Listowel Writers' Week
21.05.13 Listowel Writers Week is in its 42nd year, and once again will feature plenty of writing talent from home and abroad. Some of the newer features this year include a series of exchanges with literary events and festivals outside Ireland,...

Joe Prendergast
07.05.13 Joe Prendergast started writing at 5, bagged a dream book deal at 9 and has just published his second book at the age of 10!   10-year-old author Joe Prendergast has just finished his second book, The Twisted. The young Dubliner...

April Winner
29.04.13 Congratulations to James Curry from Dublin who was the winner of this month's Book Club review competition, for his review of "Strumpet City": Prose breaking into poetry, characters leaping from the page, history through the eyes of a...

Strumpet City review
16.04.13 Bob Johnston joined us to give his review of this iconic piece of Irish writing. Read his review below!Bob's review Set across seven years, from 1907 to 1914, 'Strumpet City' is an historical novel that centres on the Lockout of...

Strumpet City
09.04.13   Strumpet City by James Plunkett is our book club choice for April, and marks the centenary of the lockout of trade unionists by employers in 1913, on which the book is based.   The Lockout was a pivotal event in Irish...

March Winner
25.03.13 Congratulations to Jamie T Murphy from Co. Wexford who was the winner of the March Book Club competition, for her review of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.Here's Jamie's winning review..."Cloud Atlas. What? Sprawling. Mental. One story....

The classic novel
26.02.13 The book club choice for February is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - a classic novel which, though published two hundred years ago, remains popular to this day. We recently took a trip to St. Louis' High School in Rathmines in...

February winner
25.02.13 Congratulations to Susan Colgan who was the winner of the February Book Club competition, for her review of the literary classic Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen.Here's Susan's winning review....'Ladies. Who's pulse did not quicken as...

Pride & Prejudice
05.02.13   Last week we celebrated the enduring popularity of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, which we have chosen as our book of the month for February, as we marked the bicentenary of its publication.   And with the month that's...

From This Moment On
01.02.13   From this Moment on by Colette Caddle A dream she lost, a secret she must keep... Lynn Stephens' life has been tough recently, thanks to Vincent Boland, the manager at four-star hotel she works in. But, after standing up to...