Books as Christmas gifts
John Banville's picks
Marilyn Monroe by Donald Spotto
Venice, City of Pictures by Martin Gayford
A Life in Letters: John Updike
Fifty Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America by Sam Tanenhaus.
Leo Varadkar's picks
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything about the World – by Tim Marshall
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Attwood
The Happy Prince, by Oscar Wilde
The Secret Life of Leinster House by Gavan Reilly
Apeirogon by Colum McCann.
Clelia Murphy's picks
A Mind of my Own - Cathy Burke (Audiobook narrated by the author)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Letters from The North Pole – by Annie Atkins
Lessons in Kindness by poet Dani Gill
Wolf Men and Water Hounds - The Myths, Monsters and Magic of Ireland by Manchán Magan and illustrated by Steve Doogan.