Okay Days by Jenny Mustard: Charming indie love story with a highly contemporary messageThe influencer’s debut novel asks what a relationship might look like if we asked ourselves what we really wantedSat Jul 15 2023 - 05:00
The Couples by Lauren Mackenzie: A fresh and stylish take on the midlife crisisMackenzie’s television background gives her an excellent understanding of propulsive narrative and she adds new elements of drama with generous regularitySat Jul 08 2023 - 05:00
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue: A deeply satisfying novel about friendship and loveSlick and refined like an expensive HBO series, but what gives it heart is the authors’ raucous humourFri Jul 07 2023 - 04:10
Grand: Becoming My Mother’s Daughter – A compelling search for identity Noelle McCarthy’s debut memoir has plenty of tragic moments but is shot through with dark humourSat Jun 17 2023 - 05:00
Tell Me What I Am by Una Mannion: Alleviating the darkness with kindnessWithin a matter of pages, Mannion has drip-fed the reader such intriguing details and characters that we are immediately investedWed Jun 07 2023 - 04:13
‘Every one of us needs affection, affirmation, human contact’ Marzahn, Mon Amour, the 2023 Dublin Literary Award winner, epitomises thisKatja Oskamp quit writing to become a chiropodist. Then her patients inspired her to tell their stories in a book with a Zen-like understanding of life, ageing and deathWed May 31 2023 - 05:15
The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan: A lasting marriage of serious intent and riotous entertainmentDolan wants to show the reader a good time, and she succeedsMon May 29 2023 - 05:00
Dublin Literary Award: Writer who found her feet as a chiropodist wins €100,000 prizeGerman Katja Oskamp shares award for Marzahn, Mon Amour with debut translator Jo HeinrichThu May 25 2023 - 11:23
The Island of Longing by Anne Griffin: An insight into the fragility of the human conditionGriffin’s third novel is her most emotionally complex book yet, heartbreaking and full of gentle humourSat May 06 2023 - 05:00
Burnout nation: how has breaking point become normal?For many of us, breaking point is now the default baseline from which we live our day-to-day livesSun Jan 23 2022 - 06:00
Sophie Ellis-Bextor: ‘I heard myself saying No, but it didn’t make any difference’In a new autobiography she opens up about motherhood, men in music, and her rape at 17Sat Dec 11 2021 - 06:00
Amor Towles: ‘Trumpism is absolutely tied to the failure of the American Dream’The author’s new novel is set in the mid-1950s, when everything seemed possibleThu Oct 28 2021 - 06:00
Climate conversations: ‘The buck stops, with us, the grown-ups, right now’Inter-generational conversations on the climate crisis with Eamon Ryan, Dr Tara Shine, Dara McAnulty and othersSat Oct 23 2021 - 06:00
Is failure excess baggage or is it where the real strength lies?I don’t think my specific failure made me stronger, but it did teach me two important lessonsWed Sept 22 2021 - 06:00
Is motherhood the place where sexiness goes to die?Adding status of mother to your identity is like adding saffron to a recipeWed Sept 08 2021 - 06:00
Pat Barker: ‘Anne Boleyn can’t walk into our world but Helen of Troy can’The novelist continues her retelling of the Iliad from the women’s perspective in new bookTue Sept 07 2021 - 06:00
Edel Coffey: Where have all the smart romcoms gone?They’re dismissed as saccharine, but the really good ones can give you a sugar-free liftWed Aug 25 2021 - 06:00
Hooking up in a modern world: ‘Is a smile enough’ to convey consent?Consent, pornography, #MeToo, asexuality – the sexual landscape has changed significantlySat Aug 21 2021 - 06:00
Claire-Louise Bennett: ‘Most people were being sold a bit of a lie’Checkout 19 novelist on class, male jealousy of writing and the boring world of office workTue Aug 17 2021 - 06:00
Edel Coffey: Needing a parent never really grows oldA parent’s love doesn’t necessarily die with them, but can continue in other waysWed Aug 11 2021 - 06:00
I have realised perfectionism is a form of self-sabotageEdel Coffey: For ages I ran my own personal fight club as friends lapped me with achievementsWed Jul 28 2021 - 06:00
The female television detective: A role model for ageing womenThey show radical self-acceptance and free up huge headspace to do their workWed Jul 14 2021 - 06:00
I had to apologise to the friend who had told me yoga makes you cryTime to take our emotions out of cold storageWed Jun 30 2021 - 06:00
‘Turn the lights off so I can get undressed’ – and other Irish sexual positionsNorway’s national broadcaster has published a sex guide. Any chance, RTÉ?Thu Jun 24 2021 - 06:00
Princess Beatrice hires a £1,000-a-week nanny five months before birth. How pragmatic of herPeople will mock, but any mother who has tried to hire a peak-season bouncy castle will salute herTue Jun 22 2021 - 06:00
I can panic-clean an entire house in 10 minutes flatEdel Coffey: Lockdown’s end signals unexpected visitors’ return – and with them the Big TidyWed Jun 09 2021 - 06:00
What I’ve learned about trying to make friends in adulthoodMaking friends in my 30s turned out to be a challenging prospectSat May 22 2021 - 06:00
Louise Nealon: ‘There is an overwhelming silence and shame in Irish culture’She never thought she’d be good enough to write, but her debut novel sold for a six-figure sumSat May 08 2021 - 06:00
Listening Still: Heartwarming, twinkling with IrishnessBook review: Anne Griffin’s writing is even more assured in her second novelFri Apr 30 2021 - 06:00
Redder Days by Sue Rainsford: a unique new voice in Irish writingBook review: dystopian novel examines the best and worst of our human instinctsSun Mar 14 2021 - 06:00
Two new books about the runaway slave who became Lord Edward FitzGerald’s servantLaura McKenna has written a historical fiction book on the same topic as Neil Jordan’sSat Feb 20 2021 - 06:00
