Kevin Sweeney

What is the name of the popular US series of End Times-themed Christian novels?

A seasonal Yuletide literary quiz that doesn’t include a Christmas Carol question

To celebrate Halloween, a special quiz on literature creepy/kooky/mysterious/spooky

The weekly challenge: 10 questions to test your literary knowledge

The weekly challenge: 10 questions to test your literary knowledge

Covid-19: As Ireland went into lockdown, Sean Brady flew to a country of 1.3bn people

My locked-down teenagers are embracing the comfort TV of their childhoods

The Four Elements, Brooklyn Heights, In the Garden of Beasts, Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse, Gealach

Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel Peter L Winkler The Robson Press, £12.99

Zadie Smith’s NW, John Connolly’s The Wrath of Angels, Louise Penny’s The Beautiful Mystery

Our pick of the latest releases

Greta Garbo: Divine Star, Dion Boucicault: Irish Identity on Stage, Irish and English: Essays on the Irish Linguistic and Cultural Frontier, 1600-1900

The Time Has Come: Ger McDonnell – His Life and Death on K2, Carole King’s A Natural Woman: A Memoir, Wilkie Collins

The Folded Earth, Ten Stories About Smoking, A Widow’s Story, Nowhere to Run, That Unearthly Valley: A Donegal Childhood

What It Was, Waiting for Sunrise, The Third Day