A reverential look at the eventful life and times of Suds

Piano man plays it safe with genial but guarded memoir

A warts-and-all account of the Iron Lady’s later years

The letters that reveal Trinity College’s close call during the Rising

The green ‘godmother’ turns her fire against neoliberalism

Going deep into the messy story behind Irish Water

Cameron makes a clean breast of his wasted premiership

The Second Sleep is not a medieval whodunnit akin to Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. Instead, Harris has conjured up a futuristic nightmare along the lines of George Orwell’s 1984

Why we get fooled again and again by being too trustful

Andrew Lownie’s book is officially a joint profile, giving equal billing to the headstrong and vivacious woman Louis Mountbatten married in 1922

Angels With Blue Faces is an intriguing cold case study in which Lyra McKee's earthy and idealistic voice shines through the bleak subject matter

In Malachi O’Doherty’s typically freewheeling and idiosyncratic new book, he imagines meeting his teenage self and telling him what the next half century was to bring

A good news story about the future of journalism

Former RTÉ producer David Blake Knox has used the story of Thomas Niedermayer and his ill-fated family as a springboard for a consistently thought-provoking read

Annie director Nikolai Foster sacrifices subtlety for speed, and the production races along from the opening song, Maybe, to the festive conclusion, A New Deal for Christmas

Nadine O’Regan and Andrew Lynch pick out 20 perfect reads for relaxing with during long summer days