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Tommy Tiernan and Aaron Monaghan are given comedic free rein as a pair of hapless, homeless siblings in Kevin Barry’s Beckettian take on rural dysfunction

Gifts sent from a loved one abroad at first bring warmth and joy, then grave alarm

From Picasso to Joyce, we’re hopelessly in thrall to the fallacy of the all-conquering intellect. Or are we?

The bible has been kept in Westminster Abbey’s library collection since the year it was printed.

The acclaimed short-story writer brings her characters vividly to life in this debut novel about a teenage girl’s assault and its aftermath

The Tour de France stage winner talks in detail for the first time about transitioning when her cycling career ended, growing up in the Gorbals and alienation in the peloton

Editorial: Having a separate award was good for female novelists. Now a medical author is blazing a trail with a true story

Magazine says Ryan’s efforts to spotlight lives of disabled people are ‘needed more than ever’

“Of course, some members of my family will never forgive me for writing a book. They will never forgive me for lots of things.” I stopped dead, almost dropping the glass I was holding; my face hot, my hands trembling. I turned the interview up, rewinding the snippet again and…

The author on her love for Spike Milligan, the furore over Puberty Blues, and why being middle-aged is great

From blackmail to burglary, the events of Spark’s life often uncannily echoed those of her novels – no wonder the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie believed she could predict the future