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• The Test of Time
  Anyone else agree that books chosen as texts for exams are the ultimate turn off for any young teenager? Even as a keen reader I can still remember trying to trawl my way through ‘Far From the Madding...
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• Spending Heritage Week with local authors
  Click play to listen to the audio transcript of this post. Photo: Author Jan Carson and Peter Hughes, Stock dept, Libraries NI We celebrated Heritage Week in Belfast Central Library earlier this mont...
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• Thrillers, psychological et al
  Can I confess now that as well as all the books I have mentioned previously I am partial to the odd thriller and police procedural too!  Recently I listened to Lockdown by Peter May – this was a nove...
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• Agatha Christie in the Library with a Candlestick
  Audio version Having just watched a crime drama series on Channel 4 called Hierro (Spanish with English subtitles and highly recommended 😊) I am having a nostalgic look back to when I lived in a nei...
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• Writers in our Midst
  There is a vast army of creative writers in our midst, people who have the urge to write, to share their story or to invent new ones. To support their desire to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboar...
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• Robert Harris
  In my opinion Robert Harris as an author is a force to be reckoned with - I first read Pompeii, one of his early books, about the days before the tragic eruption of Vesuvius and was vividly transporte...
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• Award Winning Irish Authors
  In conversation with a Reading Group member recently I was reminded of some of the great contemporary Irish authors and the books of theirs that I love. I challenge anyone to read ‘The Hearts Invisibl...
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• From Borderlands to the Empty Room with plenty of Bad Blood along the way
  My first introduction to local author Brian McGilloway was quite a few years ago at a Creative Writing Workshop which he took in Ballymena Central. It was part of a number of sessions. Brian wrote the...
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• Meet The Author Denise Mina
  What a delight it was to meet crime author Denise Mina recently. She was in Armagh for the John Hewitt Summer School for an interview with Brian McGilloway but very generously agreed to meet up for co...
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• Time to suspend our disbelief Science Fiction and Fantasy
  Click play to listen to the audio transcript of this post. I suppose it is no surprise that the popularity in Sci-Fi and Fantasy has grown substantially in recent years. Fantasy in particular has bec...
  Type: Web Page Date: 09/04/2025