The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock review: Historical fiction at its finestA stellar debut set in Georgian London blends mythical sea creatures and merchant lifeSat Jan 20 2018 - 06:00
Lullaby by Leïla Slimani review: Meet the help from hellThe ‘French Gone Girl’ is a tense and evocative tale of a nanny’s descent into murderSat Jan 13 2018 - 06:00
Peach review: Emma Glass’s visceral debut bears strange fruitAn extraordinary, powerful debut that looks at the aftermath of a rapeSat Jan 6 2018 - 06:00
The Afterlives review: inventive journey into the unknownLife after death makes for an engaging topic in an imaginative and funny debutSat Dec 30 2017 - 06:00
Everything Must Go review: Jenny Fran Davis’s millennial meat marketAn inventive debut about the conflicting impulses of smart millennial womenSat Dec 16 2017 - 06:00
The best books of 2017: have you missed something great?The year’s best novels and collections from emerging authors at home and abroadSat Dec 9 2017 - 06:00
The Floating World review: Shelter from the stormNew fiction: An excellent debut charts a family’s chaos in the aftermath of Hurricane KatrinaSat Dec 2 2017 - 06:00
Bank Holiday Hurricane review: A memorable first collectionA Belfast writer’s striking debut collection of stories shows much potentialSat Nov 25 2017 - 00:00
The Maid’s Room review: Details drown a worthy debutToo much information and stilted dialogue spoil this tale of exploitation in SingaporeSat Nov 18 2017 - 00:00
New Fiction: Bonfire review‘Marvel’ actress Krysten Ritter sets high school past on fire with debut thrillerSat Nov 11 2017 - 06:00
Histories review: Short, hypnotic insights from the heart of a hospitalA consultant oncologist's debut gives a detailed picture of medical life in interlinked storiesSat Nov 4 2017 - 06:00
Blindboy Boatclub book: A mixed plastic bag of mad ideasThis debut collection is big on creativity but, overall, short on satisfactionSat Oct 28 2017 - 06:00
Sugar Money review: vivid depiction of Caribbean slaveryJane Harris’s third novel is an unashamedly old-school adventure story in the vein of Robert Louis StevensonSat Oct 21 2017 - 06:00
History of Wolves by Emily FridlundThe captivating Man Booker shortlisted debut explores the arbitrary nature of justice and the difference between action and thoughtSat Oct 14 2017 - 06:00
In White Ink by Elske RahillA captivating collection of modern motherhood and marriage with plenty of heartSat Oct 7 2017 - 06:00
The Leavers review: A riveting tale of immigrants in New YorkThis stunning and fearless debut novel is about adoption and the desire to belongSat Sep 30 2017 - 06:00
One Star Awake by Andrew Meehan: Blackout in the city of lightA debut novel from an Irish author shines on the subjects of trauma and memory lossSat Sep 23 2017 - 06:00
The Taste of Blue Light: An original take on trauma and memory lossThe restorative power of art gets a colourful makeover in this debut YA novelSat Sep 16 2017 - 06:00
My Absolute Darling: A compelling debut about horribly tainted loveA remarkable California teen comes to a realisation about her predatory fatherSat Sep 9 2017 - 06:00
We That Are Young review: Whips up a frenzy of injusticeA vivid retelling of Shakespeare’s Lear set in contemporary India by Preti TanejaSat Sep 2 2017 - 06:00
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang: a hilarious and highly original debut collectionSharp and unflinching portraits of Chinese immigrant families in the USSat Aug 19 2017 - 00:00
Elmet review: There will be blood on the Booker longlistA marginalised Yorkshire family battle their community in a well-written but flawed debut from Fiona MozleySat Aug 19 2017 - 00:00
The Watch House review: A very sharp turn on Rathlin islandBernie McGill’s novel about glic women during the advent of radio has a beguiling protagonistSat Aug 12 2017 - 00:00
The Upstairs Room review: a family and disturbing home truthsKate Murray-Browne finds illness and dread as a family moves house in LondonSat Aug 5 2017 - 06:00
Stories to soothe a bitter seaThe power of the imagination shines in a captivating debut on the Yorkshire coastSat Jul 29 2017 - 06:00
Eleanor Oliphant is a most unusual and thought-provoking heroineGail Honeyman’s moving, inventive debut is about a young woman set apart from society because of traumaSat Jul 22 2017 - 06:00
No Filter review: Blurred visions in post-crash IrelandOrlagh Collins’ debut YA novel gives a snapshot of everything from bankruptcy to first loveSat Jul 15 2017 - 06:00
Zinzi Clemmons: Mother courage in ‘What we lose’Private and public grief come together in an engaging new novel about lossSat Jul 8 2017 - 06:00
New fiction review: Room Little Darker by June CaldwellIt is fifty shades darker as submissive sex and rubber-clad gimps vie for attentionSat Jul 1 2017 - 06:00
High-flying romance in an uplifting debut from Eithne ShortallLove in Row 27 brings the First Dates formula to the skiesSat Jun 24 2017 - 06:00
The Weight of Him review: Sometimes heavy-handed examination of teen suicideEthel Ronan’s debut sees an overweight father trying to make sense of his son’s suicideSat Jun 17 2017 - 06:00
This Tumult review: The cost of blind obedienceDebut novel looks at the different roles that one Irish family adopts during second World WarSat Jun 10 2017 - 06:00
Conversations with Friends: Sally Rooney’s debut novel is fearless, sensual writing‘Conversations with Friends review: Sally Rooney offers searing insights on affairs and relationshipsMon Jun 5 2017 - 06:00
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace reviewA highly unorthodox detective story sees a bipolar woman investigate her brother’s suicideSat May 27 2017 - 06:00
The Dead House review: Odd blend of naturalistic and uncannyDebut novel from acclaimed short-story writer Billy O’Callaghan lacks finesseSat May 20 2017 - 06:00
The Iron Age review: steely portrait of postwar FinlandArja Kajermo uses fable and charming illustrations to bring a family’s struggles to lifeSat May 13 2017 - 06:00
After the amputation: a powerful rendering of disabilityHopdance review: Stewart Parker’s posthumous memoir novel captures figments of a lost yearSat May 6 2017 - 06:00
Harvesting review: Lifting the lid on sex trafficking in IrelandActor Lisa Harding’s debut novel is character-driven and highly dramaticSat Apr 29 2017 - 06:00
Teenage brothers on the run with an addict fatherOne of the Boys by Daniel Magariel review: an emotional taleSat Apr 22 2017 - 06:00
How to Be Human review: An unusual date for another mad MaryPaula Cocozza’s beguiling first novel charts the love affair between a lonely woman and a flirtatiously fantastic foxSat Apr 15 2017 - 06:00
Skintown review: Pills ‘n’ thrills and bellyachesActor Ciarán McMenamin’s debut captures the voice of disaffected youth in 1990s NorthSat Apr 8 2017 - 06:00
The Possessions review: sexual obsession from beyond the graveSara Flannery Murphy’s intriguing debut merges the worlds of the living and the deadSat Apr 1 2017 - 06:00
Edith & Oliver review: Illusions of grandeurMichèle Forbes’s story of a doomed romance in the vaudeville world lacks a magic sparkSat Mar 25 2017 - 06:00
Here Comes the Sun review: Used and abused in JamaicaNicole Dennis-Benn’s first novel shines a light on tourism’s underbellySat Mar 18 2017 - 06:00
Ithaca review: Fierce and funny modern odysseyAlan McMonagle’s enthralling debut follows an Irish teenager trying to imagine a better lifeSat Mar 11 2017 - 06:00
10 great books by Irish womenIn the final part of our series on influential books by women writers, we focus on Irish authorsWed Mar 8 2017 - 05:30
Under the Almond Tree review: A teenage refugee’s taleAn Afghan family fleeing the Taliban in the 1990s take refuge on an endless train journeyMon Mar 6 2017 - 10:00
A young Dublin feminist who prefers poison to pianoReview: The Coroner’s Daughter is a gory, frenetic but tongue-in-cheek murder tale set in 1816 DublinSat Feb 25 2017 - 06:00
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine review: Suffering single white femalesAlexandra Kleeman’s disturbing dystopia takes on body image and the beauty mythSat Feb 18 2017 - 06:00
Black Wave review: From hedonism to the apocalypseAmerican LGBT writer Michelle Tea takes a leap from memoir to something a tad more explosiveSat Feb 11 2017 - 06:00