Books Book review: Sara Pascoe’s maverick novel hits both heart and funny bone In Weirdo, the comedian and feminist thinker has delivered a perfectly pitched fictional debut that hovers between acerbic and devastating
Books Book review: Floundering woman becomes lost in lockdown as things fall apartA poignant tale of a character trying to stay afloat as a crumbling community reveals what lies beneath
Books Book review: Julia is a more human retelling of Orwell’s masterpieceIn this feminist reimagining of Nineteen Eighty-Four, women are fleshed out from the mere symbols Orwell created
Books Book review: Maniac is a profoundly human story about cutting-edge scientific discoveriesThe Maniac is a semi-fictional biography about John von Neumann, one of the scientists who worked on the development of the first nuclear bomb
Books Book review: Penance goes for the jugular of true crime fandomClark’s tour de force of a novel encourages us to question every real life crime book and documentary we’ve ever consumed
Books Book review: It’s an emotional ‘bye, bye-bye-bye, bye’ to our national treasureOur beloved Aisling has her head and heart pulled in opposite directions in the last book of Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen’s series
Books Book review: Honest, poetic memoir uses sea as canvas for memory, grief and survivalIn a powerful debut, Miriam Mulcahy describes her emotional journey following the death of her parents and sister, who also loved sea swimming
Books Book review: Dark and emotive mystery captures the essence of small-town tragedyUnanswered questions, gossip and rumour abound in Amanda Cassidy’s intricate and well-balanced crime thriller
Books Book review: Goddesses takes sacrificial knife to toxic feminism Nina Millns’ debut novel makes fun of self-serving white feminism while highlighting its more dangerous consequences
Books Book review: Swinging couples serve up a fantastic page-turner that leaves you wanting moreLauren Mackenzie’s debut novel was inspired by her parents’ sexual adventures when she was young
Books Book review: Between the swinging and the partying, The Couples gets to heart of real lifeLauren Mackenzie’s debut novel has some great plot lines, even if they get a bit convoluted at times
Books Book review: Eithne Shortall’s The Lodgers is an uplifting tale of the power of the collectiveThe writer’s fifth novel is filled with well-drawn characters and reverberates with hope
Books Book review: Paula Cocozza’s Speak to Me is a wake up call on how tech murders romanceReaders may identify with alienation felt by the protagonist in Cocozza’s second novel Speak to Me, whose husband’s smartphone has become ‘the other woman’
Books Book review: Exploring the issues that arise from being a black Democrat dating a Trump fanThe backlash against Everything’s Fine
Column Andrea Cleary: Vital human activity of storytelling under threat from technologyWith television close to overtaking film as the dominant art form of this generation, we risk losing that spark of creative humanity if artificial intelligence is let loose for the sake of profit
Books Have book, will travel: Business Post writers select the best reads of summerBusiness Post Magazine contributors Andrew Lynch, Andrea Cleary, John Walshe and Pat Carty unpack their best of summer books
Books Book review: Annie Mac’s The Mess We’re In is a visceral account of the reality of the music business The DJ-turned-author’s second novel is a coming of age story about a young Irish woman trying to make it in London’s record industry
Books Book review: My Hot Friend tackles cruelty and kindness of modern female friendshipThe dark and light sides of Sophie White’s work meet in this refreshing take on the particular challenges of being a thirtysomething woman in the 2020s
Column Andrea Cleary: We need to change our tune towards representation of women in Leaving Cert music Omitting women from the syllabus teaches girls that they have no place in the field and ignores the fact that girls hugely outnumber boys in music classrooms
Books Book Review: Character-driven mystery that quietly takes hold of the readerDon’t let the length of Lydia Sandgren’s Collected Works put you off. By the time you come to the end, you’ll be wishing for more