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In This Plague of Souls, a whip-tight narrative often spills into poetry without ever losing its emotional heft

The award-winning Irish author on losing his father at 18, the drawbacks of English editors and the theme of imprisonment in his work

Mike McCormack’s love letter to rural Ireland is a strange combination of crime, religion, metaphysics and Botox

A man’s past comes back to haunt him when he returns home to rural Ireland, in this noirish metaphysical novel from the author of Solar Bones

Its been 12 years since Cole wowed critics with his debut Open City, in which a psychiatrist wanders Brussels and New York musing on the legacies of historical bloodshed.

Weighing in at a slender 179 pages, McCormack’s quarry is the elusive stuff of consciousness itself

What happens to the father of Nealon, the protagonist of This Plague of Souls, his new novel, is also what happened to the author’s father

Large crowds expected in Castlebar from Monday for renowned literary festival

The days are counting down to this year’s Castlebar literary festival, Wild Atlantic Words, with a stellar lineup of guests across a wide spectrum of pros...