Books

Ever wonder just how a book cover gets designed? This video will give you a good idea — and some sense of all the effort that’s involved.

Best-selling author Maeve Binchy specializes in heartwarming stories about life in small-town Ireland. Here she shares with us her favourite books to get lost in over the summer holidays.

Kate and Zoe are world-class athletes on track for the 2012 Olympics. Despite endless head-to-head competitions for titles, prize money, coaching—even men—and with totally different personalities (Kate's a kindly, devoted mom, Zoe's aggressive and promiscuous), they've become fast friends.

When this Irish author isn’t writing herself, here are the books she’s looking forward to reading and would recommend to others

In this new novel from Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), estranged brother and sister Richard and Angela and their families meet for a week at an isolated Welsh vacation rental and inevitably collide.