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Book review: Straight-shooting history of Defence Forces exposes continuing gamble on peace

The free access to armed forces archives granted to Eoin Kinsella has resulted in a well researched and beautifully illustrated book, though on occasion the author skirts around controversial topics

Book Review: Tim Marshall boldly goes where no geopolitical thinker has gone before

With technology outpacing law on the use of outer space and planetary bodies such as the Moon, the foreign affairs journalist and author argues we may end fighting over ‘territory’ there, just as we have done on Earth

Book Review: Nothing Special offers glimpse into Warhol’s wild New York

Nicole Flattery’s smart, stylish and sharp debut novel avoids focusing on the pop art legend, instead painting a picture of his liberating influence on society

Book Review: Literary ghosts of Dublin come alive in fascinating stroll through city

From literary legends to small scale pamphleteers, Chris Morash’s book opens up new corners of a city bursting at the seams with writers great and small

Book Review: Will of iron or heart of stone? Biography explores life of Civil War hero Liam Lynch

Gerard Shannon’s impressive book on the anti-Treaty figurehead argues the case for his grim determination to see the struggle out to the bitter end

Book Review: Harlan Coben’s latest thriller will wind you up, but not let you down

The supremely crafted I Will Find You delivers on every level and has more twists than a 1950s dance hall

Book Review: Why Britain’s sound and fury on Brexit signified nothing

Stefaan De Rynck was a close aide of EU negotiator Michel Barnier, and his book Inside the Deal is an enlightening account of an arduous process

Book review: Wild Embrace is a wake-up call for the need to reconnect with the natural world

Anja Murray’s anguish at the relentless assaults on our environment is palpable and to her, the magic of wild places is both intimate and personal

Walk the Line with Catherine Prasifka: “Social media is now a lens through which reality functions, and I wanted to capture that”

The Dublin author’s debut novel None Of This Is Serious was birthed during the pandemic, and taught the writer that ‘finished is better than perfect’

Book review: Short story collection gives Atwood’s marvellous imagination full room to roam

Old Babes in the Wood is the author’s eleventh collection of short stories and showcases her mastery of the written word

Book review: Two Sisters memoir a stark, raw and melancholic account of a complicated family life

Poet and novelist Blake Morrison had one sister who died after 30 years of alcoholism and another from suicide, here he attempts to excavate the self-destructive forces that led to the deaths of Gill and Josie

Book review: Dirty Laundry is a scathing tale of the reality behind social media filters

Disha Bose has written an acerbic story set in Cork that mainly concerns three richly-drawn female characters that will have readers smiling, even as they cringe

Book review: The Ties that Bind is an insightful look at links between Scotland and Northern Ireland

Boris Johnson’s bridge idea may be dead in the water, but Graham Walker and James Greer show that the psychological links between the two countries are more profound than any physical one

Book review: Warning from history of when racism flourished under guise of science

Paul Harding’s third novel This Other Eden recalls a time when eugenics seemingly gave a licence to learned society to marginalise and torment those considered undesirables

Book review: How Madagascar pirates may have put traditional society to the sword

In Pirate Enlightenment Davide Graeber details how the flowering of equality among various multi-ethnic buccaneering groups could have influenced the enlightenment movement in Europe, but the evidence for this is thin on the ground

Book review: The day a friend and fixer to the stars pinned a drunken John Lennon to the ground

Tony King worked for superstars like the Beatles, Freddie Mercury and Elton John, but he’s too loyal to disclose any real scandals, and The Tastemaker is at its best when he focuses on his own insecurities

Book review: Adopted woman’s dream of finding her mum becomes a nightmare

In Mother’s Day Anna Rampion finally meets her birth mother, but Marlene turns out to be the mother of all evil mothers in a bleak tale of motherhood told in a sometimes clunky, uneven style

Book review: Geary’s spare but beautiful prose illuminates tender friendship in a tough world

Juno Loves Legs follows the lives of two working-class Dublin children as they navigate the poverty and prejudice of 1980s Ireland

Book review: How capitalism and democracy should be run like Ireland

Martin Wolf, the author The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, gives a favourable nod to the way Ireland is governed as he outlines a series of piecemeal reforms that he says would restore people’s faith in both capitalism and democracy

Book review: Moon cycles used to charts life’s up and downs in remarkable memoir

Using each month’s moon, Twelve Moons tracks Caro Giles’ attempts to find meaning, significance and routine in the chaos of single parenthood, coping with divorce, Covid and the struggle and challenges of everyday life