Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan wins An Post Irish Book of the Year 2024
Author repeats success with sequel to his debut The Spinning Heart, which won award in 2012
By Martin Doyle
From Anne Enright to Dr Seuss: eight of the best books to read at Christmas
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel by Edwin Frank – A must-buy for fans of fiction writing
A novel exploration of the shared Gaelic heritage of Ireland and Scotland
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Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah by Charles King – Not the work of a ‘lone genius’ but a collaborative achievement
Waking up to Christmas
Finnegans Wake: untangling its histories of humans, the animal world and the environment
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Poet Grace Wilentz: ‘Ireland has been very generous to me. There’s an abundance of fresh air and bookstores and intellectual stimulation’
By Adrienne Murphy
New poetry: Works by Niall Campbell, Elisa Gonzalez, John McAuliffe and John Fitzgerald
By Declan Ryan
Kevin Power: I took a deep dive into Irish literary magazines and would do it again without hesitation
By Kevin Power
I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You by Miranda Hart: A self-help memoir that is helpful but too long
By Adrienne Murphy
The Color of Family: History, Race and the Politics of Ancestry: Academic page-turner decodes US administrative racism
By Luke Gibbons
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World by David Graeber: Intense flares of thought from a brilliant mind
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Festive frights around a blazing fire: it’s time to revive the Christmas ghost story
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