Helm by Sarah Hall: This might make more sense as a series of short stories
There is no overall plot connecting the dozen or so temporally disparate narratives
By Emily Formstone
Hamnet author Maggie O’Farrell to set new novel in post-Famine Ireland
Irish writers and Japan: Heaney, Longley and the perfect haiku
A Long Winter, and Ship in Full Sail by Colm Tóibín: A brain of serious range
Conversation with the Sea by Hugo Hamilton: A novel of near-perfect beauty
Sebastian Faulks: ‘I’m a very facetious guy in real life’
The Two Roberts by Damian Barr: Eloquent imagining of the lives of artists Colquhoun and MacBryde
The Quiet Ear - An Investigation of Missing Sound: Deafness not as deficit, but a distinctive mode of relating to the world
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The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri: Raw, fascinating, relatable to many in modern Ireland
By Charleen Hurtubise
Intensive Care - True Stories of Healing, Heartache and Hope from Inside Irish Children’s Medicine: Where split-second decisions mean life or death
By Orla Tinsley
War and Power: Who Wins Wars – and Why: A convincing case that war is simply a failure of politics
By Tom Clonan
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