Irish Northern Aid and how Irish Americans engaged with the conflict in NI

Overblown riffing in the writing makes this book feel indulgent – the antithesis to Cohen’s songcraft

Including The Gnome Book by Loes Riphagen, After by Pádraig Kenny and more

Schaap was 39 when her husband, Frank, died on Valentine’s Day

As a portrait of an intellectual awakening – this memoir stands as a classic

The daughter of the Limerick man killed by Molly Martens and her father gives her side of the story in a powerful, heart-breaking read

Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai; I Am the Cage by Allison Sweet Grant; Every Borrowed Beat by Erin Stewart; Pieces of Us by Stewart Foster; and Stealing Happy by Brian Conaghan

I’m willing to overlook the author’s refusal to name his two male protagonists, who end up in an sexual relationship neither anticipated

The late Donal McCann, one of the giants of Irish stage and film, looms large

McCaulay possesses a Steinbeck-like social awareness of injustice and prejudice

Book explores what Palestinians have lost since their displacement

Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster

New works from Lesley Downer, Anthony Canavan and Yaroslav Trofimov

The Belfast author’s writing demonstrates an ongoing commitment to working-class and queer representation

Sittenfeld captures what it is to be a fairly comfortable white woman in the American Midwest

No surprise that the film rights have been snapped up by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine

Too often the reader is left wanting to know more about these women and their lives

John Boyne hails the Hungarian-English author’s best novel yet

The author’s first book in more than a decade engagingly explores the conflict between liberal individualism and the real demands of a community in which our individualities might flourish

Reviews: Scattered Snows, To The North; The Face in the Well; The Oasis; Menagerie