This is a portrait of a mother with a stunningly unfeminist approach to mothering and all of her personal relationships

Ninth novel from Indian author questions expectations and notions of ‘classic’ French ideal

As in The Godfather, the characters are bound not just by crime and family, but because they are immigrants

The author argues that democracy is built to facilitate abject inequality, not to combat it

Lister argues that women have never been less sexual than men, but the narrative has been controlled with a firm male grip

This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë benefits from access to the writer’s rediscovered poetry notebook and Lutz’s expert reappraisals of her poems

New fiction from Emily Hourican, Catherine Doyle, Ciara O’Connor, Shane Hegarty, Christopher Galvin, Mitch Johnson, Matt Oldfield, Gordon D’Arcy and Paul Howard

Mícheál McCann reviews new collections by Rachel Long, Billy Ramsell, Máighréad Medbh and Moyra Donaldson

There are plenty of villains in the Donegal writer’s authoritative probe on how gambling has infected soccer’s soul

Authors Richard Heller and Peter Oborne bat for the greatest thing on God’s Earth in this well-researched book

There was, the author writes, ‘no history of what had happened to me’ or historical women, of ‘experiences long considered to be too private... to be admitted as true history’

Final instalment in French author’s family cycle project reconfigures the nature of autobiography

New books from Christopher Morash, Meena Kandasamy and Mary Daly

Modern-day Grapes of Wrath describes how Chris Smalls set out to unionise Amazon warehouse workers

Author of Less returns with a warm, hopeful novel set in Italy

‘What a glum mood runs through this anthology’

Critic Sathnam Sanghera responds to a feeling there has never been a serious examination of George Michael the music-maker

A History of Down High School, 200 years of the Impartial Reporter, and A History of First Presbyterian Church Armagh

Rather than being transported by this 750-pager, one has the sense of being trapped within an elaborate in-joke

Although some might find the style of this novel about the love between two male friends a little too florid, the author pulls it off