Another week in the Irish bestselling books charts, and we have a brand new runaway no. 1. At the top of both the Top 20 and the Children’s Top 10 we have the latest Lottie Brooks story: The ...

The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) reveal the longlists for the prestigious 2026 Dagger Awards, celebrating the very best ...

Competition deadline: 1st June 2026 The Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2026 is now open for submissions. Poems entered may be on any subject and in any poetic format but no more than 60 ...

The Reading Agency today announces a landmark UK prison reading campaign, made possible with the generous support of The Henry Smith Foundation during the government-backed National Year of ...

The Evolution of American Film Music, 1960s-1990s by Wayne Byrne and Amanda Kramer. I remember one of the first instances of my being aware of a film’s score.

Competition deadline: 27th May 2026 The Pitching Competition at the Film Fair, the industry market of the Galway Film Fleadh, ...

Some years ago I wrote “The Elvis Diaries,” a conceptual book written in the voice of “The King”. He’d always wanted to write an autobiography, intending to call it “Through My Eyes,” but never ...

Angela Smith writes about Eileen O’Shaughnessy, George Orwell’s wife. Eileen Maud O’Shaughnessy Blair was a remarkable woman who, in her brief 39 years, helped ...

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Perpetual Motion: how a polyglot life between worlds shaped Vanessa Fabiano’s first book, Chinese on the Beach . . . When I first went to China in 1994, I had no intention of writing a book ...

Prologues originate from Greek drama, from the word prologos which means before word. They were used to introduce the play to come. Examples of these are in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and also… ...