The Comets by Eoin McNamee: Enlightenment in darkness
The title of this collection makes sense as many characters follow strange orbits
By NJ McGarrigle
Billion Dollar Baby: How national children’s hospital became a multibillion-euro project
Paul Cullen’s book examines the planning mistakes, disputes and spiralling costs behind a hospital that was once expected to open in 2011
By Andrew Lynch
New poetry by Lorna Shaughnessy; Philip McDonagh; Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh; and Padraig Regan
Ben Barnes: ‘I would extend the basic income scheme to all professionally trained working artists’
Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus: A novel that starts with great promise but falls short
Sinéad Gibney on The Fall of The West by Owen Jones: ‘We all need to read this book’
The Song of Stork and Dromedary: the story of the Brontës reimagined
Elif Shafak: ‘This is the age of anger, anxiety, and AI’
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The Silence of October by Sharon Guard: Black humour mixes with mystery and foreboding
By Céire Sadlier
Sci-fi and fantasy: Go with confidence into Grace Curtis’s cleverly conceived otherworld
By Declan Burke
Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be available in UK over her support for Palestine Action
By Martin Doyle
Brian Cowen: Anatomy of a Taoiseach - A ‘political life’ with little on the life of the politician
By Breandán Mac Suibhne
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