Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell: A confident and compelling debut novel about coercive control
A woman escapes her manipulative creep of a husband. This powerful book asks: what now?
By Kevin Power
Fragments of Victory: the Contemporary Irish Left, edited by Oisín Gilmore and David Landy
‘The phone would ring and it would be Mike Scott from the Waterboys or Bono from U2. Everyone wanted to talk to my father’
January’s YA titles: meditations on grief and mortality (don’t worry, there is still kissing)
I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again: Account by daughter of Gisèle and Dominique Pelicot contains chilling detail
New books about inequality by Thomas Piketty: Counterpoints to the Trump-Musk war on the state
Author Jon Ransom: ‘My mother was remarkable. She gave me a passion to tell stories’
A Tract for Our Times: A Retrospective on Joe Lee’s Ireland 1912–1985: Reappraisal of a historic classic
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Sci-fi and fantasy round-up: Watch out for a weird time-travelling mother and a half-human, half-mosquito anti-heroine
By Declan Burke
The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion review: Insightful history from an Irish perspective
By Anthony Candon
