greatest poets, Derek Mahon. Washing Up (Gallery Press) is a glorious late harvest - vigorous, funny, angry, blithe - beautifully produced, like all Gallery editions, and including, appropriately, a lovely tribute to another luminary of the dead poets society, Ciaran Carson. Mahons last is vividly alive. Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters, edited by Nienke Bakker, Leo Jansen and Hans Luijten (Thames & Hudson) is a ju...