Alison Flood: Is this the end of misery memoirs?
Inspired by a much-translated 9th-century Irish lyric, The Blackbird at Belfast Lough, the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry is putting on an exhibition of specially-commissioned depictions of its emblem, the blackbird

Terry Sanderson: Free expression is being stymied by the aggressive tactics of a Christian campaign group
Peter Matthiesson's single-volume edition of three 90s novels wins prestigious US prize

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Terry Sanderson: From bookshops to art galleries, free expression is being stymied by the aggressive tactics of Christian campaign group
