Bullaun Press wins Republic of Consciousness prize
There’s a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem, translated from French by Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert, is also longlisted for the International Booker Prize
By Martin Doyle
Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025: Miranda July, Elizabeth Strout and four debuts make shortlist
Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn: Remarkable debut collection that deserves to be considered among the best Irish books of the 21st century
The Bureau by Eoin McNamee: If you’re interested in what the Border truly means, read this exceptional novel
Granard Booktown: Creating a Dingle of the midlands
A Dictionary of Irish Saints by Pádraig Ó Riain: Wonderfully written and incredibly valuable
Why would a father put his law student son in a car with a known fugitive?
Translated fiction reviews: the best of China’s incredibly deep storytelling tradition
Book Club
Sign up to the Irish Times books newsletter for features, podcasts and more
Author Shane Hegarty: ‘I’m lucky to see the work done by teachers. They are undervalued’
By Martin Doyle
Abundance; The Care Economy; The Measure of Progress: ‘The old is dying and the new cannot be born’
By Vic Duggan
‘The city is always changing but this is the Dublin of now’: Declan Meade on capturing the capital in words and prose
By Róisín Ingle
Putting Wales First by Richard Wyn Jones: Thinking for Wales - An exciting read with global relevance
By Angela Graham
Francis of Assisi: The Life of a Restless Saint – An empathetic and evenly paced treatment of the medieval saint
By Andrew Roycroft
Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts: A climate-change novel weighed down by a deluge of soupy prose
By Huda Awan
Irish Times readers pick Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These as the best Irish book of the 21st century
By Ella Sloane
Dublin Literary Award 2025 shortlist revealed: Irish Booker winner Paul Lynch makes the cut
By Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
