David Marshall is a contemporary Irish essayist whose work focuses on civic systems, democracy, governance, and the ...

A Beginner’s Guide from a (Very Recent) Beginner Scientists sewing mice together. That’s what I heard on the radio one summer afternoon in 2018: a young ...

Founded in 2016, the Wild Atlantic Words literary festival aims to celebrate the literary heritage of our rugged coastline over several days of readings, recitals, debates and reflection, while ...

It’s been fifty one years since I dropped out of university in Durban on the east coast of South Africa, to go and find out about life. Dropped out is probably egging it a bit. I didn’t get much ...

Iceapelago 3, the final book in my climate fiction trilogy won a READERS FAVORITE award. And the sequel, The Kish Lighthouse Keeper, is scheduled for publication in January. I have started work on ...

For fifteen years I was a diplomatic security advisor for the EU and the UK governments, mostly in conflict-afflicted and fragile environments in Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan. I am using ...

Welcome to this week’s Irish bestselling books where non-fiction and children’s titles have really made a splash this week. In Non-Fiction, we’ve got All In by Peter ...

Competition deadline: 31st October 2026 Welcome to the first-ever New Writers Novel Prize, in association with The Novel Factory. We are seeking the first 500 words of your unpublished novel or ...

My hometown Plovdiv is the oldest inhabited city in Europe. It used to sit on nine hills, now only six. When the seventh hill was destroyed, its rocks, like a crawling stone serpent, paved ...

Working-class Britain reads – so why is it missing from the story of Britain’s reading crisis? As Britain battles a national decline in reading, The Bee is challenging one of the assumptions ...

Legends, Trailblazers & Everyday Heroes – winner of Teen & YA Book of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards – a lot of people asked ...

Diana Janney, author of A Man of Understanding, on the inspiration behind and the themes explored in her compelling new novel, The Zen Violinist. My intention in all my novels is to make big ...