Short stories each provide a snapshot of a moment in the narrator’s life

Méabh Ní Fhuartháin brings subtlety and depth to her appraisal of the Fleadh’s progression from grassroots organisation to Ireland’s largest music festival

This addiction and recovery memoir is a masterpiece in making the reader feel out of it

Detailed portrait of Spanish tennis legend traces his complex relationship with the mercurial French Open crowd

The author draws a broader picture that examines not only well-known individuals but also the wider culture

The publisher’s blurb praises Vuong’s ‘syntactical dexterity’, which must be an in-house joke

This best-friends-reunited tale is given added depth by its nuanced exploration of creative endeavour

While Britons have been shown to be open to resettling refugees, years of demonisation has led to a mostly negative view of those crossing the Channel

Skipshock by Caroline O’Donoghue; Best of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel; The Brightest Star by Meg Grehan; The Last Wish List by Jacqueline Silvester; Exit Stage Death by Ava Eldred

Refreshingly, the author presents the protagonists as proper human beings, not tattered cliches on sticks

This is a work rich in standout descriptions

A chillling account of psychiatrist William Sargent’s treatment of women patients in the 1960s

Author has secured the frankness of ex-Provos and soldiers, and this earns the book a key place on the shelves

Rooted in the writer’s own experience, this collection offers the intriguing viewpoint of a person neither truly here nor there

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s use of modern phrases is jarring in this 1980s-set story of two women joining Nasa

Is this debut novel sometimes sloppy and occasionally bad? Perhaps, but to read it is a rush

Reviews of The River Crana; Small Pointed Things; The Magic Theatre; and Father’s Father’s Father

A novel that seems to add up to slightly less than the sum of its parts

A novel written in transparent, unshowy prose, enabling the narrative to maintain its focus on the protagonist

For this writer, walking his dog in the countryside, sex, and practising yoga are all routes to ‘a wonderful infinite being, that I am happy to call God’