‘What are you doing in the pub on your own then?’ A brush with scandal at Sackville Place
Maggie Armstrong has been shortlisted at the Irish Book Awards for Short Story of the Year and Newcomer of the Year
By Maggie Armstrong
Groundwater by Thomas McMullan: Unsettling and seductive
Goliath’s Curse: Powerful if uneven portrait of societal collapse sings the praises of Irish Citizens’ Assembly
The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey: Two sides of the same story
Sinister experiments and girl-power cults feature in August’s young adult titles
Why Irish romance fiction deserves its happily ever after
Poem of the Week: My Mother at the Window
Discriminations by AC Grayling: A simple take on the culture wars
SHORT STORIES
POETRY
Gratefully and Affectionately. Mary Lavin and the New Yorker: A rich trove of insights
By Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
Unbroken: Secrets, Lies and Enduring Love - a couple’s riveting account through the UK justice system
By Pat Carty
‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’ by Mary Beth Norton: A dive into 1690s messy relationships
By John Gallagher
Author Joseph Birchall: ‘Crime fiction can bring us something we don’t often see in reality - justice’
By Martin Doyle
Beating Time: the Story of the Irish Bodhrán by Fintan Vallely – a forensic examination of a much-neglected instrument
By Siobhán Long
The World of the Cold War by Vladislav Zubok: Three decades on, echoes remain in today’s turbulent world
By Seamus Martin