HI JIMMY, what are you up to today? I'm in the Maldives, where I've got a show tonight.

WHEN a young Irish nun fled her convent one foggy winter night dressed only in her nightgown, she could not have known the series of extraordinary events she was to spark in Australia's religious history – including her demanding that a bishop publicly apologise for dismissing her as mad.

The book is a memoir, but beyond that it's about the value of getting in contact with the old way of death, of dealing with death by potentially socialising it

A Legacy of Spies by John Le Carré, published in hardback by Viking THERE are two views of John Le Carré’s work: some consider that he has effectively blended high-end literature with his chosen genre, the spy novel; others think him a brilliant genre writer whose works are weakened by his literary pretensions.

NON-FICTION The Choice by Edith Eger, published in hardback by Rider EDITH Eger was rescued from a death march by American troops in 1945, but it was years before she was finally free.

NETFLIX has just released the third season of Narcos, its groundbreaking drama which tells the story of organised crime in Colombia.

FROM car salesman to world traveller to pastry chef, cookery school tutor and now author, Niall Murphy admits he was something of a late starter when figuring out what to do with his life.

1. When did you think about poetry as a career and what were your first steps into it? I began thinking about it as a career about six months ago and realised it was too late to go down that road.