Blank Canvas by Grace Murray: A different class of campus novel
Sharply-written story doesn’t shy away from questioning how far the bounds of familial love and loyalty can go
By Emily Goulding
Barbara Pym is Jane Austen with a side of jumble sales, public transport and laugh-out-loud one-liners
Rogue Elephant: How a divided Republican Party allowed Trump to take control
Solidarity and Pressure: A thorough history of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement
Off the Scales by Aimee Donnellan: a lively tale of the stunning rise of Ozempic
Tanya Sweeney: ‘It was a massively stressful time... I fell into a bit of a depression’
Performative readers could only dream of the reaction War and Peace got on the Belfast train
Murder and mayhem features in January YA titles, and a fun exploration of an iconic tale
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The Successor: Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin and the end of Russia’s democratic dream
By Conor O’Clery
Rob Doyle: ‘I’m 43, but I’m still going into my own guts and exposing the weird and the shameful stuff’
By Martin Doyle
Myles Dungan on former pupil Tom Dunne: ‘When I read his first essay I accused him of getting his big sister to write it’
By Martin Doyle
The Undead: A zombified Lenin wreaks havoc on Moscow; the Russian state wreaks havoc on a film-maker
By Colm McKenna
Somewhere Cold by Geraldine Osborne: Remarkable account of a family’s icy adventure
By Helena Mulkerns
The Outsiders Who Built Irish Entertainment: Wendy Elliman details the evolution of a national empire
By John Walshe
The best fiction of 2026 to look forward to: Books from Louise Kennedy, Donal Ryan, Sebastian Barry and more
By Martin Doyle
New poetry: Alia Kobuszko; John F Deane; Ruth Carr; and Tom Paulin’s razor-sharp return
By Mícheál McCann
Alexandre Kojève, An Intellectual Biography by Boris Groys: alternative world visions
By Eugene Brennan
Nonfiction books coming in 2026: From a new memoir by Louise O’Neill to Roy Keane’s impact on modern Ireland
By Martin Doyle
Rewiring Democracy: ‘Citizen acceptance and trust in AI matters as much as AI capabilities’
By Sinéad Gibney
