Author Iain Banks dies months after revealing cancer battle
The author of books including the Wasp Factory had announced in April that he had advanced cancer.
View ArticleColumn: Why did JK Rowling feel the need to use a pseudonym?
It’s been revealed that the Harry Potter creator used a male pseudonym and is in fact the author of a new mystery crime novel – but Michelle Jackson writes that it is sad Rowling had to do that to...
View ArticleWhy on earth would a Muslim be writing about Jesus?
One Fox News anchor couldn’t seem to get her head around it.
View Article15 Shades of Gay... a look back at Uncle Gaybo through the years
There’s more to him than just The Late Late Show you know…
View ArticleAlice Munro declines Nobel awards invite due to poor health
The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is due to pick up a prize of US $1.2 million.
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling to produce Harry Potter play in London's West End
It’ll tell the story of Harry’s life before Hogwarts. Coooool.
View ArticleThis short Twitter story by R.L. Stine will give you Goosebumps all over again
The spooky tale by the childen’s horror author will take you right back.
View ArticleCuba makes Hemingway bills, letters and recipes available to USA
The Nobel Prize-winning author spent more than two decades living in Cuba.
View ArticleUS writer Peter Matthiessen dies aged 86
The author, who had been diagnosed with leukaemia, had been ill for a number of months.
View ArticleWhat if Game of Thrones author George RR Martin planned YOUR wedding?
There are no spoilers in here. None.
View ArticleWe studied Maya Angelou's writing in school - here's what she taught us
The author passed away today at the age of 86.
View ArticleThe first Irish memoir written using eye-gaze technology has been published
The author, Simon Fitzmaurice, was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease in 2008.
View Article7 important life lessons we learned from Maurice Sendak
The author of Where the Wild Things Are would have been 83 today.
View ArticleHere's What Happened Today: Thursday
Everyone’s talking about the cancelled Garth Brooks gigs, Enda in Germany and the price of cigarettes….
View ArticleHeirs of Sherlock Holmes author had their petition refused by US Supreme...
A court ruling stands that some of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories are no longer in copyright.
View ArticleJK Rowling continues her reign as queen of Twitter with this excellent...
Um, why is she not our best friend yet?
View ArticleOne day I was broke... then I got a call that changed everything
Colm Keegan is the new writer-in-residence at DLR Lexicon library in Dun Laoghaire.
View ArticleTerry Pratchett fans have begun to petition Death himself
It’s what he would have wanted.
View ArticleRoddy Doyle's latest project was launched in the most fitting way
His Barrytown Trilogy will be part of a book initiative in Dublin next month.
View ArticleHarper Lee's long-lost novel has arrived - here's what we think of the first...
There’s an exclusive extract on line today.
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