‘What has you here?’: Eight years dead and safe in a Galway graveyard, yet here Grandad was standing before me
‘What has you here?’: eight years dead and safe in a Galway graveyard, yet here Grandad was standing before me
By Nuala O’Connor
Vatican Spies by Yvonnick Denoel: This could have provided John le Carré with enough material for a second career
Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik: It’s almost unfair for a biography to be such fun
Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto: How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World’s Deadliest Crooks by Geoff White - An engrossing and mind-blowing guide
December’s YA picks: Genre fiction where horror tropes are subverted, thwarted and perpetuated
The Fall of Man: a Christmas short story by Donal Ryan
Kevin Power: Literary magazines are all the more vital for operating off the commercial grid
Eve in Ireland: Controlling and Silencing Irish Women, 1922-1972 by Ailish McFadden
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Caricature and the Irish: Satirical Prints from the Library of Trinity College, Dublin c 1780-1830
By James Kelly
She’s Always Hungry by Eliza Clark: Punchy, funny and unapologetically perturbing short stories
By Miriam Balanescu
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel by Edwin Frank – A must-buy for fans of fiction writing
By Paul Larkin
The best crime fiction of 2024: Robert Harris, Jane Casey, Joe Thomas, Kellye Garrett, Stuart Neville and many more
By Declan Burke, Brian Cliff, and Elizabeth Mannion
Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah by Charles King – Not the work of a ‘lone genius’ but a collaborative achievement
By Jenny McAuley
Finnegans Wake: untangling its histories of humans, the animal world and the environment
By Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan
