Booker Prize 2019: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo are joint winners
Evaristo is first black woman to win prize; Handmaid’s Tale sequel is second win for Atwood
Evaristo is first black woman to win prize; Handmaid’s Tale sequel is second win for Atwood
To mark Africa Day, Ireland’s annual celebration of its African community, The Irish Times literary correspondent picks her favourite African titles
To mark Freedom Day in South Africa, the Irish Times literary correspondent offers her selection of its finest literary works
Brought to Book Q&A: Irish author and academic on how he writes and what he reads
Critic of apartheid had ability to transform experience of racial politics into literature
Nadine Gordimer: November 20th, 1923 - July 13th, 2014
Many of her stories dealt with South Africa’s segregated system under white-minority rule
The story of the true-life murder of a mother and children is let down by unconvincing melodramatic subplots
Chinua Achebe best known for breakthrough novel ‘Things fall Apart’
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices