Storyteller’s shadow: Patrick Smyth on his mother Jennifer Johnston
Jennifer Johnston’s relationship with her father is far from her whole story but she remained wrongly convinced she was still in his shadow
Minority Rule by Ash Sarkar: Pick up this book and see the world clearly
Author Carmel Harrington: ‘I was 40 before I dared to start querying agents. After 47 rejections I decided to self-publish’
Robert Plunket: A man in full re-emerges into the literary ferment
Colum McCann on his new book: ‘You could actually take down the world’s internet ... with a fleet of 20 ships’
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser: Who’s afraid of the wealth, racism and snootiness of Virginia Woolf?
The Woman in the Wallpaper by Lora Jones: French Revolution and its impact on women
Mother Animal by Helen Jukes: A forensic excavation of mothering complexity
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Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice by Steve Crawshaw - when impunity cannot be tolerated
By Shane Darcy
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian - why the nation state still matters
By Michael Sanfey
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte: Squirm-inducing, laugh-out-loud satirical short stories
By Charleen Hurtubise
The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth Century by Richard Reid – An erudite and informed work
By Justin Willis
First there was Ryanair: How the Ryan family came back from the brink and brought low-fare airlines to the world
By Tom Lyons
Crime fiction: New works by Sara Gran, Michael Idov, Julia Dahl, Rachel Donohue and TC Parker
By Elizabeth Mannion and Brian Cliff
