The 60 authors in this ‘career retrospective’ include Claire Keegan, Anne Enright, Maeve Binchy and Sebastian Barry

Louise O’Neill’s past novels have demonstrated a capacity to disturb; here she has opted to write something more superficially entertaining

A novel of doubleness, memory, and the uneasy inheritance of love

Scottish writer’s novel is propelled by an anarchic energy whose literary style approaches the quality of a troubled dream

New anthology brings together 33 voices exploring access, ambition and the cost of getting on in publishing

Practical advice on how we can reconnect with nature and our community, and tackle hunger and poverty without destroying the planet

Clues to its existence abound, from the works of Bowen to Behan

Set in Northern Ireland, Dickey manages to skilfully include the brutalising legacy of the Troubles while simultaneously keeping it in the background of this novel

Carson’s forays into the strange borderlands of Lough Neagh’s waters give the novel a weird brilliance, like Kevin Barry without the swearing

Function of this genre is to sublimate what Nietzsche called ressentiment, the rage that arises from a feeling of powerlessness

A timely contemplation, in a series of academic essays, of the strategies of war, international relations and nuclear deterrence

Love Magic Power Danger Bliss: Yoko Ono and the Avant-Garde Diaspora; A Hard Day’s Night; The Evolution of American Film Music, 1960s-1990s

YA fiction reads for April from Caryl Lewis, Méabh Collins, Derek Landy, Susie Nadler and a debut from Stephen Daly

The writer on literary reputation, emigration and ‘the crushing weight of being the only gay in the village’

Country she depicts is not romanticised but simply lived in: a world of small houses, strained marriages and worried parents

Authorial relish and exuberance are apparent on every page of this short story collection, with contributions from Naoise Dolan, Sarah Maria Griffin and more

Despite their defeat in two historic strikes, the British miners’ struggle raised huge questions for society

The third novel in French’s Cal Hooper series is an immersive read that demands to be savoured

An accomplished playwright, performer and essayist, McDonagh brings to her debut novel the authority of lived experience

Mrie is remarkably brave in her documentation of Syria, its people and what she did after she realised she was unable to keep living in the way that was expected of her