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Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize diary: ‘This has been the greatest week of my life. This is living, as Camus once put it, to the point of tears.’
Book Reviews
Typhoons and tantrums – how Francis Ford Coppola survived an Apocalypse
Books
Author Dee Barragry: ‘Two rabbits, one acid-pink and one mouthwash-blue, romping through a bucolic haven, made an indelible impression’
Book Reviews
Sandra Newman’s feminist retelling of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is bold but bungled in parts
Sandra Newman’s feminist retelling of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is bold but bungled in parts
Sun 03 Dec 2023 at 03:30
Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize diary: ‘This has been the greatest week of my life. This is living, as Camus once put it, to the point of tears.’
Sun 03 Dec 2023 at 03:30
Sarah Webb on the top 20 Irish kids’ books of 2023
Sat 02 Dec 2023 at 03:30
The end of the world is nigh and full of heavy-handed symbolism
Sat 02 Dec 2023 at 03:30
“We now have a family that’s not functioning like a family. Or, not like the family we were sold.” Omid Scobie on Endgame and palace politics
Fri 01 Dec 2023 at 01:01
Controversial book about royal family pulled from shelves in the Netherlands
Wed 29 Nov 2023 at 12:26
Controversial book about royal family pulled from shelves in the Netherlands
Wed 29 Nov 2023 at 07:22
Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch: ‘The riots are a wake-up call for Ireland’
Wed 29 Nov 2023 at 03:30
How drugs ruined Sly Stone’s career and this frustrating story of his life
Wed 29 Nov 2023 at 03:30
The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel culture does exist — and no one is immune
Tue 28 Nov 2023 at 03:30
‘Actors go through the wringer, I didn’t want that any more’ — Love/Hate’s Susan Loughnane on giving up acting to write children’s books
Tue 28 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Tanya Sweeney: After 15 years of ‘drilling through granite rock’ Booker-winner Paul Lynch’s hard-won anonymity is finally gone
Mon 27 Nov 2023 at 19:25
Irish author Paul Lynch accepts Booker Prize award for his novel 'Prophet Song'
Mon 27 Nov 2023 at 12:06
Paul Lynch becomes only sixth Irish author to win Booker Prize with novel Prophet Song
Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 22:57
‘As if the whole country had stopped to listen.’ How The Gay Byrne Show transfixed a nation
Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Peter Swanson’s Christmas novella is funny, clever and gripping – with twists that will blow you away
Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Sarah Binchy: My aunt Maeve’s approach to writing is a helpful touchstone for my own work
Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Books diary: A great night at the An Post Irish Book Awards, readings for Palestine and counting down to the Booker Prize
Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Paul Auster’s Baumgartner is slender and surprising
Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 03:30
William Faulkner’s fever dream Stories of the Deep South is a fine riposte to sceptics
Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Micheline Sheehy Skeffington’s tale gives hope to female academics everywhere
Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Karen Powell brings Emily Brontë’s disdain and devotion back to life
Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Capital’s many faces brought to life in eclectic collection of stories
Sat 25 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Paul Murray on why he almost gave up writing: ‘There was no escape... It felt like I had been shamed’
Sat 25 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Liz Nugent: ‘I am more than happy to sit with the crime family’
Thu 23 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Paul Murray scoops novel of the year at An Post Irish Book Awards ahead of fellow Booker hopeful Lynch
Wed 22 Nov 2023 at 23:31
How do I enter the New Irish Writing competition in the Irish Independent?
Mon 20 Nov 2023 at 15:20
Sex, lies and literary greats: The Paris set gave us great art, but did young women become collateral damage?
Sun 19 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Political prisoners may pay price, but two books reveal Vladimir Putin’s perilous path
Sun 19 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Dr Marie Cassidy diagnoses yet another murder mystery – with her debut novel
Sun 19 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Humphrey Jervis, The Wide Streets Commission and the making of modern Dublin
Gin-swilling whores and pacey page-turners in this selection of 1960s classic crime fiction
Trope of the fat cat barrister shattered with stories of the soul-sapping daily grind
Naturalist and writer Michael Viney bequeaths us an enriching parting gift
Blindboy Boatclub: ‘We can trace Christianity’s sexual morality to St Augustine’s torment. He’d be a pure melt if he were alive today’
How Churchill’s dream of killing communism sank in the Russian snow
Horrors of Mao’s China serve as a warning for today
Matt Cooper shows how foreign property investors made a killing and asks: would we miss them?
Meet the authors contending for the Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year award
Book club continues to find new meaning in James Joyce tome 28 years after opening it
‘It’s probably the biggest thing that makes me miserable’ – how social media is making young women feel judged
Dolly Alderton’s insightful take on break-ups and being single again in your 30s
‘Stoicism taught me how to stop worrying, it made me calmer. It has changed my life’
‘They found every part of him except his brain – we had no corpse’
Writer Ivy Bannister: ‘I came to Ireland knowing nobody. Within a week I had friends’
‘My being is actually fidelity. All those whom I have grown fond of in some way, I am faithful to afterward’ – the remarkable life, and loves, of Ingmar Bergman
Books diary: Chatting to Neil Jordan in Lisbon and a big week for awards with fingers crossed for the two Pauls
New Yorker’s David Remnick gets an ‘access all areas’ pass to revisit Springsteen, Dylan and Cohen
Mike McCormack’s metaphysical thriller is a slow burn into the past’s shadowy hinterland
John Boyne’s Water is a scorching, devastating tale of the evil men do
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