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Best Home Cook winner Suzie Lee on embracing Cantonese food

Jenny Lee

WHEN we hear a mention of 'Chinese food' we often conjure up the vivid images and delicious smells of familiar dishes like chicken fried rice, sweet and sour pork, spring rolls and chow mein.

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Arts Q&A: Author Cathy Kelly on Neil Diamond, Jilly Cooper and Aliens

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TV Quickfire: Creator Neil Gaiman and star Tom Sturridge on adapting The Sandman for the screen

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Best-selling crime author Kathy Reichs on new novel Cold Cold Bones

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Cormac Moore: Michael Collins ultimately failed northern nationalists despite passion for ending partition

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Tony Macaulay on the bread and butter business of writing and peace building

Jenny Lee 23 Jul, 2022

THE year in 1977 – the Bee Gees fill the airwaves, everyone is in love with Princess Leia, Elvis Presley is dead.

Michelle Obama's new book to be published this autumn

21 Jul, 2022

The Light We Carry is the former first lady’s first entirely new work since the 2018 release of her acclaimed blockbuster Becoming.

Mick Rock: Shooting the 70s and the Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust

Richard Purden 15 Jul, 2022

KNOWN as 'The Man Who Shot the 70s', legendary photographer Mick Rock played an essential role in framing David Bowie when the music star was still an unknown.

Tributes to Joan Lingard, author of Kevin and Sadie book series, following her death age 90

Paul Ainsworth 14 Jul, 2022

THE author of a young adult book series set during the Troubles - beginning with The Twelfth of July - died on the date the book is named for, her family confirmed.

When silence spoke volumes: Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher's Britain

13 Jul, 2022

ROBERT Savage's well researched volume, Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher's Britain, details how the Thatcher government sought to control the narrative of the Northern Ireland Troubles through manipulation of the British media by the use of censorship.

Belfast-born Man Booker Prize winner Anna Burns awarded honorary degree by QUB

Suzanne McGonagle 05 Jul, 2022

MAN Booker Prize winner Anna Burns was yesterday awarded an honorary degree by Queen's University Belfast.

Michael Longley: Belfast poet wins €250,000 prize

04 Jul, 2022

BELFAST-BORN poet Michael Longley has won a €250,000 (£216,000) European arts award.

Floella Benjamin: I still get asked, ‘What are you doing here?'

By Hannah Stephenson, PA 04 Jul, 2022

FROM Windrush child to TV presenter and life peer sitting in the House of Lords, Baroness Floella Benjamin is a testament to the power of positive thinking.

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Jane Hardy 02 Jul, 2022

Notes and musings from the arts scene as it steps into July, including The MAC looking to the future, by Jane Hardy DOES a setting affect the quality of the art or culture consumed within its walls? Put another way, would the Mona Lisa resonate so well in a more modest space outside the Louvre? Probably, even in a shed, but without the sheer pizzazz.

Tyrone author Michelle Gallen on Édith Piaf, Radiohead and what lessons politicians could learn from watching Paddington

29 Jun, 2022

1. When did you think about a career in writing and what were your first steps into it? I am not sure that I understand what a career in writing is even now, or how I should proceed in it.

James Joyce's Ulysses documentary 'a fine and stylish celebration' of Joyce's epic in its centenary year

David Roy 29 Jun, 2022

ADAM Low's new documentary James Joyce's Ulysses serves as a thoughtfully composed and scrupulously researched tribute to the infamous novel, which celebrates its centenary this year, and also as an engrossing point of access for those thus far defeated by the Irish literary maverick's most formidable and controversial tome.

Books: Fern Britton on single life in Cornwall, personal ambitions and royal scandals

By Hannah Stephenson, PA 27 Jun, 2022

WHILE some people just walked, chatted on Zoom and watched TV reruns during the pandemic, bestselling author and TV presenter Fern Britton was immersing herself in royal history.