Working-class Britain reads – so why is it missing from the story of Britain’s reading crisis? As Britain battles a national decline in reading, The Bee is challenging one of the assumptions ...

Legends, Trailblazers & Everyday Heroes – winner of Teen & YA Book of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards – a lot of people asked ...

My hometown Plovdiv is the oldest inhabited city in Europe. It used to sit on nine hills, now only six. When the seventh hill was destroyed, its rocks, like a crawling stone serpent, paved ...

Limerick Writers’ Centre have announced the winner of the Gerald Griffin Competition for First Adult Fiction 2026. The atmosphere was one of celebration and literary promise at The ...

Competition deadline: 31st October 2026 Welcome to the first-ever New Writers Novel Prize, in association with The Novel Factory. We are seeking the first 500 words of your unpublished novel or ...

Diana Janney, author of A Man of Understanding, on the inspiration behind and the themes explored in her compelling new novel, The Zen Violinist. My intention in all my novels is to make big ...

Frankie Chase, debut author of Bad Winner, on her route from meandering to meaningful, life’s diversions and finding inspiration where you least expect it. Authoring is yet to make me my millions ...

An Post Bookshop of the Year’ category at this year’s An Post Irish Book Awards, the annual literary event that ...

Sarah Hannah Walsh on the creative journey that has resulted in the publication of her picture book, Aggie Witchfinder . . . I was working from home when I got the email from The O’Brien Press, ...

Welcome back to the Irish bestselling books lists. While it’s great to see some brand new releases in fiction hitting the charts this week, we’ve got some brilliant books in ...

The Shape of Monsters by C.L. Hellisen: A gothic descent into a world of darkness, magic and twisted loyalties. It started with an image of a tattooed man in his car, with his life in a shambles. I ...

It was 1988, a bad time for junior doctors in Ireland. There was endless wrangling about overtime payments, ending in a pittance being paid for all the extra hours you always had to work, anywhere ...