March’s best young adult fiction: deeply satisfying reads
Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai; I Am the Cage by Allison Sweet Grant; Every Borrowed Beat by Erin Stewart; Pieces of Us by Stewart Foster; and Stealing Happy by Brian Conaghan
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: No 25 to No 1
Unravelling an Irish-American family mystery: my great-grandfather arrived in the US in 1922, on the run as an IRA man
Author Paul McVeigh: ‘In Belfast, you go on a bad date and after that you bump into them every time you go out’
A Room Above the Shop by Anthony Shapland: A potent work above frustrating love that dispels initial scepticism
Count Me Out by Bob Quinn: The real nuggets are in the personal stories of this important film-maker
The 100 best Irish books of the 21st century: how we made the list and what it says about the state of Irish fiction
Poem of the Week: Barking at the Hearse
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A House for Miss Pauline by Diana McCaulay: A beautiful, poetic novel about an ageing ganja farmer in Jamaica
By Julia Kelly
Rot: A History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X Scanlan - Interesting and new takes, and much to debate
By Breandán Mac Suibhne
The Sorrow and the Loss by Martin Dillon: Women whose lives were blighted by the Troubles
By Kevin Rafter
Flesh by David Szalay: Compulsively readable with more twists than the road to west Cork
By John Boyne
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Entertaining and compassionate, with gorgeous touches of life
By Kevin Power
