Trespasses by Louise Kennedy I am in awe of this book. I listened to it first on Audible, a wonderful interpretation, then ...

The Secret of the Clay was written out of years of curiosity about the iconic image of Padraic Pearse’s surrender to the British forces commanding Officer Major General WHM Lowe in the 1916 surrender ...

Stormzy has thrown his support behind The Reading Agency’s Quick Reads, the flagship UK-wide initiative designed to engage ...

From the City Rush to Coastal Gothic Laura Clarke Walker, author of Coldharbour: How my previous career helped me make the ...

Carmel Wynne tells us of her journey to the publication of Get Real! The Courage to Be Wrong and the Power to Change . . . If ...

David Fickling Books are looking for a special new storyteller. Could it be you? Storytellers are at the very heart ...

With it being St. Brigid’s Day, I thought that it was a good time to write a piece about St. Brigid. Brigid was born in ...

The Society of Authors has launched a ground-breaking report about the impact of Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).

Bookshop.org is bringing back its charitable initiative Read It Forward for a third year in a row, in partnership with BookTrust and Scottish Book Trust. Once again in February 2026, 10% of every ...

Welcome back to another week in the Irish bestselling books charts, where we’re celebrating Irish women writers this week.

At the centre of my writing room a stout desk of dark wood sits, its green leather top decorated with gilt curlicues. It is, I think, called a pedestal desk because it’s held up by two drawer ...

Don’t Steal from Yourself! The Mercier Press Guidelines on AI Tools for Authors The Golden Rule for First Drafts Never let AI ...