Dead Shot review – IRA man and British soldier lock horns in Troubles revenge drama
There’s a crunchy veracity to the script for this evocative story of two men on opposing sides of the Northern Ireland conflict
October 2019
Book clinic
Book clinic: can you recommend enjoyable historical fiction?
From Sarah Dunant’s eye for detail to Peter Ackroyd’s ear for period dialogue, fiction anchored in the past varies in character
August 2019
Autumn arts preview 2019
Ronan Bennett: ‘Top Boy was special to me... I poured it all into the scripts’
'The show needed to come back': how Drake rescued the druglords of Top Boy
February 2009
1000 novels everyone must read
The ones that got away: State of the Nation
Last month we ran a series of 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read - which of your all-time favourite state of the nation novels did we miss?
October 2007
The controversialist
A life in writing: Ronan Bennett, who grew up a republican activist in Northern Ireland, has never lost the urge to speak out politically. His latest novel is about chess and terrorism.
September 2007
An honourable heir to Joseph Conrad
Ronan Bennett's Zugzwang, first serialised in The Observer, offers an intense analysis of life under the tsars, says Nick Greenslade.
