Author Lisa Harding: ‘I have never been scared to look at the dark side of life’
The novelist on her latest book, Wildelings; her penchant for unlikeable characters; and how her acting background is a boon to her writing
By Martin Doyle
Fiction in translation: Figures in a landscape
The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East by Fawaz A Gerges – engaging read for seasoned observers
Poem of the Week: Donegall Street, Béal Feirste
Life in Spite of Everything by Victoria Donovan: A sad and angry history of Donbas
Becoming Irish American: The Making and Remaking of a People from Roanoke to JFK
Books in brief: Hermit; Flower; Spring is the only Season
Jane Casey and Stuart Neville shortlisted
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The Eyes of Gaza. A Diary of Resilience: Surviving one of the deadliest military campaigns in recorded history
By Tadhg Hoey
The Celts: A Modern History by Ian Stewart - an extensive work overlooking several essential studies
By Peter Berresford Ellis
Crime fiction: Detectives Maeve Kerrigan and Charlie Parker return in new killer thrillers
By Brian Cliff and Elizabeth Mannion
America, América by Greg Grandin: An extraordinarily ambitious history of conquest and control in the Americas
By Daniel Geary
Author Caroline Madden: ‘My luck turned when I created a female protagonist seething with quiet resentment’
By Martin Doyle
For Emma by Ewan Morrison: If only this thrilling dystopian novel were science fiction
By Andrew Gallix
