Welcome to this week’s Irish bestselling books, where World Book Day is sending sales surging and dominating the Top 20 – but there are a few other books doing very well too, including ...

Poet Marion Lougheed with some invaluable tips for putting together and publishing a collection of your poetry. In the last few years, I crafted various versions of what eventually became Baggage ...

Author Nicole Liang on her fascinating life journey and how she came to write her novel, The Deflector . . . Growing up, I’ve always been intrigued by fantasy and storytelling. Sometime in primary ...

Chris Bridges, author of psychological thriller, The Death Bed, with some top tips when it comes to writing about health care in your fiction . . . I aspired to be a writer from a young age but ...

Estrela Lourenço, illustrator of Mimi the Dancing Bee, on her fascinating journey from science to animation to storyboarding and on to writing and illustrating children’s books. I think I’m ...

If you’re ready for BIG support, proven strategy and time saving ways of writing and getting published, read on. Do you want to learn what you need to know to get your story or book FINISHED, ...

Competition deadline: 31st May 2026 The Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2026 is open for entries ...

I have always loved a heist story. It’s like catnip to me. Stick a heist into any kind of story and you have my immediate attention. Add magic and books, of course, and I am all in. The Book of Gold, ...

The Irish Bestsellers brough to you in the week that the An Post Irish Book Awards shortlisted titles were announced at a glittering ceremony at the GPO in O’Connell Street.

Camilla Macpherson, first prize short story winner in the 2023 Plaza Prizes, recently caught up with Rémy Ngamije, one of the judges in the 2024 competition, to find out more about his creative life.

American author Dianne Jacob’s book, Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Blogs, Reviews, Memoir, and More, is an essential reference book for food writers and food bloggers ...

Part 2 of author Michael Clemenger’s article the role of the women of Cumann na Bhan who fought in the 1916 Rising and the subsequent civil war. Read Part 1 of this article here. The Role of ...