Like an ancient Rapunzel sequestered in a tower, Roseanne Clear McNulty is slowly measuring out her remaining days. At 100 years old, maybe more, she is a ruined beauty locked away in a moldering ...

The secret advice and prophecies Jesus gave his brother, James. It’s bound to be explosive stuff. But the two books of the Apocalypse of James were rejected when the Emperor Constantine instructed his ...

This month World Book Club is celebrating its 15th birthday and has come to where it all began – in September 2002 - The Edinburgh Book Festival, to talk to Irish literary superstar Sebastian Barry ...

A powerful portrait of a woman fighting to hold on to her truth while history tries to erase her. The story moves between ...

Sebastian Barry's new novel The Secret Scripture (Faber, May), is related in two voices. The first is that of Roseanne McNulty, a 100-year-old resident of a mental hospital in Roscommon, still ...

Jim Sheridan returns to his Irish roots after an American sabbatical with the likes of Brothers and the previous Get Rich Or Die Tryin’. In his first film in his homeland since 1998’s The Boxer (has ...

December's Bookclub author is Sebastian Barry. Well known as a successful dramatist and novelist, his literary career became stellar when he won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year Award with this month's ...