Books Book Review: My Heavenly Favourite is a nauseating but utterly fearless readThe Dutch writer Lucas Rijneveld outlines the mind of an abuser in claustrophobic detail in his difficult but compelling second novel
Column Eithne Shortall: There’s a lot to be said for an occasional burst of blind self-confidenceDoubts may be useful at stopping us making tits of ourselves, but they can also hold us back a little too much
Books Book Review: A balanced account of Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian hero who is no saint The Showman is a gripping combination of biography, war reportage and political analysis
Books Book Review: An enjoyable smorgasbord of Victorian society, with a proper boo-hiss villain Story finds room for Victorian social history, questions about the press crossing lines and enjoyable portraits of characters
Books Book Review: Brevity is the soul of grit in darkly wrought short story collection from Tinker, Tailor screenwriterUnforgettable assortment of stories from acclaimed writer Bridget O'Connor, who died in 2010, is not afraid to go to dark places
Design Take Three: Craft bookbinders who are bringing a special kind of magic to the written wordThere’s something truly exceptional about a handmade book. These traditional bookbinders champion the process
Books Book Review: Poet Holly Pestor’s debut novel The Lodgers delivers a thoroughly rewarding readThe British author’s debut novel explores what it means to live and love within and outside of family structures
Books Book review: An accomplished debut riffs on class and the ClassicsAncient Greeks with Dublin accents take centre stage in clever historical novel
Books Book review: Thinking outside the box is low on reward for this New York dolls tale Tale of porcelain and plastic dolls in a mishmash of narrators and writing styles, by the poet Karen McCarthy Woolf, is arguably a little too clever for its own good
Books Books: Delayed reaction to the man whose vision for public housing transformed DublinImpressively researched study shows how tortured, visionary architect Herbert Simms redefined social housing in the capital, but leaves personal questions unanswered
Book Review Book review: Nice plot, shame about the characters in Hercule Poirot’s latest outingSophie Hannah has overpopulated the crumbling Norfolk mansion where her new novel is set, to the detriment of the story
Opinion Eithne Shortall: All hail the season of getting into bed at 8pmAfter the frenetic pace of the Christmas rush, there is an oft-undervalued joy to the January lull
Books Book review: Bosch and Haller are back in business in new Connelly blockbuster Resurrrection Walk, his 38th outing featuring the hardbitten former detective, just proves you can’t keep a good man down
Books Book review: The Lamplighters of Phoenix Park is an illuminating ramble around Dublin’s ‘green lung’Social historian and Three Castles Burning podcaster Donal Fallon’s gently meandering, richly illustrated book offers a folk history of the Phoenix Park
Books Book review: Twists aplenty in Jo Nesbo’s Kafka-esque revenge thriller The Night HouseNorwegian bestselling crime author Jo Nesbø wastes no time in ratcheting up the tension in latest horror inspired page turner
Books Book review: Stuffed is a sweet banquet of food history bitesHistorian Pen Vogler examines the forces influencing food history including the rise of the strawberry from the 1950s
Books Book review: The Reluctant Beatle is an insightful but cold biography of George Harrison Philip Norman’s competent, professional and highly readable biography can only get so close to its subject
Tastemaker Rob Doyle, novelist: ‘A personality trait that I admire in others? Defiance’The Dublin-born novelist’s most recent book is Autobibliography and he has new writing in the latest editions of Winter Papers and Dublin Review
Books Book review: Depraved New World is an intimate, scathing dispatch about the failure of Britain’s ruling classThe forensic writing of
Books Book review: Sumptuous Winter Papers will warm any bookshelfKevin Barry’s ninth compendium has something for everyone who appreciates the arts