Booksellers’ favourite books to give for Christmas 2021Some of Ireland’s independent booksellers recommend their best reads for ChristmasMon Nov 29 2021 - 05:00
Best books for Christmas 2021: Fiction, biography, sport and children’s booksSomething for everyone from sport fans and literary types to politics nerds in this listSat Nov 27 2021 - 06:00
Aisling and the City: Primark meets Prada in the Big AppleBook review: There’s plenty of laughter – and familiarity – in Emer McLysaght’s and Sarah Breen’s latest book in the seriesSat Nov 13 2021 - 06:00
Putting the Rabbit in the Hat by Brian Cox: ticking the boxesActor has less panache as a writer but Succession fever will lure fans to his bookFri Nov 12 2021 - 06:00
The Ghostlights by Gráinne Murphy: A rural Irish family on the edgeThe author’s second novel concerns life, death, religion and control – or the lack of itSat Sep 25 2021 - 06:00
Sarah Gilmartin: ‘There’s a weight of expectation that my book will be well received’The critic-turned-author on her debut novel, coping with rejection and life as a freelancerThu Sep 16 2021 - 06:00
20 gripping books: Fiction and non-fiction to read this summerWe round up the best books so you will not be stuck for a great read as days get longerSat Jun 5 2021 - 06:00
Trouble: Lyricism and cynicism bring a strange sort of wisdomBook review: It is hard not to be impressed by these stories from Philip Ó CeallaighWed Jun 2 2021 - 06:00
Before My Actual Heart Breaks: A promising but flawed Troubles taleThere is much to admire in Tish Delaney’s debut novel but it ultimately fails to convinceSat Feb 27 2021 - 06:00
First of all: Irish writers on their debut novels coming out in 2021From Louise Nealon’s coming-of-age tale to Una Mannion’s American nightmareSat Jan 30 2021 - 06:00
Interior Chinatown: Clever, inventive dissection of traps faced by Asian AmericansBook review: Charles Yu’s novel looks at how the US’s story excludes large swathes of peopleFri Jan 29 2021 - 06:00
Daddy by Emma Cline: Looking at the melancholy of modernityBook review: Short-story collection from writer of deservedly-hyped novel, The GirlsWed Dec 16 2020 - 06:00
Ask the Experts: Christmas books 2020There’s a book here to suit just about everyone on your Christmas listMon Dec 7 2020 - 05:00
Best books for Christmas 2020: Fiction, biography, sport and kids’ booksThere’s something for sport nuts, crime fanatics, literary fans and children in this listSat Nov 28 2020 - 06:00
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Ellen: testing the reviewer’s faithBook review: Coyne does things her own way and doesn’t give a blessed damnMon Nov 9 2020 - 06:00
Inside Story by Martin Amis: An arrogant and long-winded messMartin Amis trips over his own cleverness in irksome and largely autobiographical workWed Oct 28 2020 - 06:00
Lot: Making the city sing with sharp lyricismBook Review: Bryan Washington’s short story collection focuses on the lives of marginalised citizensWed Aug 26 2020 - 06:00
Life, death and the secrets that lie betweenPoet Elaine Feeney had a brush with her own mortality before writing her much-anticipated debut novelSat Aug 15 2020 - 06:00
Memorial Drive – A Daughter’s Memoir: Cleverly crafted, insightful and movingBook review: former US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey comes to terms with the murder of her motherWed Aug 12 2020 - 06:00
Supporting Cast by Kit de Waal: The bit parts have their dayThe novelist fleshes out minor characters from previous works in a collection of storiesMon Aug 3 2020 - 06:00
Unfiltered amusingly delves into Irish influencers and mummy bloggersSophie White’s novel uses light humour and farce to portray the whirl of social mediaTue Jun 16 2020 - 06:00
The King of Warsaw: A cinematic and thoughtful thrillerSzczepan Twardoch’s tale of anti-Semitic violence in prewar Poland is a must-readMon May 25 2020 - 06:00
I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: The long trail of memoryBook review: Esther Safran Foer’s moving memoir explores her family’s tragic historyFri Apr 24 2020 - 06:00
A Sabbatical in Leipzig: Slow, affecting and beautifulBook review: Reading Adrian Duncan’s second book is like moving through a contemporary art exhibitionWed Apr 15 2020 - 06:00
Being a woman in business, I’ve had to ‘pitch to the boys club’Nuw app enbles users to share clothes, offering a sustainable alternative to fast fashionMon Mar 16 2020 - 06:00
Cathy Sweeney: ‘I spent so many years in a desperate struggle to do things right’Teacher-turned-author on her debut short story collection and why she has given up on trying to be ‘normal’Wed Mar 11 2020 - 06:00
Sex and Lies review: testimonies from women in MoroccoLeila Slimani bravely portrays accounts of extra-marital sex punishable by lawSun Feb 23 2020 - 06:00
House of Trelawney: Madcap story of the whims of the wealthyBook review: Hannah Rothschild has created a clever and enjoyable story exploring the links between old and new moneySat Feb 8 2020 - 06:00
Grown Ups: the familiar magic of Marian KeyesBook review: Deep understanding of human frailty infuses smart, effortless readTue Feb 4 2020 - 06:00
Eoin Colfer: ‘Humour defines me ... I’m obsessed with it’The Artemis Fowl creator on the long-awaited film – and the publication of his 43rd bookSat Feb 1 2020 - 06:00
American Dirt: tight plot about Mexican border and migrantsJeanine Cummins’s very important novel places you at the heart of human terrorWed Jan 22 2020 - 06:00
New Irish authors to watch out for in 2020It’s shaping up to be a strong year for new writingThu Jan 9 2020 - 06:00
There There: Powerful debut examines life as a Native AmericanBook Review: Tommy Orange uses disparate narratives to counter the stereotypesThu Jan 9 2020 - 06:00
Books preview 2020: Our vision for the year aheadWhat to look out for in Irish and international fiction, non-fiction and poetrySat Dec 28 2019 - 06:00
Where the Crawdads Sing: a tale whose core is motherhoodDelia Owens’s best-selling novel revolves around love and a murder mysteryTue Dec 17 2019 - 06:00
Blindboy’s new book is a bestseller – but I don’t get itBoulevard Wren and Other Stories: Too often these stories drift and swaySun Nov 24 2019 - 06:00
The book I want for Christmas: Paschal Donohoe, Alison Spittle, Joseph O’Connor and moreSeven well known readers and writers share the books they'll be giving and getting this ChristmasThu Nov 21 2019 - 05:00
Collected Stories by Elizabeth Bowen: Literature to be read again and againBook review: Short stories from yesteryear are cunning and illuminatingTue Nov 19 2019 - 06:00
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas: Heartbreaking and hilariousBook review: Adam Kay is back with more fascinating true stories from hospitalSat Oct 26 2019 - 06:00
We Are The Weather: we know and care about the planet but still refuse to actJonathan Safran Foer simultaneously tries to bring us out of the present moment and back into itThu Oct 24 2019 - 06:00
Republic of Shame: Read this book nowBook review: Caelainn Hogan gives voice to the survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homesSun Sep 29 2019 - 06:00
Talking to Strangers: Malcolm Gladwell at his bestBook Review: New Yorker writer takes a fire poker to our fixed set of assumptions by examining why society is so polarised and what we can do about itMon Sep 16 2019 - 06:00
Inland by Téa Obreht just might be the literary event of 2019Book review: I disliked this on first read, then was absolutely blown awayWed Aug 21 2019 - 06:00
How to Forget: Kate Mulgrew achingly details her parents’ sufferingBook review: The Star Trek actor spares nothing in this memoir about caring for her parentsWed Aug 7 2019 - 06:00
The Porpoise review: A chilling story ventures into dangerous landsMark Haddon’s new novel is a reworking of a lesser-known Shakespeare playSat May 11 2019 - 06:00
Being Various review: Irish life from many anglesNew collection of short stories features everything from crime fiction to young adult, magical realism and new modernismSat May 4 2019 - 06:00
How to Fail review: true stories told with humilityPodcaster and novelist Elizabeth Day’s failure-filled book is gloriously life-affirmingSat Apr 6 2019 - 06:00
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession: A simple pleasureThis debut is decidedly not woke and not cool but its message about life is worth heedingSat Mar 23 2019 - 00:00
Charlie Savage review: Roddy Doyle is fluent in north-DublineseRoddy Doyle’s character sketches use humour that is never mocking, never overstatedSat Mar 16 2019 - 06:00
Leonard and Hungry Paul review: Dorks in a time of pithy millennialsIt’s been called ‘up-lit’ but Rónán Hession’s debut is more geekily nuanced than thatSat Mar 2 2019 - 06:00