Author Susannah Dickey: ‘With each book I find myself more invested in writing Ireland’
In the author’s Donegal-set third novel Into the Wreck the vessel of the title ‘represents in some ways the plethora of suppressed histories harboured by families’ across the island
By Martin Doyle
Bodily Fluids by Liam Hughes: Medical memoir aims to entertain but lacks nuance
EL by Thaddeus Ó Buachalla: An early contender for most ambitious Irish novel of the year
Communion by Jon Doyle: A genuinely idiosyncratic way of describing the everyday
The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley: More extraordinary writing about ordinary lives
London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe: Mastery of timing makes this investigation a page-turner
Mr Hoo and Other Stories: No judgment in these barrister’s tales united by literary mastery
Python’s Kiss by Louise Erdrich: Intriguing, vital and often funny
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Nonesuch by Francis Spufford: Distinctly Narnian in timbre – pure story of the richest kind
By Kevin Power
Among Communists by Sinéad Morrissey: memoir captures North in pressure cooker of weirdness
By Nicholas Allen
All Them Dogs by Djamel White: Magical writing which tenderises the most hardened characters
By Elizabeth Mannion
International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist: women dominate list that ‘reverberates with history’
By Martin Doyle
Fiction in translation: City Like Water; Women Without Men; X is Where I Am; You Are the Fuhrer’s Unrequited Love
By Frank Wynne
Sheila O’Flanagan: Losing family members makes you aware of how fragile our connections are
By Martin Doyle
James Joyce - A Political Life by Frank Callanan: Depth and detail over a wide historical canvas
By Terence Killeen
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