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Galway readers have shown that they prefer a more classical taste in literature by choosing To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Book Thief by Markus Zusak as their favourite books, in a survey undertaken to mark the 125th birthday of bookseller Easons.

Renowned Irish author John Boyne will be reading extracts from his new book this weekend in Mullingar.

Along with providing ten days of superb entertainment for all the family, this year’s arts festival which has recently drawn to a close, has also lent a hand in boosting the local economy.

The 37th Kilkenny Arts Festival programme is set to entice thousands of people to the city over the next 10 days with a line-up that will challenge all of the senses.

Well, you win some and you lose some. That is the way life goes. Unfortunately it is no different in the world of cinematic glory, you have to take the good with the bad, and as cinema reviewer for the Galway Advertiser I have seen it all. So here is my list for the best, the worst, and the most overrated and underappreciated films of 2008.

John Boyne, the author of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, and Clare Kilroy, author of All Summer, will be in Dubray Books, Shop Street, on Tuesday next July 21 at 6pm.

THE CLIFDEN Community Arts Week returns from Thursday September 17 to Sunday 27 and will feature readings from such major Irish poets as Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley.

Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney will read as part of this year’s Clifden Arts Festival.

JOHN BOYNE, the author of the international best-seller The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, will read at the 32nd Clifden Community Arts Festival.