Children’s books: Boredom busters
A selection for young readers from Michelle Beech, Hollie Hughes, Laura Dockrill, Jarvis and Judge, Becky Baines and Jane Wilsher
By Sara Keating
Two Irish writers on BBC National Short Story Award shortlist
The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands – A voyage of discovery
Nicole Flattery awarded Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
Prophets, Profits, Coaches and Kings by Jared Diamond: How many leaders pass the Hamlet test?
The Disappearers by Marlon James: A horrifying and exhilarating portrayal of men queer and straight
The Renovation by Kenan Orhan: Important and funny but it doesn’t quite land
How the sexual problems of a KGB double agent may have stopped the cold war from going nuclear
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POETRY
Setting the Land Free: Visions of a Rewilded Ireland – an urgent manifesto for living with nature
By Neil Hegarty
A stunning novel by T Geronimo Johnson is among this month’s best new crime fiction
By Brian Cliff and Elizabeth Mannion
Elizabeth Wassell Montague: ‘My new novel was partly inspired by the mystery of eating disorders’
By Martin Doyle
Sebastian Barry: ‘My mother was interesting, extravagant. It was difficult to be a child of such a person’
By Martin Doyle
For the Dead Remember: The Life of MR James by Darryl Jones – Horror upon horror, from public school to the page
By John Connolly
Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason: A beguiling novel that is so much more than the sum of its parts
By Helen Cullen
Choosing the Struggle by Martina Anderson: A fascinating, shocking and frank narrative on her work as a politician
By Stephen Walker
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