Neil Hegarty

Physical reality all too often masked by history is dragged out in gory details not for the squeamish in Paul Carlucci's debut novel

Roland Philipps explores contradictions, complexity and character of an Irish hero in this compelling biography

Some of the most powerful essays in this book flow from the author’s early experiences as a Protestant in the cauldron of Derry

The two men of the title would be the last to go to the gallows for the crime in England

Night Swimmers is a Covid novel, emphatically so: it is the first spring of the pandemic, the sun shines daily and the air is warm, as if nature is mocking the fear that presses all around

A fascinating analysis, one in which the author emphasises that the institution of the library can seldom be regarded as ideologically neutral

The great gift of this book is to offer access to optimism, in these late and shadowed days

In developing the idea of expansive, planetary politics, Malay offers a bright, fierce hope for the future

The novel ironises the sort of touring, soft-focus TV series that celebrates all that is quirky and individual in the life of a nation

This compelling book serves as a powerful castigation of those who would draw the lines of society and communal identity so as to narrow diversity

Time and the natural world are at the heart of this new work by the author of Thin Places

Fragmentation of St Cuthbert’s story reveals the author’s true subject to be the plasticity of history itself

A book that is most powerfully effective in its appeal to our deeper feelings

Book review: Eoghan Daltun has written a fascinating account of ecological rejuvenation on the Beara peninsula

Delaney shows deftly that our dreams need never abandon us, even in the face of brutality and abjection