Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne review: One of the books of the year, if not the decade
The Illegals by Shaun Walker: The Russian agent who couldn’t get Irish people to shut up, and other spy stories
Rebel Notes: A timely take on republicanism and music, from The Wolfe Tones to Kneecap, via Alan Partridge
‘Nobody was looking at its potential’: The Monaghan man who built Ireland’s biggest solar power company