Declan Burke

Reviews: Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis; The Universe Delivers the Enemy You Need by Adam Marek; City of Stardust by Georgia Summers; In the Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan; and Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde

Also reviewed: Where They Lie by Claire Coughlan; Paper Cage by Tom Baragwanath; Anna O by Matthew Blake; and Owning Up by George Pelecanos

From psychological thrillers to gothic mysteries and everything in between

New reads from Julianne Pachico, Daniel J Mooney, Alice McIlroy, Dara Kavanagh and Karel Čapek

The Fake Wife; Deep Dark Blue; Deadly Game; Body of Truth; and Resurrection Walk

From Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis to Herbie Hancock and Brad Mehldau, here’s a quick fandango through jazz’s hall of fame

New novels by Mick Herron, Stella Blómkvist, Stephen King, Victoria Selman and Richard Osman

Fantasy and science fiction books from John Connolly, Jonathan Strahan, RJ Barker, David Connor and Garth Nix

New books from Denise Mina, Rachel Hawkins, Stéphane Breitwieser, Rebecca F Kuang and Kevin Powers

This novel is in part a satire on, and a polemic against, those who exploit the deaths of young women for financial gain

Davis-Goff is one of the leading pioneers of Irish dystopian fiction, which is becoming a real force

Nilanajana Roy’s Black River, Let Me In by Claire McGowan; Jake Lamar’s Viper’s Dream, The Kingdoms of Savannah and The End of Us

Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane; Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater; The Wintering Place by Kevin McCarthy; Cast a Cold Eye by Robbie Morrison; and The Lock-Up by John Banville

Takes from Anne Rice, Norman Mailer, Kahlil Gibran, Robert Graves, Philip Pullman and more Jesus as, variously, divine, mortal and conflicted

As Dublin International Film Festival 2023 arrives, and with the Oscars less than a month away, we press play on some remarkable soundtracks