To mark Amnesty's International Women's Day Festival, Fishamble Theatre Company asked a group of writers to pen a story about a piece of clothing, for a one-off performance on 5 March. Here's what Maeve Binchy and Gavin Kostick came up with...
Indeed, our first couple of dinner parties went tremendously well. But then my prospective father-in-law's Mercedes was broken into while they were visiting, and shortly after my own more demure Saab had a window broken and some nasty scratches put on the paintwork.
Dear Póilín,
Since the publication four years ago of John Irving's last novel The Fourth Hand, there has been little news of the author except for a few sightings and the release of the film adaptation of his novel A Widow for One Year.
A New Beginning is a charity compilation book from Bloomsbury with contributions from 16 authors to raise revenue for tsnumai relief. The impressive roster includes Coelho,McEwan,Coetzee.Atwood,Binchy.Keyes and Mark Haddon.
Diarmaid Ferriter reviews a new book that looks at the issue of back street abortions in 20th century Ireland and writes of the silence and stigma that still persists
The sky they met under was typical for that time of year. The light falling away West, pink and blue, suffused with static electricity. A slight swirling breeze and the feeling that anything might happen...
Just over four hundred years ago, on January 16, 1605, there appeared the first part of a text entitled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, supposedly based in part on an Arabic manuscript by a certain Cide Hamete Benengeli. This manuscript, of course, like its supposed author, never existed, as much part of the fertile imagination of Miguel de Cervantes as Don Quixote himself.
First published in 1989, Touchstone is Peter Egan's first novel for children and it is quite an extraordinary achievement when you take into account how long ago it is since it was conceived.
Jim Dee examines the veracity of a book that claims there is an underworld of 'Economic Hit Men' maintaining and encouraging world debt
Alice Sebold debut book The Lovely Bones has captivated most of the world and has attracted the attention of film director Peter Jackson.
Michael Crighton book States of Fear written before the December tsunami lends a chilling weight of prescience to the work.
Waterstones on the Net and Joe Gordon the blogger in his book about his employer "Bastardstones"
Book signing and how its done by Simon Hoggart and Margaret Atwood
The 70s are Back with Jonathan Coe's book The Rotters Club