Karin Slaughter: ‘I want to show how one act of violence can have a ripple effect that changes the lives of everyone’
‘Atlanta is an enormously diverse city, and Georgia has a lot of small towns and beautiful mountains. It’s perfect for murder’
Chidi Ebere wins best debut over 50 prize
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The Rockies Road from Dublin to Colorado’s natural highs
Take a train from summer to snow, go on a moose hunt in the mountains, lose your mind at the Shining hotel or catch a top basketball or ice hockey game
The best books of 2024 so far: writers and critics choose their favourite reads
Colm Tóibín’s Long Island, Lucy Caldwell’s Openings, Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits and Niamh Mulvey’s The Amendments are among the novels with multiple selections
‘My friendship with Leonard Cohen was another kind of fraternal relationship’
John MacKenna on working for RTÉ, his friendship with Leonard Cohen and his latest book, Father, Son and Brother Ghost
Una Mannion wins Gold Dagger Award
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David Nash wins Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize
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Alvy Carragher: ‘Poetry seems to pull out and piece together the heart of the matter’
What Remains the Same is published by the Gallery Press
Soula Emmanuel wins SoA award
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‘I felt the social divisions much more acutely in England than I do in Northern Ireland’
Belfast writer Aimée Walsh on violence against women, ‘assertive’ Northern Irish writing, and laughing out loud at Joe Lycett’s audiobook
VV Ganeshananthan and Naomi Klein win Women’s prizes for fiction and non-fiction
Brotherless Night wins Fiction Prize; Doppelganger wins Non-Fiction Prize, both worth £30,000
Liz Nugent up for top crime prize
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Thriller writer Andrea Mara: ‘My mother-in-law was Ireland’s first female private investigator, and my husband helped her with cases’
The author on the premise of her new novel (’what if there really was someone living in the attic?’); being a late starter; and writing about rich south Dubliners
Annie West archives acquired by TCD and NLI
Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Colm Tóibín to do one-off Dingle Lit event
First winner of Caterpillar Poetry Prize wins again
UK children’s laureate Joseph Coelho chooses Louise Greig 10 years after her first success