Sophie: The Final Verdict – compelling collection of circumstantial evidence about Toscan du Plantier murder
‘There is an abundance of material implicating Ian Bailey,’ writes Senan Molony, finally unbound by defamation law
By Ray Burke
Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare – Exposing lies and cover-ups
Booker Prize 2024 shortlist: women dominate but sole male author is a likely favourite
Paschal Donohoe on Atlas of Finance: Wonderful illumination of our economies and histories
Neil Jordan: We lived in an Ireland that emanated from the brain of one paranoid individual
Money: A Story of Humanity by David McWilliams: Clarion call for a radical economic future
Sally Rooney: A bluffer’s guide to the Irish author’s novels
Richard Osman on the Thursday Murder Club film: ‘I got to see how handsome Pierce Brosnan is up close’
Sally Rooney: ‘There is something Christian about my work, even if I would not describe myself as religious’
By Martin Doyle
Carlo Gébler: ‘I want Irish unification and Northern Ireland in Europe. We do not belong in a UK that is not in Europe’
By Martin Doyle
The Golden Road by William Dalrymple: India at its most influential was open, tolerant and receptive to ideas
By Cauvery Madhavan
The Red Emperor. Xi Jinping and the New China: An exceptional Machiavellian operator
By Oliver Farry
A History of Irish Magic: Occultism of national life explored
By Adrienne Murphy
Poem of the Week: At the King’s Coronation the talk is of the Weight of his Once-Off Crown
By Clodagh Beresford Dunne
Pierre Joannon, Graham Greene, Ireland and the Honorary Consul: A view from the South of France
By Jane Conroy
Walking in Samuel Beckett’s footsteps: In some mysterious way, the landscape captures the soul of the artist
By Alan Gilsenan
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner: Fun, devastating, far more urgent than a typical thriller
By Charleen Hurtubise
Dublin Book Festival 2024: treats for the curious
By Julianne Siron
Secret strategies in the North of the 1980s: John Stalker, MI5 and the ‘shoot-to-kill inquiry
By Paddy Hillyard
Frankie by Graham Norton: Goodbye William Trevor, hello Barbara Cartland
By Eilís Ní Dhuibhne
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading by Sam Leith - monumental and invigorating
By Patricia Craig
‘I have the freedom now to say things I could not while holding office’: Leo Varadkar pens autobiography
By Sarah Burns
How rugby became an Irish game: From niche unionist sport to a world-class contender
By Liam O'Callaghan
Matt Haig: ‘ADHD and autism has helped me be more compassionate to myself, but I am not being defined by it’
By Martin Doyle
Crime fiction: New books by Attica Locke, James R Benn, Michael Russell, Stuart Neville and Ian McDonald
By Elizabeth Mannion and Brian Cliff
Love Me! By Marianne Power: Fruits of a five-year love and sexual liberation pilgrimage is illuminating
By Adrienne Murphy
These were our killing fields: one parish disfigured by decades of death, destruction and collusion
By Martin Doyle
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020 by Diarmaid Ferriter - A hugely valuable exploration of a rollercoaster time
By Christopher Kissane
Roddy Doyle: ‘I feel quite good about living in Ireland. But I think we were probably a bit smug’
By Róisín Ingle