The Boundless River. Stories from the Realm of the Rhine: Exploring a living entity
‘The Rhine, like all rivers, consists not only of the water flowing between its banks but of every part of its vast drainage basin’
By Neil Hegarty
The Language of Architectural Classicism by Edward McParland: A masterpiece of discovery
Lemony Snicket: And Then? And Then? What Else?: A Writer’s Life by Daniel Handler - A thoughtful and eloquent celebration of story
The Origin of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey: Charting the intriguing backstory of the survey’s birth in 1824
The End of Drum Time: Stunning novel of love affair set in 19th-century Lapland
Ferdia Lennon wins Waterstones prize
Fiction in translation: works from Palestine, Catalonia, France, Germany and Sweden
Donald Trump told nephew to let his disabled son die, book says
Keanu Reeves: ‘Maybe I have father issues and mother issues. And maybe I think about death’
By Alexandra Alter
Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good by Eley Williams: Moderate to good, occasionally great
By Doug Battersby
Irish First Ladies and First Gentlemen, 1919-2011 by Bernadette Whelan: All the presidents’ spouses
By Conor Brady
Ireland out of England: The learned forgetting and remembering of a unionist Brexiteer
By Brendan O’Leary
Anne Applebaum: ‘Trump is a transactional person whose interest is in himself... It’s why he is more dangerous’
By Mark Paul