FROM working with London fashion designer Vivienne Westwood to being a lead knitwear designer with outdoor clothing company Timberland and later becoming head gardener at Mount Stewart, Comber-based artist Eoin Lane has certainly found success in more than one medium of artistic expression.

FICTION The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman is published in hardback by Viking, priced £18.

I was six or seven when I first visited O'Connell Street.

DURING lockdown, most of us learnt to love our local parks.

Fiction Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks is published in hardback by Hutchinson, priced £20 (ebook £9.

UNSURPRISINGLY, my favourite genre of books are usually to do with politics.

HOW does an author follow their debut hit? It's a question Paula Hawkins, whose debut The Girl On The Train was a smash hit, prefers not to ask herself.

Theatre audiences can soon look forward to seeing a new play based on Brian Moore’s most famous novel. Adapting The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne for the stage has been a formidable challenge – and as playwright Vittoria Cafolla tells Noel McAdam, one she might not have taken on had she known the Belfast author had written his own version

A CAMERA club founded 65 years ago has released a book of photographs capturing lockdown as members prepare to meet up for the first time since last March.

DERRY-born author and elite mountain runner Moire O'Sullivan captures the beauty and healing qualities of the Mourne Mountains in her latest book, A Quarter Glass of Milk: The Rawness of Grief and the Power of the Mountains.

As the new school year starts, one teacher - the anonymous author of Class War: A Teacher's Diary - explains why he isn't returning to the classroom after a 25-year career teaching in and around Belfast 

LIKE Northern Ireland itself, Brian Moore was born in 1921, on August 25 at the family home on Clifton Street, in north Belfast, as - according to family legend - the sound of gunshots could be heard.

BILLY SUMMERS by Stephen King is published in hardback by Hodder & Stoughton, priced £20 (ebook £10.

SID Owen will forever be known as hapless mechanic Ricky Butcher, one half of stormy ex-EastEnders couple Ricky and Bianca, his name being shouted in not-so-dulcet tones by his on-screen spouse, played by Patsy Palmer.

BELFAST'S Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival (CQAF) will return next month, bringing 10 days of live music, comedy, literature, theatre and more to the city centre.

WIVES of great writers assume different roles.

The Linen Hall Library in Belfast has become the first library in the world to be awarded a diversity and inclusion certificate.

1. When did you think about a career in writing and what were your first steps into it? Writing is something I'd always dreamt of, but was never quite brave enough to give it a try.

A NEW festival will celebrate the life and work of Belfast author Brian Moore this month.