Trinity graduate wins Women’s Prize for Fiction
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Anna Llewellyn wins Caterpillar Poetry Prize
A man teaching the birds to sing captivated this year’s judge
Latest sci-fi: Future lifeforms, ‘Indiana Jones’ in space and a woman’s reluctance to save mankind
People Like Us by Julie Parsons: A life formed around a deeply personal mystery
Portaloos signposted as lavatories? Sold out lobster bisque? It can only be Borris Festival
Unmasking Samantha Cookes: Superb exposé of a spiralling conwoman
Novelist Niamh Campbell: ‘The Dublin of 2015 was so full of optimism. Bit by bit it got harder to stay’
Summer YA reading: Romeo and Juliet meet at a death resort while teenagers take over the world
Whistler by Ann Patchett: a lesser-told love story between step-parents and stepchildren
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Land review: Breathtaking epic marks Maggie O’Farrell as a daring chronicler of 19th century Ireland
By Cóilín Parsons
Debut novelist Jessamine O’Connor: ‘Trying fiction was really refreshing. I have been doing poetry for 20 years’
By Martin Doyle
First of December of Karen Jennings: A quietly devastating novel about slavery’s undoing
By Molara Wood
Stefan Al’s spirited account of what humans have got right and wrong when making homes
By Richard Horan
What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton: A resonant take on the distance between reality and illusion
By Colm McKenna
Rough Edges by Natasha Carthew: Irish echoes in Cornish writer’s account of Britain’s coast
By Nicholas Allen
Jemimah Wei’s The Original Daughter: Masterful in depiction of pettiness and codependency
By Maya Kulukundis
Make Strange by Niamh Campbell: Haunting portrayal of maternal anxiety nested in an unnerving premise
By John Boyne
Meena Kandasamy’s message to women on online misogyny: ‘You need to meet it with brazenness’
By Róisín Ingle
The Queer Bookshelf: A Reader’s Guide – a useful framework, but by its nature a book of omission
By Neil Hegarty
Short story: ‘Every time you tell me I’m pretty, the more comfortable I feel in my own skin’
By Claire Harty
This Poor Book: A Poem by Fanny Howe – a radical final act by an extraordinary Irish-American
By Alice Lyons
Elites and Democracy by Hugo Drochon: Heavyweight contribution to long-running debate
By Andrew Lynch
