A sneak preview of next Saturday’s book reviews in The Irish Times

On the fiction front this week, Declan Burke, whose latest novel is The Lost and the Blind, reviews World Gone By by Dennis Lehane, the last of the trilogy that began with Any Given Day.

Christina Hunt Mahony, a research fellow in the School of English, TCD, reviews The Lives of Women by Christine Dwyer Hickey.

Anna Carey, author of the Rebecca series, reviews Villa America by Liza Klaussmann. Read Arminta Wallace's interview with the author here.

Author Éilís Ní Dhuibhne reviews Dermot Bolger's Tanglewood, his take on the boom and bust.

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Sarah Gilmartin reviews My Buried Life by Doreen Finn.

Eileen Battersby reviews My Father's Dreams by Slovenian writer Evald Flisar, translated by Evald Flisar and Alan McConnell-Duff.

In non-fiction, Frank MacGabhann reviews the No 1 bestseller Nowhere's Child by Kari Rosvall and Naomi Linehan. Linehan's essay about their book was one of the most read on irishtimes.com last week.

Rob Doyle, author of Here Are the Young Men, reviews The Framing of Harry Gleeson by Kieran Fagan.

Irish Times cookery writer Domini Kemp reviews A Taste of Love by one of her predecessors, Theodora Fitzgibbon.

In poetry, John McAuliffe reviews two posthumous collections, Dermot Healy's The Travels of Sorrow and Dennis O'Driscoll's Update, as well as Dave Lordan's Lost Tribe of the Wicklow Mountains and Kate Newmann's Grim. There is also a new poem, Light Airs, by Eleanor Hooker.

Finally, Cathy Dillon's Word for Word column is a rich exploration of the connections between walking and writing.