Keating uses deadpan expressionism to tell startling tales about what happens to our feelings when they collide with the social world

Author’s 19th book features many childhood and adolescent preoccupations

In part, this novel is about how rich people mobilise to protect their class interests

It’s funny, compassionate, observant and wise

The publisher’s blurb praises Vuong’s ‘syntactical dexterity’, which must be an in-house joke

Ash’s book, recounting her own inner change, is subtle, self-conscious and beautifully wrought

Writers love to complain that literary awards committees are black boxes of partisan conspiracy. I am, in a way, sorry to disappoint

Although this unapologetic portrait of a heterosexual teenage boy isn’t perfect, there is much to savour

Faber’s new editions come with excellent introductions by Colm Tóibín, Claire-Louise Bennett and Eimear McBride

A mixed-bag on purpose, the volume spans prose, poetry and drama then looks at the new in an uncertain era of change

The author’s first book in more than a decade engagingly explores the conflict between liberal individualism and the real demands of a community in which our individualities might flourish

With her first book, Sarkar aims to bury the the culture wars and advance a critique that everyone urgently needs to hear

This multigenerational, transatlantic family saga starts with 9/11 and swerves back in time to Donegal in the 1970s

This rich universe of words includes The Stinging Fly, Banshee, Ragaire, Splonk, Sonder, The Four-Faced Liar, The Pig’s Back, Profiles and Southword

Between Holy Show, Dublin Review of Books, Tolka and the Dublin Review, I had a high stack on my desk