“I MUST have something mis-wired in my brain,” says journalist and author Caitlin Moran, speaking on the phone from her home in London, “because I can talk about absolutely any aspect of my physical or emotional state, and just find it incredibly funny.

SECRETS, lies, murder and domestic abuse fuse in Cork writer Louise O'Neill's latest novel, After the Silence.

A school boy from Northern Ireland has won a major UK literary prize.

THERE have been countless ‘exiles’ from Northern Ireland over the years, but now a quiet minority who abandoned their homeland in the name of love are having their voices heard in a third book published by the Northern Ireland Mixed Marriage Association (NIMMA).

YOU may associate Radio Ulster broadcaster and popular DJ David ‘Rigsy’ O’Reilly more with music, than sport or literature, but over the past couple of years the 41-year-old has not only founded his own football team but also penned his debut novel.

FICTION Summerwater by Sarah Moss is published by Picador in hardback, priced £14.

WITH the electoral destruction of the Irish Parliamentary Party in 1918, Sinn Féin became the effective voice of Irish nationalism.

JUST seven years ago, bestselling women's fiction novelist Lisa Jewell changed course to focus her writing on dark psychological thrillers.