‘Ciaran Carson drew Belfast better than anyone I ever read’
Sinéad Morrissey, John Banville and fellow writers salute a great man and a great poet
Man Booker Prize: Belfast writer Anna Burns wins for ‘Milkman’
First Irish writer to win prestigious £50,000 award since Anne Enright in 2007
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Sara Baume at UL; Neil Hegarty turns to fiction; Patrick Gale in Belfast
Adrian McKinty signs on wavy line; Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer; Peter McDonald at TCD; Allingham Festival
Will a more affecting psychological thriller appear this year?
Declan Burke reviews the best new crime fiction including Colette McBeth’s The Life I Left Behind
Death in paradise: Adrian McKinty and the strange case of the Cocovores
The crime writer has turned away from Northern Ireland for his new novel, about a murder in a German nudist religious cult in the South Pacific a century ago
Crime: thrillers from Alafair Burke, Marc Dugain, Alan Furst, Karin Fossum and Adrian McKinty
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