Irish teenager is youngest recipient in Queen Elizabeth’s birthday honours

Undertones frontman Feargal Sharkey is made an OBE in this year’s list

Neck trouble, philosophy and defiance: A literary guide to middle age

Our middle years have had a makeover thanks to some excellent recent literature

Bitchy reviews? They don’t bother queen of the Aga saga Joanna Trollope

As her 20th novel ‘City of Friends’ is published, the novelist talks about her career, critics and sex in older age

When a woman says no she means no - even to you Poldark

Hard truths and hot faces in creative writing

Having given up my legal career in Dublin to pursue a master’s in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, now I am faced with the realities of my new path