Beyond books: Christmas gifts for the literature lover in your life
Sometimes the hardest thing to buy for a bookworm is a regular novel, biography or history book. Here's a selection of bookish gift ideas that go beyond the norm
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan: The exhausting life of a courier
‘Christmas is never complete unless I re-read it’: Irish bookworms’ recommendations
The Hollywood History of Art: cinema’s ‘tortured artist’ myth has real-world impact
Translated fiction: Explorations of trauma, loss, exile and memory
Nesting author Roisín O’Donnell: ‘At points I lost my nerve - nobody wants to read a book about coercive control’
Books in brief – Jungle Days: Supporting Celtic in the 1980s; Dark Cloud Over Muckish; Tradecraft: Writers on John le Carré
The Art of Status; Leonardo Da Vinci; Who Owns Beauty? - Art books about plundering dilemmas and fabricated back stories
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POETRY
Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy: Artful portrait of youthfulness and beauty as women’s only sources of power
By Maija Makela
Gráinne O’Brien: ‘I was anxious about things most authors wouldn’t even dream could happen’
By Martin Doyle
Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep by David Stipp: An engaging and entertaining exploration of evolution
By Andrew Lynch
The Big Payback: The Case for Reparations for Slavery – an accessible examination of the legacy of the slave trade
By John Walshe
After Oscar: the Legacy of a Scandal by Merlin Holland – A dramatic and engaging narrative
By Noreen Doody
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