Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte: Squirm-inducing, laugh-out-loud satirical short stories
The writer exposes the darker impulses of us all as we bid for connection in a bewildering online world
By Charleen Hurtubise
The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century by Richard Reid – An erudite and informed work
First there was Ryanair: How the Ryan family came back from the brink and brought low-fare airlines to the world
Crime fiction: New works by Sara Gran, Michael Idov, Julia Dahl, Rachel Donohue and TC Parker
The New Nuclear Age by Ankit Panda: Could ‘growing loose talk’ lead to the ultimate disaster?
Author Seán Farrell: ‘Dermot Bolger said there was a whiff of silage off my novel. I think that was a compliment’
Books in brief: The Princess of 72nd Street; The World Administered by Irishmen; The Lamb
The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst: An interesting and unusual book told from a 12-year-old’s perspective
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Wild West Village by Lola Kirke: Frank, often darkly comedic accounts of celebrity-adjacent family antics
By Helen Cullen
The Secret Painter by Joe Tucker: A complex, multilayered portrait of an ostensibly ordinary working-class life
By Karl Whitney
Frogs for Watchdogs by Seán Farrell: Tremendous debut set in 1980s Co Meath floats free of constraints
By Alex Clark
A breakthrough era for women’s writing, from Edna O’Brien’s risks to JK Rowling’s Harry Potter debut
By Paula McGrath
Author Elaine Garvey: When I was a teenager, you couldn’t be ‘easy’ but you couldn’t be ‘frigid’ either. Whatever you did was wrong
By Edel Coffey
