The Genetic Book of the Dead by Richard Dawkins: An exploration of where we came from and where we are going
Beautifully illustrated book explores science of how living creatures came to look and behave as we do
By Sean Duke
Irish debut authors 2025: It’s already shaping up to be a vintage year
Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac: This makes Game of Thrones look like a Jane Austen TV adaptation
Power to the People: The Hot Press Years by Michael D Higgins. Minority reports from Ireland of the 1980s and 1990s
I loved Alice Munro but recent revelations have tainted her legacy forever
Fiction in translation: Alejandro Zambra rescues fatherhood from the box-ticking dutifulness of parenting manuals
‘I actually felt unsafe as an English person in the Aviva’
Latin America’s female new wave finds its voice
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Anne Enright: ‘I am a proud Dubliner, born and reared. I spurn these lyrical types yearning for the rural’
By Anne Enright
Hicky’s Bengal Gazette: How India’s possibly Irish first newspaper editor fell foul of its British rulers
By Mihir Bose
Architectural Tales by Dominic Stevens: Imaginative reflections on the spaces we create, and the spaces in between
By Gemma Tipton
Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade 1649-1660 by Alice Hunt – England’s brief flirtation with a royalty-free constitution
By Neil Hegarty
Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland - Fierce effort to recover world lost to Famine
By Claire Connolly
Crime fiction: New from Amy Jordan, Vaseem Khan, Kotaro Isaka, Kylie Lee Baker plus 2024′s best American stories
By Brian Cliff and Elizabeth Mannion
Nonfiction books to look out for in 2025: Leo Varadkar and Brenda Fricker memoirs among year’s most anticipated titles
By Martin Doyle
‘Narratively ingenious with gorgeously toothsome art and character design’: The best graphic novels of 2024
By Séamas O'Reilly
Indeterminate Inflorescence by Lee Seong-bok: The record of a craftsman trying to understand their art in real time
By Jessica Traynor
Last lord of Malahide Castle at centre of strange tale that reflects an era when being gay was unacceptable
By Charles Lysaght
Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia by Charles Hecker – Making money in the Wild East
By Seamus Martin
Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together by Michael Morris
By Ian Hughes
Patriot by Alexei Navalny: Posthumous book underlines Putin critic’s final message: don’t give up
By Maurice Casey
Kaput. The End of the German Miracle: Acerbic chronicle of a country’s fall from grace
By Oliver Farry
‘What has you here?’: Eight years dead and safe in a Galway graveyard, yet here Grandad was standing before me
By Nuala O’Connor
