Neither Confirm Nor Deny by John Ware: Revelations about Britain’s morally compromised ‘dirty war’
The book about Troubles agents raises troubling questions around the rationale for espionage
By Harry Higgins
Alan Titley: the most important prose writer in Irish since Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Killing and destruction in Gaza: new book examines Israel’s campaign and the enablers
The People’s Emperor by Edward Shawcross: Entertaining and thoroughly researched biography
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Translated literature: From a harsh and hilarious epic set in Apachería to a portrait of Toronto
Shari Lapena: ‘I’ve always read and loved thrillers, but I didn’t think I could write one’
The Common Good Economy: An elegant examination of the direction we want states to sail in
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A Bitter Harvest: A Derry man’s family search for his ‘British state-sponsored’ killer
By NJ McGarrigle
It Will Come Back to You by Sigrid Nunez: Unforgettable short stories from the author of The Friend
By Colm McKenna
Trouble Was by Charlotte Edwardes: Toughness of toxic families told with great tenderness
By Helen Cullen
A brilliant book of fiction keeps breathing somewhere in the mind long after you close it
By Patrick Holloway
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