Book Review

Book Of The Day: Free Therapy by Rebecca Ivory

Losing yourself in a book is a distinct pleasure, rarely found. But finding yourself in a book is rarer still, and – when done well – pretty unnerving.

Book Of The Week: Wild Houses by Colin Barrett

It's often hard to believe the hype on social media, but occasionally there comes a book which warrants all the praise it's receiving.

David McCullagh on a story of Irish Nationalism in Britain

After the Decade of Centenaries - ten years of intensively studying the events of a century ago - is there a single new thing to be said about the period from the Third Home Rule Bill to the Treaty?

Book Of The Week: Lazy City by Rachel Connolly

There's an expectation that all novels coming out of the Northern Ireland are only about the 'Troubles'.

Book Of The Week: My Hot Friend by Sophie White

If you were to casually flick through Sophie White's latest novel, you'd never guess that her last work, Where I End, a blood-curdling tale of family and neglect, scooped this year's Shirley Jackson Award for horror fiction.

David McCullagh on a tale of church and state in 1950s Ireland

In December 1941, Ernest Tilson was desperate to get married. His girlfriend, Mary Barnes, was pregnant, and given the social mores of the time, a quick marriage was vital.

Book Of The Week: Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy

In the opening section of Claire Kilroy's latest novel – her fifth, and first in 11 years – the unnamed narrator recalls abandoning her newborn son on a cliff walk just months after giving birth...

Reviewed: I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

There are few writers who have the ability to cause hysteria when new work is announced: the likes of Donna Tartt, Sally Rooney, the late Cormac McCarthy come to mind.

Martin Luther King: David McCullagh on MLK's life and legacy

Sometimes our veneration for heroic figures can do them an injustice, stripping them of their humanity, the halos we choose to fix on them obscuring rather than revealing their true selves.

Reviewed: Snowflake by Louise Nealon

Charlotte Ryan reviews the debut novel from Ireland's latest hot literary ticket...

Salman Rushdie's Victory City reviewed

Victory City is an epic chronicle of the rise and fall of Vijayanagar...

Reviewed: Fling by Joseph Murray - TikTok creator writes rom-com

"Name one thing that can be gained from technology", said Greg Kinnear in the 1998 romcom classic You've Got Mail. If Joseph Murray's debut novel Fling were to rise to the challenge decades later, it would answer: true love.

Book Of The Week: Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry

Tom Kettle is a retired detective, living in a flat attached to a castle-like house on the South Dublin coast. A widower, as the story opens he has been retired for nine months and is enjoying a solitary, peaceful life...

Times change: David McCullagh on Irish foreign policy in the 60s

Book Of The Week: The State Of Dark by Judith Mok

Book Of The Week: Going Back by Eugene O'Brien

Surrender by Bono - Sinead Crowley reviews his autobiography

Book Of The Week: Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

David McCullagh on one man's journey to the Good Friday Agreement

Caitríona Perry on Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America

David McCullagh on the extraordinary life of Rose Dugdale

Book Of The Week: There's Been a Little Incident by Alice Ryan