This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Porcupines by Fran Fabriczki and The Wreck by Lizzy Stewart.

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke and My Year In Paris With Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy.

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Permanence by Sophie Mackintosh and The Body Builders by Albertine Clarke

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Kin by Tayari Jones and Original Sin by Kathryn Paige Harden.

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester and Sisters In Yellow by Mieko Kawakami.

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Under Water by Tara Menon and Judge Stone by James Patterson and Viola Davis.

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of A Far-Flung Life by M L Stedman and A History Of France In 21 Women by Katherine Pangonis.

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of A Hymn To Life by Gisele Pelicot and Nonesuch by Francis Spufford.

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Crux by Gabriel Tallent and Jean by Madeleine Dunnigan.

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash and Stowaways by Andre Aciman.

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of A Bad, Bad Place by Frances Crawford and A Guardian And A Thief by Megha Majumdar.

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Departure(s) by Julian Barnes and Evil Bones by Kathy Reichs.

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino and Grace by Chika Unigwe.

Award-winning novelist Eimear McBride has been named as judge of this year’s Wild Atlantic Words short story competition.

The acclaimed Belfast poet died last month aged 85.

Mr Longley died at the age of 85 after winning world-wide renown for his writing.

Her book Orbital, about astronauts looking down at Earth, was named as the winner of the £50,000 prize.

Scotland’s former first minister was interviewing author Paul Lynch.

The author died peacefully on Saturday following a long illness, a statement from her agent and publishing house said.

Children in Belmullet, Newport, Louisburgh and Westport will welcome a first-of-its-kind creative roadshow led by Laureate na nÓg Patricia Forde next week.

The Co Down novelist will be based at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast for two years.

The 46-year-old, who lives in Dublin, was presented with his trophy during a ceremony in London

The Irish author reflected on being declared cancer free, authoritarianism and being on the prestigious shortlist.

Alongside them are three North American writers and a British novelist.