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Television by Lauren Rothery: A novel about deeply cynical people living semi-charmed lives
Television shares some flaws with its namesake medium, but when Rothery captures the raw materials of the moment, her prose rises off the page
By Kristen Poli
Blank Canvas by Grace Murray: A different class of campus novel
Barbara Pym is Jane Austen with a side of jumble sales, public transport and laugh-out-loud one-liners
Rogue Elephant: How a divided Republican Party allowed Trump to take control
Solidarity and Pressure: A thorough history of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement
Off the Scales by Aimee Donnellan: a lively tale of the stunning rise of Ozempic
Tanya Sweeney: ‘It was a massively stressful time... I fell into a bit of a depression’
Performative readers could only dream of the reaction War and Peace got on the Belfast train
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The Successor: Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin and the end of Russia’s democratic dream
By Conor O’Clery
Rob Doyle: ‘I’m 43, but I’m still going into my own guts and exposing the weird and the shameful stuff’
By Martin Doyle
Myles Dungan on former pupil Tom Dunne: ‘When I read his first essay I accused him of getting his big sister to write it’
By Martin Doyle
The Undead: A zombified Lenin wreaks havoc on Moscow; the Russian state wreaks havoc on a film-maker
By Colm McKenna
Somewhere Cold by Geraldine Osborne: Remarkable account of a family’s icy adventure
By Helena Mulkerns
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