Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell: A confident and compelling debut novel about coercive control
A woman escapes her manipulative creep of a husband. This powerful book asks: what now?
By Kevin Power
Fragments of Victory: the Contemporary Irish Left, edited by Oisín Gilmore and David Landy
‘The phone would ring and it would be Mike Scott from the Waterboys or Bono from U2. Everyone wanted to talk to my father’
January’s YA titles: meditations on grief and mortality (don’t worry, there is still kissing)
I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again: Account by daughter of Gisèle and Dominique Pelicot contains chilling detail
New books about inequality by Thomas Piketty: Counterpoints to the Trump-Musk war on the state
Author Jon Ransom: ‘My mother was remarkable. She gave me a passion to tell stories’
A Tract for Our Times: A Retrospective on Joe Lee’s Ireland 1912–1985: Reappraisal of a historic classic
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Sci-fi and fantasy round-up: Watch out for a weird time-travelling mother and a half-human, half-mosquito anti-heroine
By Declan Burke
The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion review: Insightful history from an Irish perspective
By Anthony Candon
Author Nicola Dinan: ‘Working as a lawyer taught me how much can turn on a single word’
By Martin Doyle
Bonnard by Isabelle Cahn review: Shrewd and illuminating on an artist more radical than Picasso
By John Banville
The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich’s Journey Through Time review – An intriguing take on the life and work of the German painter
By Gemma Tipton
The Tree Hunters’ Glasnevin focus is gratifying but it barely glances at the calamities created by colonialist adventurers
By Neil Hegarty
House of Huawei review: Intriguing deep dive into Chinese tech powerhouse and its enigmatic founder
By John Walshe
A Silent Tsunami by Anthea Rowan review: A courageous account of the ravages of Alzheimer’s with a message of hope
By Adrienne Murphy
The Troublemaker by Mark L Clifford: Story of tycoon turned activist Jimmy Lai is consistently compelling
By Rory Kiberd
Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War – A fascinating chronicle of postwar resettlement
By Geoffrey Roberts
