Unflinching examinations of contemporary teenage life in October’s YA picks
A Kathleen Glasgow novel that asks the big questions, and new works by AS King, Louisa Reid, James Butler and Jason Reynolds
The Ukrainian female commander fighting Putin’s forces: ‘If I have to choose between death and captivity, I will choose death’
How Paddy Cosgrave’s relations with his former friends have gone from bad to worse to extremely ugly
Niall Williams: ‘I am here to write the books I’m supposed to write, not the books an Irish Times reviewer would like’
The Killing of Gaza by Gideon Levy & The Gates of Gaza by Amir Tibon: Two very different books
How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko’s Fight for Ukraine by Lara Marlowe - nuanced, frank, remarkable
Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley: Stories with an ominous quality, like a knock at the door on a dark evening
Mr Geography by Tim Parks: The agonising choice between safe domestic ordinariness and the thrilling promise of illicit passion
The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton: Championing Werner Heisenberg, Immanuel Kant and Jorge Luis Borges
By Colm McKenna
By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult: A sumptuous novel by an undeniably brilliant storyteller
By Edel Coffey
Some of our Parts by Laura Kennedy: A brilliant philosophical memoir about our multiple identities
By Adrienne Murphy
Andrew Michael Hurley: ‘I’m a very lapsed Catholic ... but I think horror and supernatural stories fill that gap’
By John Self
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich: Echoes of Steinbeck in a timeless novel full of strong women
By John Boyne
Shooting Crows by Trevor Birney: Heartfelt personal writing meets hard-edged journalism
By Malachi O'Doherty
IMRAM: Taylor Swift as Gaeilge and much more
By Liam Carson
‘A period piece, a has-been, totally unknown to this generation’: Rediscovering WM Letts
By Bairbre O'Hogan
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism: a one-sided critique
By Brian Hanley