A meticulously researched historical novel that captures the beauty, danger, and politics of Tibet in 1869

Michael Loughman’s James Ryan and the Development of Independent Ireland, 1892-1970 is an eminently readable biography of an unjustly neglected politician

Pádraig Lenihan’s outstanding new book includes events and figures seared into Ireland’s collective historical and cultural memory

Broad scholarship still reflected in stylishly produced journals across the country

This book is, for want of better phrasing, a bit too well-written. There’s virtually nothing to be thought or said about it

An understated story in which the echoes of shared trauma cascade through the years

The author of The North Water returns to the Arctic for this brutal, beautiful, luminously lyrical novel

Compelling book argues convincingly that the 1997-2007 government was not a continuation of Thatcherism

This biography of the right-wing media celebrity is timely, informative and highly readable

Cullen’s journey of discovery is the type that can haunt its reader in the middle of the night

The New York setting is ideal for exploring the amorality of those corrupted by power, although the distinction between rich and poor is a little too neat

Garner ought to have been held back, edited, forced to rewrite. That’s what agents, publishers, editors are for

If you are therapy-curious, a therapist or simply interested in the tenacity of the human spirit, this is for you

The Other Couple by Claire McGowan; Three Windows by Patricia Gibney; The Final Problem by Arturo Pérez-Reverte; Gone for Good by Sarah Crossan; and True Blue by Joe Thomas

The novel has its bursts of lunacy and humour but would have been more subversive had the author embraced its shallow fun

At the book’s core is an ongoing dialogue with Patrick Kavanagh’s The Green Fool

Hidden histories of the Mizen; a celebration of a forgotten poet; and observations of the natural world

This stunning novel has the grip of a true-crime documentary

The Next World War – The New Age of Global Conflict and the Fight to Stop It

This is not a book about collapse, nor a story of triumphant overcoming. It is something more complex