Declan Burke Writes

It’s a pic-a-nic, Boo-Boo. If you do happen to be in the vicinity of the Electric Picnic this coming Saturday, September 4th, here’s a gent...

John Spain, literary editor at the Irish Independent, lamented the State of the Irish Novel back at the end of December, the gist of his p...

It’s Monday, they’re reviews, to wit: “It’s possible that Banville is the best writer at work in the genre at the moment, in terms of artfu...

Mia Gallagher’s debut novel utilises two risky devices to embellish its narrative, but boy, do they work. Firstly, the protagonist, Lucy Do...

So don’t you play with Mia / ’Cos you’re playin’ with fire. HELLFIRE , that is, Mia Gallagher’s cracking debut tale, three copies of which...

It's like we keep telling you, people: crime always pays. There’s a pretty decent Irish crime fiction representation at next Saturday...

Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ... What crime novel would you most like to...

How long has it been since we mentioned Eoin Colfer on these pages? That’s right, too long. “Another entertaining adventure from Eoin Colfe...

Mia Gallagher’s Hellfire , published by Penguin at the beginning of summer, somehow managed to slip under the Crime Always Pays radar, for ...