Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum: Disturbing account of strongmen’s links
Evie Wyld: ‘I think the feeling of homesickness is the root of a lot of my writing’
Father, Son & Brother Ghost by John MacKenna: Subtle artistry by one of Ireland’s best writers
The High Seas by Olive Heffernan: An expert’s enthralling view of the oceans is short on hope
The Boundless River. Stories from the Realm of the Rhine: Exploring a living entity
The Language of Architectural Classicism by Edward McParland: A masterpiece of discovery
Lemony Snicket: And Then? And Then? What Else?: A Writer’s Life by Daniel Handler - A thoughtful and eloquent celebration of story
The End of Drum Time: Stunning novel of love affair set in 19th-century Lapland
By Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
Keanu Reeves: ‘Maybe I have father issues and mother issues. And maybe I think about death’
By Alexandra Alter
Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good by Eley Williams: Moderate to good, occasionally great
By Doug Battersby
Irish First Ladies and First Gentlemen, 1919-2011 by Bernadette Whelan: All the presidents’ spouses
By Conor Brady
Ireland out of England: The learned forgetting and remembering of a unionist Brexiteer
By Brendan O’Leary
Anne Applebaum: ‘Trump is a transactional person whose interest is in himself... It’s why he is more dangerous’
By Mark Paul