International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist: women dominate list that ‘reverberates with history’
Novels transport readers from 1930s Japan-ruled Taiwan to Nazi-controlled Europe, from magic and domesticity in 1990s France to the Iranian Revolution in 1979
By Martin Doyle
The Visit by Neil Tully: Lyrical debut novel asks what happens to those left behind
The News from Dublin by Colm Tóibín: Stories by a writer with complete command of the craft
Fiction in translation: City Like Water; Women Without Men; X is Where I Am; You Are the Fuhrer’s Unrequited Love
Louise Nealon: ‘I’m exploring an energy of misogyny that we all participate in’
Sheila O’Flanagan: Losing family members makes you aware of how fragile our connections are
James Joyce - A Political Life by Frank Callanan: Depth and detail over a wide historical canvas
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POETRY
Tana French: ‘In Ireland, things are coded. You don’t necessarily have the code when you arrive’
By Peter Murphy
What We Tried to Bury Grows Here by Julian Zabalbeascoa: traumatic Spanish Civil War impact captured
By Julian Girdham
We Need to Talk about Roy by Dave Hannigan: Game effort, but Roy Keane is no Katie Taylor
By NJ McGarrigle
The Shortest History of Ireland by James Hawes: Unorthodox, accessible, deeply impressive
By Neil Hegarty
The First Ghetto: Venice and the Jews by Alexander Lee: Stunning account of a dark history
By John Banville
‘My mother found love letters written to my father by another man when pregnant with her fourth child’
By Alex Clark
The Library of Traumatic Memory by Neil Jordan: Immediately engaging kaleidoscopic read set in 2084
By Val Nolan
Crime fiction: From a disturbing revenge story to a Romanian detective in an absurd bind
By Brian Cliff and Elizabeth Mannion
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