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RTÉ KIDS Book Club: Great reads about discoveries and inventions

The first RTÉ KIDS Book Club of 2026, with thanks to Children's Books Ireland, is here!

5 November 2025; Children’s Books Ireland Event, Children’s Books Ireland – Every Child A Reader event Dublin, Karen Harte and Shane Hegarty, Champion of Reading with pupils in the Library, Scoil Chronáin, St. Cronan's school, Swords, Dublin. Picture cred

5 ways to be a children's books champion in 2026

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America at Home - the architecture and politics of the US Embassy

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The cartographers who found the shape of Ireland

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First Fortnight: Everybody is a poem - Jan Brierton has a word

First Fortnight

The best Irish books of 2025

David Walliams

Walliams denies allegations of inappropriate behaviour

An inmate reads a book in the library of the special Violent Inmates Unit at the Fleury-Merogis prison, some 30 kms south of Paris, on June 21, 2023. Fleury-Merogis houses a "Unite pour Detenus Violents" (UDV - Violent Inmates Unit), one of ten across Fra

The French book prize where the winner is selected by prisoners

New Irish Writing: Before the Leaves Fall by Clare O'Dea

Joanna Trollope

Bestselling author Joanna Trollope has died aged 82

Joseph O'Connor pictured with his award

'The Ghosts of Rome' named An Post Irish Book of the Year

Sophie Kinsella appears at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 14 August, 2016

Sophie Kinsella, author, dies aged 55

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Sunday Miscellany: Meeting the Poet, by Oliver Sears

Sunday Miscellany

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Poet Tom Paulin wins 2025 PEN Heaney Prize

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Keith Donald, pictured on the cover of his memoir Music & Mayhem

Book Of The Week: Musician Keith Donald's diaries from the edge

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Book Of The Week: The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine

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Book Of The Week: Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way by Elaine Feeney

Book Of The Week: Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way by Elaine Feeney

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Our Song - author Anna Carey (Pic: Brid O'Donovan)

Book Of The Week: Our Song by Anna Carey

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The Emperor Of Gladness - author Ocean Vuong (Pic: Getty)

Book Of The Week: The Emperor Of Gladness by Ocean Vuong

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Book Of The Week: Open, Heaven by Sean Hewitt

Book Of The Week: Open, Heaven by Sean Hewitt

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Book Of The Week: Show Don't Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld

Book Of The Week: Show Don't Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld

Roisin O'Donnell (Pic: Ruth Medjber)

Book Of The Week: Nesting by Roisin O'Donnell

Book Of The Week

Roddy Doyle reurns to his character Paula Spencer in his new book

How Roddy Doyle beat the sequel slump with Paula Spencer's return

Book Of The Week: The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes

Book Of The Week: The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes

Book Of The Week: Openings by Lucy Caldwell

Book Of The Week: Openings by Lucy Caldwell

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Gerald Boland, as pictured on the cover of Stephen Kelly's new biography

Book Of The Week: David McCullagh on the life of Gerald Boland

New Writing

Oddbody by Rose Keating - read an extract

Oddbody is a collection of ten bold and unsettling short stories that confront themes of desire, fear and shame

The Language of Remembering by Patrick Holloway - read an extract

Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way by Elaine Feeney - read an extract

To Avenge A Dead Glacier by Shane Tivenan - read an extract

To Avenge A Dead Glacier by Shane Tivenan - read an extract

Book Club

Book Club - your one-stop bluffer's guide to RTÉ's new series

Book Club - your one-stop bluffer's guide to RTÉ's new series

Missing Book Club? Don't worry, we've got more recommended reads

Missing Book Club? Don't worry, we've got more recommended reads

Prophet Song - author Paul Lynch

Book Club: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Book Club: Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? - author Séamas O'Reilly

Book Club: Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? by Séamas O'Reilly

Soldier Sailor - author Claire Kilroy

Book Club: Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy

The Fraud - author Zadie Smith

Book Club: The Fraud by Zadie Smith

The Bee Sting - author Paul Murray

Book Club: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

The Country Girls - author Edna O'Brien

Book Club: The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien