A BOOK examining the deaths of children during the Troubles has won a prestigious literary award.

YOU might imagine meals in Jamie Oliver's household to be blissful, well-mannered scenes of his picture-perfect family digging into his cookbook classics, so it's nice to know the TV chef and child health campaigner experiences the same problems as most parents when it comes to kids and food.

:: Ness by Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood is published in hardback by Hamish Hamilton, priced £14.

BELFAST'S No Alibis Press will be launching their latest publication with a special author event on Saturday.

RICK Stein's new cookbook and accompanying BBC series are both a love letter to France – that beloved bastion of cheese, bread and wine – and a credit to his 30-year long collaborator and director, David Pritchard.

HE MAY be 74, but the creative juices of rock legend Pete Townshend, songwriting powerhouse and lead guitarist in The Who, are ever-flowing.

ROCK booking agent turned crime thriller writer Paul Charles will celebrate the release of his latest novel with a free reading at No Alibis in Belfast tomorrow night

Madame Badobedah by Sophie Dahl, illustrated by Lauren O'Hara is published in hardback by Walker Books, priced £12.