Books by Jane DeLynn, Don Conroy and Jenny Slate

Tessa Hadley’s storytelling and linguistic dexterity mines the imbalance between the sexes

Rachel Hope Cleves serves up racy account of Anglo-American and French dining proclivities

Far from the autobiography it is described as, Francis uses recollections to reflect on current events

New novels by Nnedi Okorafor, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elly Griffiths, Makana Yamamoto and Michel Neva

Seán Ó Hoireabhárd offers clear narrative and succinct analysis of political evolution of Irish kingship

With exceptionally clear prose Searls aims to draw wider conclusions about the nature of the translator’s task from an attentive reflection on his own translations from German, Norwegian, French and Dutch

Martina Evans reviews works by Alvy Carragher, Ian Duhig, Grace Wilentz and the late Gboyega Odunbanjo

A sumptuous volume about the French painter Pierre Bonnard, with scores of captivating reproductions

Sue Prideaux’s book is intriguing and engaging but must be read with care

Friedrich was the go-to for showing figures from behind – mainly, it transpires, because he wasn’t very good at faces

An absorbing, sometimes startling, exploration of a woman’s memories and regrets

Thomas Pakenham’s book simultaneously succeeds and fails; Richard Shimell’s Trees in Winter is emotionally resonant and impactful

On James Baldwin by Colm Tóibín; On the Edge by Nate Silver; The Magic of an Irish Rainforest by Eoghan Daltun; Last Night by Sven Popović, and more

Eva Dou yields great insights into ‘apple of Beijing’s eye’ and potential links to geopolitics and surveillance

The author enlists her investigative journalism skills to understand her mother’s illness and, later, to learn how she might save herself from the same neurodegenerative fate

Clifford avoids hagiography in this rags-to-riches-to-prison-scrubs biography of the dissident billionaire

Soviet history specialist covers the repatriation and resettlement of millions after second World War

Beautifully illustrated book explores science of how living creatures came to look and behave as we do

An exceptional, truth-restoring work of nonfiction about the extraordinarily brave fights women of the Roman empire put up against systematic domestic abuse and femicide

This selection of the President’s magazine columns is a diverse collection of journalism from the left of the Irish political spectrum

Reviews of works by Alejandro Zambra, Toon Tellegen, Gaëlle Bélem and the Marquis de Sade

Political and social turmoil provide the backdrop to themes of violence and identity for this burgeoning generation of writers

Killing Time by Alan Bennett; Anarchy and Authority: Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia by Angela Byrne; Bone Black by bell hooks

Acclaimed Irish architect Dominic Stevens experiments in and excels at writing too

William Hicky, who launched Asia’s first newspaper, was prosecuted for libel and sparked a sensational eight-year trial

The publication of The Rose Garden completes The Stinging Fly’s three-volume collection of Maeve Brennan’s published work

History of Cromwell’s experiment with republicanism is restricted to England and debating chambers of London

Where we went, who we mixed with and how it provided us with the ability to survive deadly bacteria and viruses

Author uses objects and animals to help us get past condescending or racist accounts of the Irish poor

Books on Ireland’s built heritage from Robert O’Byrne, Peter Harbison, Michael Lunt, Susan Roundtree, Ian Hannigan and Andrew Ziminski

Bat Eater is an astonishing work of speculative crime fiction; Hotel Lucky Seven is more delightful the more it gives itself over to its own nearly delirious excesses

Books by Elias Canetti, Kirsten Miller, Angeline King, Noel Russell, Ben Macintyre and Robert Schmuhl

From Lynda Barry’s moving and frequently hilarious workbook for making and thinking to Seán Hogan’s ripping yarn set in a Tipperary town

‘A poem is a coherent rambling. If there is only coherence or only rambling, poetry disappears’

‘Different groups learn in different ways ... so they develop different pools of common knowledge: different cultures’

This story turns on complicated relationships between different traditions in Ireland and how barriers can be overcome

Undercover: Two Secret Lives by Tony Scotland recounts the author’s involvement with Milo, Lord Talbot de Malahide

As communism turned to right-wing authoritarianism, Moscow became an immense version of Dodge City or Tombstone

A scholarly work that seeks to deepen our understanding of Irish monasticism and its influence on church traditions

Highly readable account of a remarkable political life has a conversational tone, reflecting Navalny’s metier of social media

Former Financial Times journalist explains failures and fallacies that caused his country to lose its way

This is a thoroughly researched book about espionage on and by the Vatican

This is less a sequel to the author’s Hollywood’s Eve than a retelling, with Didion now cast as the lead

Today’s technologies are facilitating crime on a vast scale, and Ireland has a significant footprint in this murky, international gang-controlled world

Including books by Susan Cahill; Bill Wood; Scarlett Dunmore; Rosie Talbot and Sarah Maxwell; and Bex Hogan

This rich universe of words includes The Stinging Fly, Banshee, Ragaire, Splonk, Sonder, The Four-Faced Liar, The Pig’s Back, Profiles and Southword

Sentences of unrelenting realism builds up gradually, layer by layer, to an astonishing depth and tenderness

The visceral quality of the writing binds these stories together, sharing a taste for queasy horror and delighting in discomfort

This beautifully presented book captures the political and cultural events of the years 1913-1923 with convincing contemporary-style newspaper reportage