Martin Doyle

Martin Doyle

Books Editor

Martin Doyle is Books Editor of The Irish Times.

The Booker Prize boost: ‘It certainly changed the way people look at me’

Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright and Irish booksellers on the real difference the prestigious award makes as two Irish writers hit shortlist

Daniel Mason: ‘The more time I spend in the woods, the more in awe I am at the richness of the natural world’

Mason discusses his new novel North Woods, his love of the natural world and being a practising physician

Booker Prize 2023: Irish authors Paul Murray and Paul Lynch make shortlist

Sarah Bernstein, Jonathan Escoffery, Paul Harding  and Chetna Maroo also in for £50,000 award

Gutter Bookshop changes hands; Irish on Edge Hill prize shortlist; Dublin Book Festival launched

Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages and a wrap of the latest news

Mick Herron: the joyous juxtaposition of disgraced spies and cranky office politics

The auther of the award-winning Slough House series says he doesn’t dream about high-powered dinner parties but prefers the idea of a lock-in somewhere, with all writers welcome

Irish Book Week; Dubray at 50; Great Reads Awards; Murder One; Dublin Festival of History

Books newsletter: a preview of tomorrow’s pages and a wrap of the latest literary news

Leontia Flynn: I need to write or nothing makes sense

Poet who lectures at Queen’s University Belfast reflects on her new collection Taking Liberties, and her career

BBC Short Story Award shortlist revealed; festivals in Dalkey, Dublin, Bere Island and Clifden

A preview of tomorrow’s books pages and a roundup of the latest literary news

Claire Keegan: ‘I don’t come from a close family. We are not close at all’

So Late in the Day, the author’s quietly devastating new story, draws on the misogyny and meanness of the Ireland she grew up in

Karin Smirnoff: ‘Taking on Stieg Larsson’s characters and the world surrounding them is a challenge’

The Swedish writer on Nordic noir and publishing her first novel aged 53

Little Island is first Irish publisher to have Kirkus Prize finalist; Moses McKenzie wins Hawthornden Prize

Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages and a wrap of the latest literary news

‘What a joy to read’: Ottessa Moshfegh on this year’s Moth Short Story Prize winner

This year’s judge on winner Jude Whiley; Paul Currion (second prize) and Natalie Bevilacqua (third prize)

Linwood Barclay: ‘My father’s wallet inspired a plot point’

Author’s latest thriller, The Lie Maker, takes a new angle on a witness protection story

Alice Winn wins Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize; Danielle Jawando awarded YA Book Prize

Books newsletter: a summary of the latest literary news and a preview of tomorrow’s pages

Andrea Carter: ‘I’m a fan of the golden age of crime fiction, so I tend to write in that style’

The author on her legal background, writing advice and why the Inishowen peninsula is so special