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Books

Book Review

Lapvona – Dark medieval fairytale confounds at every turn

Ottessa Moshfegh’s latest novel is just as opaque and bewildering as its three predecessors
  • Niamh Donnelly
  • June 23, 2022
Book Review

This Is Not a Pity Memoir: An unshowy but dramatic portrait of a life torn apart

Award-winning screenwriter Abi Morgan’s account of how she effectively lost her husband to a terrible brain injury is full of heart yet simultaneously unsentimental
  • Nadine O’Regan
  • June 3, 2022
Book Review

The Belladonna Maze – An eerie page-turner that blurs past and present

RTÉ arts correspondent Sinéad Crowley’s new novel hits every mark for lovers of ghost tales
  • Andrea Cleary
  • June 2, 2022
Book Review

A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting – Debut novel brings a touch of class back to the Regency romance

Sophie Irwin’s new book hits the sweet spot where modern sense meets historic sensibility
  • Anna Carey
  • May 28, 2022
Books

Book review: Ruth and Pen: A Novel – Warm and engaging debut with plenty of depth

After an acclaimed collection of essays, Emilie Pine dips her toe into fiction for the first time with impressive results
  • Estelle Birdy
  • May 15, 2022
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Book review: When the Dust Settles – A moving, unsettling memoir by a woman who deals with the aftermath of carnage

Disaster recovery expert Lucy Easthope has written a deeply humane, yet strangely uplifting book about her experiences
  • Brendan Daly
  • May 15, 2022
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Book review: Tales from the Fraud Squad – Enjoyable reminisces from a Garda straight shooter

Willie McGee’s memoir is an unpretentious but enjoyable collection of anecdotes about a lengthy career of criminal investigations
  • Andrew Lynch
  • May 15, 2022
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Book review: Duffy and Son – a warm, witty and wise tale of a male Monaghan matchmaker

Damien Owens knocks a barrel of laughs out of a septuagenarian father’s attempts to help his middle-aged son find love
  • John Walshe
  • May 15, 2022
Music

‘Nobody wanted me as a musician, they wanted me to be Saint Bob, and I couldn’t stand it’: How a new Geldof emerged when the hits dried up

A new book by journalist Nick Duerden offers a fascinating account of what happens to pop stars once their moment in the sun passes. In this extract, Bob Geldof tells him about wrestling for an identity after the music faded
  • Nick Duerden
  • May 14, 2022
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Louise O’Neill interview: ‘I’ve pushed myself much further than I ever have with any other novel’

With Idol, her latest novel, and three screen adaptations of previous novels in the works, Louise O’Neill shows she has no intention of becoming complacent or easing up on confronting uncomfortable facts in her fiction
  • Niamh Donnelly
  • May 14, 2022
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Book review: Exit Stage Left – A wry look at the second lives of yesterday’s musical idols

Music journalist Nick Duerden tracks down a succession of former pop stars to find out what happened when the hits dried up – and the results are hugely entertaining
  • Nadine O’Regan
  • May 11, 2022

Book review: This Woman’s Work – A fascinating fusion of female perspectives on music

Journalist Sinéad Gleeson and musician Kim Gordon have put together an entertaining collection of essays on the influence of music on women’s lives
  • John Walshe
  • May 8, 2022

Book review: None Of This Is Serious – A heavily hyped debut shows plenty of promise

Catherine Prasifka’s first novel has its imperfections, but also enough about it to hint at rich potential for the future
  • Nadine O’Regan
  • May 8, 2022

Book review: Nina Stibbe on sparkling form with One Day I Shall Astonish the World

Nina Stibbe’s latest and fourth novel may not feature her much loved character Lizzie Vogel, but the story is nevertheless as funny and moving as her previous outings
  • Anna Carey
  • May 7, 2022
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Sally Rooney: How one young Irish writer became the voice of a generation

The novelist exploded onto the literary scene seven years ago as a remarkable young talent, but why has she become so irrevocably lodged in the consciousness of contemporary Ireland?
  • Niamh Donnelly
  • May 7, 2022

Book review: Trouble – Marise Gaughan confronts her past in a brutally honest account of her difficult relationship with her father, addiction issues and her eventual road to recovery

Comedian brings her storytelling skills to a remarkable and relatable memoir
  • Andrea Cleary
  • May 6, 2022

Book review: Pandemonium – An incisive account of how Ireland dealt with Covid

In an impressive feat of investigative journalism, Jack Horgan-Jones and Hugh O’Connell go behind the scenes to tell the story of how our public representatives fought hard, and sometimes against each other, to contain the nightmarish situation of the pandemic
  • Andrew Lynch
  • May 6, 2022

Book Review: The Flames – Giving voice to Egon Schiele’s silent muses

Sophie Haydock’s portrait of four women who inspired the 20th-century artist’s is carefully imagined and rich in detail
  • Niamh Donnelly
  • May 1, 2022

Book review: An Accidental Icon – the eventful and sometimes absurd life of a ‘true queer hero’

Norman Scott, a gay man in a hostile and homophobic 1960s/70s Britain, became notorious when he accused Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe of attempting to have him killed but, as his memoir attests, there were many other shocking and tragic events in his life
  • Andrew Lynch
  • May 1, 2022
Books

Book review: A musician celebrates difference and resistance in well-crafted science fiction stories

The collection tackles afrofuturism, the manipulation of memory and mind control, and explores further the themes introduced in Janelle Monae’s 2018 album, Dirty Computer
  • Andrea Cleary
  • May 1, 2022

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