History: The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945. By Max Hastings. William Collins, €11.50.
Poetry: What Just Happened
Non-fiction: Bitter Freedom – Ireland in a Revolutionary World 1918-1923. By Maurice Walsh. Faber & Faber, €23. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger.
Irish writer Dermot Bolger’s new novel Tanglewood exhumes the moment when the Celtic Tiger quietly began to implode. On the surface, it’s the story of two Dublin couples who embark on a building project that impinges on both their homes, but the true
Leaving Before The Rains Come. By Alexandra Fuller. Harvill Secker, €17.
The Third Reich in History and Memory By Richard J Evans Little, Brown, €31.50
TK Whitaker Portrait of a Patriot By Anne Chambers Doubleday Ireland, €29 Four-fifths of Ir...
Take in a round of golf in Rory McIlroy's back garden, writes Dermot Bolger.
Echobeat. By Joe Joyce. Liberties Press, €15. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger.
Sport in Ireland 1600-1840. By James Kelly. Four Courts Press, €39.95. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger.
Disobeying Hitler German Resistance in the Last Year of WWII By Randall Hansen Faber & Faber, €31.50
Fire Songs By David Harsent Faber & Faber, €16.35
Village of Secrets Defying the Nazis in Vichy France. By Caroline Moorehead. Chatto & Windus, €19. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger.
The Island Imagined by the Sea: A History of Bull Island By Kieran McNally Liffey Press, Euro 16.95
