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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

Books / 21 mins

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

Paul Lynch: another triumph with
Beyond the Sea

Reviewed: Beyond The Sea by Paul Lynch

A bird's eye view of Ramallah

Reviewed: Going Home by Raja Shehadeh

Friedrich Nietzsche: with friends like these . .

Reviewed: I am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

Hundreds of protesters gathered in solidarity with political prisoners last February at Barcelona's Plaça Catalunya.

Reviewed: After the Fall by Tobias Buck

Dream team: Jimmy Webb and Glen Campbell pictured in 2006

Reviewed: The Wichita Lineman by Dylan Jones

Deborah Levy does not succeed with The Man Who Saw Everything

Reviewed: The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy

Expectation author Anna Hope (pic: Laura Hynde)

Reviewed: Expectation by Anna Hope

Paddy (Lafcadio) Hearn was inspired by tales of the Fianna and nineteenth century Irish ghost stories.

The Lure of the East: Lafcadio Hearn's Japan

Jean Giono: the French writer was held without charges in 1944 after France's liberation from the Nazis. He was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1954.

Book review: A King Alone by Jean Giono

Culture / 18 Aug

Summer Reads: books for your beach list

Karen Perry: a very satisfying read, with a punchy ending and a twist that delivers more than a simple bait and switch.

Reviewed: Come a Little Closer by Karen Perry

Colm Tóibín: essays on the fathers of our great writers

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know by Colm Tóibín

Culture / 24 Jul

Kevin Barry: banter and menace in the port of Algeciras

Reviewed: Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry

Book Review / 19 Jul

Adam Nicolson: engaging as he evokes South Somerset and Devon, and autobiographical when he wants to be.

Reviewed: The Making of Poetry by Adam Nicolson

Michael Collins was the Irish Volunteers' director of intelligence in early 1919, the year the War of Independence began

Review: Ireland's War of Independence by Lorcan Collins

Kurt Tucholsky: fearless in the face of the Nazi murder machine

Writing under the Nazi jackboot: Tucholsky and Kästner

Joseph O'Connor's novel begins in Dublin in 1878 and takes in the Oscar Wilde trial en passant

Reviewed: Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor

Jhumpa Lahiri. The American writer has written acclaimed works of fiction in both Italian and English, which makes her the ideal candidate to edit the present volume.

The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

Writer Polly Devlin (photo Jonathan Goldberg)

Book Review: Writing Home Polly Devlin

Culture / 10 Jun

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