The Irish Literary Times

This latest exemplar of the fad for biographical fiction contrasts the marriages of three poets, two of them real, one fictional.

Two Irish authors have made the 16-strong longlist for the world’s richest short story award.
MJ Hyland, whose novels are Carry Me Down, How The Light Gets In and This Is How, has been longlisted for her story, Somebody Else’s Bed. David Park, whose work includes Swallowing the Sun, The Big Snow, The Truth Commissioner and The Light of Amsterdam, is longlisted for Learning To Swim.

THE subject of writers' wives has become a hot topic lately. Last year saw the publication of both Call Me Zelda and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. While Claire Tomalin's 1990 book, Th

This has been a good year for Belfast readers: a new book by Glenn Patterson and a debut novel by Sophie Hillan, and now a new novel by the old master himself – and it's a cracker.

Three Irish authors have been nominated for the largest literary prize in the world for a novel published in English.

 Works by Donal Ryan, Colm Toibin and David Park are among 152 titles in the running for the 100,000 euro International Impac Dublin Literary Award.