Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Dylan Thomas Prize; Classics Now; The Last Boy; Mick Herron award; Susan ...

A barbecue, a protest ... or a good book? We asked some of our leading historians to choose an essential Australia Day read. Here are the works they ...

O’Brien had earlier run away with her older lover, Ernest Gebler, which led to a farcical and ultimately unsuccessful attempt ...

Award-winning author, Professor Paul Crawford tells us about how his latest novel, The Wonders of Doctor Bent, drew on the ...

Cappahard Lodge, Ennis, Co. Clare and formerly of Ashfield Park, Ennis, Co. Clare. 8th January 2025 (peacefully) in the attentive care of the staff at Cappahard Lodge. Sadly missed by his brothers ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Hamlet, the English poet John Donne and 2001: A Space Odyssey have been dumped from the list of texts Year 12 English students will ...

We have worked with poetry and prose works by working-class writers like John Clare, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. In addition, postcolonial texts by authors such as Alex La Guma and Cornelia Sorabji - all ...

The Lycidas, for instance, is a pastoral elegy on the Alexandrian model; but how strangely is the temper of the Greek original changed when the English poet blazes forth in Puritan indignation ...

The death has occurred (peacefully) in the loving care of the nurses and staff in The Alder Ward of St. Joseph’s Hospital, Ennis surrounded by his loving family of Predeceased by his parents Jack and ...

Decades later it still performs the same service for her and millions of us. Singers, writers and poets have hymned our love of it. No wonder the smallest tweaks make waves. An attempt to move it ...

Today, we spotlight pastoral poet John Denver. “Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong.” Do you like James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot, Jim Croce and stargazing in the wilderness?