Thinking of becoming a beer geek? Mark Dredge's new book 'Craft Beer World' can help you do just that.
As classic novel The Commitments prepares to hit the stage for the first time, its author Roddy Doyle talks us through 50 songs he loves and the ones that make him proud to be Irish.
Author Tom Gillespie’s novel ‘Painting by Numbers’ has been nominated for The People’s Book Prize, but he'd rather be known as 'the next Murakami' than 'the next Dan Brown'.
'A Departure' is the first novel from GQ Norman Mailer Award Winner, Tom Ward. 'A Departure' is a 'horror story, road story, love story – a shockingly good debut novel about what happens when one world brutally ends and a new world begins...A cracking good read that has at its black heart hope, humanity and a dream of escape.' - Tony Parsons.
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With the toff at Number 10 capping benefits whilst trying to raise their own wages, it's about one of these literary anti-heroes leaps from the p...
The human soul needs travel to grow and be happy. Resisting this urge is like tethering a balloon in a gale. If you need a little help getting st...
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Focusing on one assassin's final mission, Nick Taussig gives the reader into life under the reign of terror under Stalin, while delving into Comm...
Massive sales and lucrative film adaptations mean teen fiction is more popular than ever, but which books should you start with?
All I wanted was to get lost in a good book, instead I got attacked by someone else's nether regions.
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Author Stefhan Bryan describes his sexual exploits (in fairly graphic detail) with a large array of willing local w...
Game of Thrones returns to our screens at the end of this month, and I can’t bloody wait. Yes, there’s fantastically twisting plot lines and ...
With Thomas Pynchon's latest work set to tackle one of the most controversial events in history, how can authors incorporate tragedy without verg...
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is a great example of a new trend that takes children's stories and adapts them to the big screen. Here's a coup...
Jonathon Rendall was famous for burning the candle at both ends, and More 4's re-run of this brilliant mini series will show you just why the rec...
Irish Times Journalist Keith Duggan introduces us to the world of big wave surfing off the west coast of Ireland in his new book. Powerful and descriptive, it's well worth picking up.
As well as being a great author, the late Charles Bukowski was also a spoken word poet with rhymes as unorthodox as...
Swear Down is the new novel by acclaimed author Russ Litten. It incorporates an investigation into a murder in East...
So the Harry Potter covers have been given an official facelift. The thing is, devoted fans have been doing this fo...
Cloud Atlas the book is has a story spans that 6 different stories, all in different historical eras and genres. Th...
He might be best known for indie singalongs of the highest order, but the former...
Oh, you're making a joke about gravy miners are you? How very fucking droll...
Spurn Point is a little-known wonder of the British Isles; a slice of paradise t...
Some TV characters are blessed with charm and good looks, some roll off lines of...
This year the White House comes under threat twice. First in Antoine Fuqua’s O...
Why spend your money on expensive sex toys when you can have a great time using ...
Look, I'm glad I've shifted the blubber but that was the easy part. Now I can't ...
American indie supergroup The Postal Service lulled Brixton Academy into an elec...
'Organic' is touted as being better for the environment and your health, but rar...
The former graffiti artist opens Fire Sale this week, an exhibition of his artwo...
Everyone deserves to watch a grand prix from a private yacht at least once in th...
Yesterday's events were horrific, but don't be part of the problem with EDL and ...
America has The Mindy Project, Girls and 30 Rock, whilst we have the utter trash...
You know what really winds me up? Rich children who believe that they are creati...
The late Ray Manzarek of 'The Doors' fame speaks to Stephen Daultrey along side ...
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How hard can buying food and selling it to the public be? Very hard...
Booze, bets, bruisers and crap horses, just another day at the races.