ROGER McGough remains a cool dude at the age of 80.

THE Boston Tapes and anorexia collide in an intergenerational novel which has been selected by Libraries NI as its inaugural One Book NI projects – a Northern Ireland-wide book-club-style initiative which aims to get people reading and talking about the same book.

HE SUSPECTS he has covered more murders and funerals than almost anyone else in a 30-plus career on the frontline of Northern Ireland's Troubles, so 'Big Ivan' Little says a coping mechanism was fundamental to the job.

HOW To Train Your Dragon author Cressida Cowell knows things are going well when she's sobbing in her writing shed, tucked away in her back garden.

FORMER Tyrone GAA captain Sean Cavanagh has spoken about his "hero" Cormac McAnallen and how he tried to model his life on him after his death. 

1. When did you think about a career in writing and what were your first steps into it? When I was about eight years old I read a pile of Roald Dahl books.

ANYBODY who has been to one of the top literary festivals knows what the appeal is.

THERE is an image of me in the GAA world, and even in the smaller circles around me, as a tough, distrusting, money man; a manipulator of the media and my opponents, a closed and secretive individual ...