Unmasking Samantha Cookes: Superb exposé of a spiralling conwoman
Bradley writes brilliantly, setting out the facts with the poise of a forensic investigator and the pacing of a thriller writer
By John Walshe
Novelist Niamh Campbell: ‘The Dublin of 2015 was so full of optimism. Bit by bit it got harder to stay’
Summer YA reading: Romeo and Juliet meet at a death resort while teenagers take over the world
Whistler by Ann Patchett: a lesser-told love story between step-parents and stepchildren
Patrick Freyne: The true and wonderful weirdness of Dubliners always surfaces
Summer reading hitlist: New novels, classics and nonfiction books recommended by writers
Land review: Breathtaking epic marks Maggie O’Farrell as a daring chronicler of 19th century Ireland
Dooneen: In Keith Ridgway’s retrofuturistic Dublin, the housing crisis plays out with deadly consequences
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POETRY
Debut novelist Jessamine O’Connor: ‘Trying fiction was really refreshing. I have been doing poetry for 20 years’
By Martin Doyle
First of December of Karen Jennings: A quietly devastating novel about slavery’s undoing
By Molara Wood
Stefan Al’s spirited account of what humans have got right and wrong when making homes
By Richard Horan
What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton: A resonant take on the distance between reality and illusion
By Colm McKenna
Rough Edges by Natasha Carthew: Irish echoes in Cornish writer’s account of Britain’s coast
By Nicholas Allen
Jemimah Wei’s The Original Daughter: Masterful in depiction of pettiness and codependency
By Maya Kulukundis
Make Strange by Niamh Campbell: Haunting portrayal of maternal anxiety nested in an unnerving premise
By John Boyne
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