Rachel Hope Cleves serves up racy account of Anglo-American and French dining proclivities

Far from the autobiography it is described as, Francis uses recollections to reflect on current events

New novels by Nnedi Okorafor, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elly Griffiths, Makana Yamamoto and Michel Neva

Seán Ó Hoireabhárd offers clear narrative and succinct analysis of political evolution of Irish kingship

With exceptionally clear prose Searls aims to draw wider conclusions about the nature of the translator’s task from an attentive reflection on his own translations from German, Norwegian, French and Dutch

Martina Evans reviews works by Alvy Carragher, Ian Duhig, Grace Wilentz and the late Gboyega Odunbanjo

A sumptuous volume about the French painter Pierre Bonnard, with scores of captivating reproductions

Sue Prideaux’s book is intriguing and engaging but must be read with care

Friedrich was the go-to for showing figures from behind – mainly, it transpires, because he wasn’t very good at faces

An absorbing, sometimes startling, exploration of a woman’s memories and regrets

Thomas Pakenham’s book simultaneously succeeds and fails; Richard Shimell’s Trees in Winter is emotionally resonant and impactful

On James Baldwin by Colm Tóibín; On the Edge by Nate Silver; The Magic of an Irish Rainforest by Eoghan Daltun; Last Night by Sven Popović, and more

Eva Dou yields great insights into ‘apple of Beijing’s eye’ and potential links to geopolitics and surveillance

The author enlists her investigative journalism skills to understand her mother’s illness and, later, to learn how she might save herself from the same neurodegenerative fate

Clifford avoids hagiography in this rags-to-riches-to-prison-scrubs biography of the dissident billionaire

Soviet history specialist covers the repatriation and resettlement of millions after second World War

Beautifully illustrated book explores science of how living creatures came to look and behave as we do

An exceptional, truth-restoring work of nonfiction about the extraordinarily brave fights women of the Roman empire put up against systematic domestic abuse and femicide

This selection of the President’s magazine columns is a diverse collection of journalism from the left of the Irish political spectrum

Reviews of works by Alejandro Zambra, Toon Tellegen, Gaëlle Bélem and the Marquis de Sade