Books of the year 2025: Authors and critics pick their favourites
Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story and Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Every One Still Here are among the year’s top choices
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Dublin, Written in Our Hearts, edited by Declan Meade: A gloriously evocative and meandering trip through the city
Anne Enright, Sarah Gilmartin, Kevin Barry and Paula Meehan are among the writers who contributed to this beautiful collection
Want to be a writer? ‘Marry well’ might be the best advice
‘Something will turn up’ is a fragile belief to sustain over financially challenging decades – and nothing ruins creativity like anxiety
Read this and weep: Books that made writers cry
John Boyne, Edel Coffey, Ferdia Lennon, Sarah Gilmartin and a dozen other authors and critics on books that had a profound emotional effect on them
The best books of 2021 so far: Novels, memoirs, short stories and more
Authors and critics choose the books that have moved and impressed them this year
Booker Prize 2019: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo are joint winners
Evaristo is first black woman to win prize; Handmaid’s Tale sequel is second win for Atwood
Last Stories by William Trevor is this week’s Irish Times Eason book offer
A sneak preview of this Saturday’s books pages
The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton is this Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer
A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages
John Boyne describes ‘one of those long dark nights of the soul’ after break-up
Novelist reveals he ended up in hospital after taking too many pills
Ferenji review: This means war
Helena Mulkerns’s engaging debut collection features stories set in conflict zones
The Atomic Weight of Love review: fledgling feminism
Elizabeth Church’s debut novel on nuclear war and women’s liberation fails to take flight
Private Citizens review: ‘Middlemarch’ for millennials
Tony Tulathimutte offers a comic portrait of privilege and friendship in noughties ’Frisco
Paradise lost: the relative pain of the rich and poor
A Cameroonian couple's American dreams are dashed amid the global financial crisis
Shakespeare and me: Irish writers on the Bard's best bits
Some admirers celebrate the playwright’s work on the 400th anniversary of his death
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