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Little Green Car: Buy a greener electric/hybrid vehicle if you need to buy a car says Luke Eastwood

How to Save the Planet - Luke Eastwood

Culture / 11 Nov

Author Leo Moynihan: three giants of football strategy profiled in his refreshing new work

The Three Kings: The Makers of Modern Football

Book Review / 7 hrs

Emma Donoghue, best-selling author of Room, is back with Akin

Book review: Akin by Emma Donoghue

Book Review / 05 Nov

Master at work - Lee Child

Reviewed: Blue Moon by Lee Child

Book Review / 04 Nov

Detail from the covert art-work E Nesbit's The Railway Children in the Penguin edition

Review: Eleanor Fitzsimons' Life and Loves of E Nesbit

Pat Boran, co-editor of the compelling anthology Writing Home

Reviewed: Writing Home -The New Irish Poets

Jung Chang: Three Sisters and their fascinating stories

Jung Chang's Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister

Mary Costello: she chooses a Joycean milieu for her new novel

Reviewed: The River Capture by Mary Costello

Vivienne Kearns: the mysteries of genealogy, somewhat reminiscent of the style of Who Do You Think You Are

Book review: The Emerald Dress by Vivienne Kearns

Orlando Figes: evokes the mid-nineteenth century European milieu with particular vividness
(Pic: Phil Fisk)

Book review: The Europeans by Orlando Figes

Cecelia Ahern

Review: Cecelia Ahern's PS I Love You sequel Postscript

David Harris, owner of the Bay Café, Dunmore East, Co Waterford in Paul Kelly's work. David was photographed as a young boy for the iconic John Hinde series of postcards. (See original picture on this page)

Revisiting John Hinde's Ireland: Return To Sender

Irish-American author Mary Beth Keane shatters suburban, respectable New York aspirations

Reviewed: Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

The speed of viral propaganda and it effects are considered among other relevant themes in The Irrational Ape from author David Robert Grimes (pic Abe Niehum)

Reviewed: The Irrational Ape by David Robert Grimes

Who the hell has forty eight women at a hen weekend?! asks Orlagh Doherty.
Authors Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen (photo Al Higgins)

Reviewed: Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling

E M Reapy: the issues facing young women highlighted in Reapy's revealing stories

Reviewed: Skin by E M Reapy

Lucy Sweeney Byrne: her protagonists travel the world and experience loneliness in beautifully-written stories

Reviewed: Paris Syndrome by Lucy Sweeney Byrne

Niall Williams: captures the beauty and richness of rural Ireland wonderfully

Reviewed: This is Happiness by Niall Williams

Current affairs journalist and first-time fiction writer Henry McDonald (pic Bobby Hanvey)

Reviewed: Two Souls by Henry McDonald

Tim Fanning has employed the diaries of a Cavan priest in Spain for his fascinating new work of history

Reviewed: The Salamanca Diaries by Tim Fanning

Vicky Phelan: the system will never be quite the same.

Reviewed: Vicky Phelan's memoir Overcoming

Sameer Rahim: his debut novel depicts two families in restrained conflict in London.

Reviewed: Ashgar and Zahra by Sameer Rahim

Edna O'Brien: exploring trauma and serial loss to extraordinary effect in Girl (Pic: Murdo MacLeod)

Reviewed: Girl by Edna O'Brien

The Roysh stuff: Ross O'Carroll Kelly's new one

Reviewed: Schmidt Happens by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Sophie White: No Filter in her deep dive online amounting to 'a charming novel'

Reviewed: Filter This by Sophie White

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