The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick: A love letter to New York and the solo life
Now released in the UK and Ireland, Gornick’s memoir of city life, friendship and gender inequality explores the joy and challenges of living alone
By Edel Coffey
How to make an audiobook: the perfect voice, detailed prep and a raconteur’s instincts
Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell: A confident and compelling debut novel about coercive control
Fragments of Victory: the Contemporary Irish Left, edited by Oisín Gilmore and David Landy
‘The phone would ring and it would be Mike Scott from the Waterboys or Bono from U2. Everyone wanted to talk to my father’
January’s YA titles: meditations on grief and mortality (don’t worry, there is still kissing)
I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again: Account by daughter of Gisèle and Dominique Pelicot contains chilling detail
New books about inequality by Thomas Piketty: Counterpoints to the Trump-Musk war on the state
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A Tract for Our Times: A Retrospective on Joe Lee’s Ireland 1912–1985: Reappraisal of a historic classic
By Daniel Carey
Sci-fi and fantasy round-up: Watch out for a weird time-travelling mother and a half-human, half-mosquito anti-heroine
By Declan Burke
The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion review: Insightful history from an Irish perspective
By Anthony Candon
