An evocative debut novel by Irish writer Elaine Garvey, The Wardrobe Department is set in the seemingly glitzy world of West End theatre in 2002. However, behind the glamorous façade it’s a d…

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Lauren Mackenzie reads Free Love from Issue Twelve of The Lonely Crowd. The Lonely Crowd · Winter Readings: ‘Free Love’ by Lauren Mackenzie Image by Jo Mazelis.

*THIS EVENT IS FULLY BOOKED. TO ADD YOUR NAME TO THE WAITING LIST PLEASE EMAIL SHOP@BOOKSUPSTAIRS.IE WITH YOUR FULL NAME* The Rick O’Shea Book Club presents: Writehawks at Books Upstairs Join broadcas...

Irish Film and Television Academy awards: Kneecap lands 17 nominations while Small Things Like These bags 10. In TV, Searing tale of the Troubles Say Nothing and popular comedy-drama Bad Sisters top TV list

I’m actually quite surprised at the amount of novel competitions on the go at the moment. While a good number have yet to confirm their details for this year, there’s certainly plenty h…

Hello and welcome to That Time of Year. Christmas decorations have been stuffed away, tins of Cadbury Heroes have added inches to your hips and pine needles have been scattered to the four corners …

It was wormed into her from the nest this sense of living close together of ‘come in out of that and lie down’ at the hearth where the anthracite glows. Till bedtime and the dark of the stair, the ...

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Short stories have a distinctive place in the modern Irish literary tradition. Many of our best writers, both in English and Irish, have been practitioners of the form. The winner of our short story c...