New memoir from Girls creator has plenty of humour - as well as sadness, betrayal and score-settling

Caroline Sharples delineates the political atmosphere of post-capitulation Germany and real fears Allies harboured about reawakening of Nazism

Islands are receptacles of dreams and obsessions – yet we should be careful what we wish for

Contributors note the 1926 census recorded an Ireland ‘in transition’, with emigration and poverty rife, yet the new State was finding its feet

Eoin O’Sullivan, Mike Allen and Sarah Sheridan’s study is essential reading for anyone with a role to play in breaking vicious cycle of persistent problem

There are many poignant moments, but the main character’s inner monologue is often scathingly funny

A salutary warning of the dangers of carelessness and miscalculation in the conduct of international affairs

Hybrid work aims to create an enigmatic portrait of the French author

Plus new works by Rosemary Hennigan; Catriona Ward; Claire Coughlan; and James Wolff

Trinity College Dublin cleaner’s beautifully written memoir is no rags-to-riches story but a book about motherhood, choice and the constant renegotiation of a woman’s life

The 60 authors in this ‘career retrospective’ include Claire Keegan, Anne Enright, Maeve Binchy and Sebastian Barry

Louise O’Neill’s past novels have demonstrated a capacity to disturb; here she has opted to write something more superficially entertaining

A novel of doubleness, memory, and the uneasy inheritance of love

Scottish writer’s novel is propelled by an anarchic energy whose literary style approaches the quality of a troubled dream

New anthology brings together 33 voices exploring access, ambition and the cost of getting on in publishing

Practical advice on how we can reconnect with nature and our community, and tackle hunger and poverty without destroying the planet

Clues to its existence abound, from the works of Bowen to Behan

Set in Northern Ireland, Dickey manages to skilfully include the brutalising legacy of the Troubles while simultaneously keeping it in the background of this novel

Carson’s forays into the strange borderlands of Lough Neagh’s waters give the novel a weird brilliance, like Kevin Barry without the swearing

Function of this genre is to sublimate what Nietzsche called ressentiment, the rage that arises from a feeling of powerlessness