Delving below Healy’s surface is rewarding and illuminatingLiterary fiction; Dermot Healy: TheCollected Short Stories; Edited by Keith Hopper and Neil Murphy; Dalkey Archive Press, €15
Ambitious morality tale loses its wayFiction; Something To Hide; By Deborah Moggach; Chatto & Windus, €17.25
Bittersweet new play shows Belfast stripped bareVisually arresting, Shibboleth revolves around the contentious building of a ‘peace wall’
Saggy, indulgent writing weakens latest de Bernières blockbusterFiction: The Dust that Falls From Dreams. By Louis de Bernières. Harvill Secker, €19. Reviewed by Joanne Hayden
South Africa’s troubled history viewed through a lensfiction: Up Against the Night. By Justin Cartwright. Bloomsbury, €17.25.
Latest production of Wilde classic focuses on funTheatre: The Importance of Being Earnest. By Oscar Wilde. Directed by Kate Canning. Smock Alley Theatre until August 22. Rating: ***.
Contemporary sequel to Wilde classic is bold and relevantTheatre: The Importance of Being Honest. By Billie Traynor. Directed by Liam Halligan. Bewley’s Café Theatre @ Powerscourt until July 25. Rating 3/5
A fictional awakeningAmerican author Emily Lockhart says that young adults embrace the experimentation in her bestselling family saga, We Were Liars
A scandalous woman in 18th century Dublinbiography: Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of an Irish Whore. By Julie Peakman. Quercus, €19. Reviewed by Joanne Hayden.
Book review: The House of Hidden MothersNon-fiction: The House of Hidden Mothers. By Meera Syal. Doubleday, €25.50. Reviewed by Joanne Hayden.
Theatre: Casey’s anti-war play still packs a punchTheatre: The Shadow of a Gunman. By Sean O’Casey. Directed by Wayne Jordan. Abbey Theatre until August 1. Rating ****. Reviewed by Joanne Hayden
Capturing the mundane in an oddly addictive wayMemoir: Dancing In The DarkMy Struggle: Book FourBy Karl Ove Knausgård. Harvill Secker, €19.
A timely and intelligent look at loveTheatre: In On It. Written by Daniel MacIvor. Smock Alley, Dublin. Until April 25th. Rating ***.
Abbey’s clever production led by Ireland’s finestTheatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Directed by Gavin Quinn. Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Runs until March 28. Rating: ***. Reviewed by Joanne Hayden.
Agony in Munich's departure loungeMunich Airport. By Greg Baxter. Penguin, €17. Reviewed by Joanne Hayden.