In the lap of literary luxury
Nadine O’Regan selects the best, most elegantly-produced coffee table books doing the rounds this Christmas
Winter Papers
Edited by Kevin Barry and Olivia Smith
Curlew Editions, €40
Another Christmas means another edition of Winter Papers, Ireland’s annual anthology for the arts, which offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography and visual arts, along with interviews and in-conversation pieces on music, photography and writing. Contributions to this year’s edition come from writers including Selina Guinness, Peter Murphy, Lisa Harding and Leontia Flynn.
The Great Irish Weather Book
By Joanna Donnelly
Gill, €24.99
