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In 2020, over 155 million people listened to a podcast every week. And whatever your niche interest, whether it's food history or wild swimming, there's a show to match it, most likely hosted by an expert enthusiast in that area. The book world is no exception. Authors Elizabeth Day, Gillian McAllister and Daisy Buchanan all host very popular and much downloaded podcasts. So, what's in it for them? Caroline O'Donoghue, author of two novels for adults and a YA novel, All Our Hidden Gifts (out with Walker Books in February), gets approximately 30,000 downloads per month on her podcast, Sentime...

The best crime fiction of 2020: Liz Moore, Jane Casey, Scott Turow and more Declan Burke and Declan Hughes, our crime-writing specialists, share their picks of the year Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 06:00 Declan Burke and Declan Hughes Liz Moore, author of Long Bright River. A strong year for Irish crime fiction opened with Nicola White’s A Famished Heart (Viper), in which religious martyrdom provides the motive for a suspicious death. Malachi O’Doherty’s debut Terry Brankin H...

  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. Mahon's last is vividly alive. Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters, edited by Nienke Bakker, Leo Jansen and Hans Luijten (Thames & Hudson) is a judicious selection from the magnificent six-volume Complete Letters of 2009. Had he not been a pain...

Jasper County Board Reviews Law Enforcement Center Plans Published on December 11 2020 1:52 pm Last Updated on December 11 2020 1:52 pm Written by Greg Sapp Jasper County Board members Thursday reviewed plans for a new law enforcement center. A 40-page presentation from the architecture firm detailed roofing, elevation, wall structure, plumbing, sprinkler system, sanitary, handicapped accessibility, electrical, lighting and the general floor plan.  The design process is about 85% complete and current plans and design have been shared with the Department of Corrections. The thought ...

Sinéad Crowley's books of the year Updated / Friday, 11 Dec 2020 11:15 Author and RTÉ News Arts and Media Correspondent Sinéad Crowley rounds up her books of 2020 Well that was quite the year. I know many people vowed to read more books during the dark days of 2020, and I also know many of them ended up playing with their phones instead and that’s perfectly fine, because just getting through 2020 was an achievement in itself, without any need to feel bad about unrealised goals. But for those of us who do enjoy reading, books were a lifesaver this year, transporting us to other places a...