The Celtic World: A History – Were they superstitious, warlike hotheads as often depicted?
John Waddell takes the reader on a deeply personal tour and makes for the perfect guide
By Chris Doyle
Opening Night by Sara Baume: Deep insights into her own psyche, with respect for the creative process
Drunken Driving by Martina Evans: Sonnets from a prison
Summer YA reads: from a Snow White who’d prefer not to to same-sex love-love on the tennis court
Author Faith Hogan: ‘The thing I truly believe in life is that there is no one like your own sister’
Nuala O’Faolain: Are You Somebody? Honesty that’s compelling and at times unsettling
A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of the Movies – big screen questions
The German-Russian Century by Stefan Creuzberger: Impressive account of an age-old enmity
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The 21st-Century Brain by Hannah Critchlow: How to maintain mental acuity in this digital era
By Andrew Lynch
A Better Locksmith by Jane Coyle: Chronicle of an astonishingly fecund time in the theatre of Northern Ireland
By Ben Barnes
Deborah Lutz’s fresh biography of Emily Brontë is a worthy celebration of a unique author
By Jenny McAuley
Northern reading lights: There’s a real children’s books community out there to discover
By Kelly McCaughrain
Best new children’s books: From laugh-out-loud ghost stories to football-themed fables
By Sara Keating
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