A Far-Flung Life by ML Stedman: An epic and intimate family saga
Author’s descriptive talent and prose anchor the story in place, a vast sheep station in remote Western Australia
By Julia Kelly
Minor Black Figures: a searingly intelligent critique of contemporary culture
A Rebel and a Traitor by Rory Carroll: Thrilling account of a key figure in Irish history
Helenio Herrera: Football’s Original Master of the Dark Arts
Tayari Jones: ‘I used to be very suspicious of writers who said the story chose them’
Poem of the Week: Hibernia
Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs by Antony Beevor: perhaps a mirror for our troubled times
Enough Said by Alan Bennett: eclecticism of fourth diaries collection ultimately charms
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POETRY
Four Night Seas by Niamh Mac Cabe: A quiet, subtle capturing of cultural identity without resort to cliche
By Lucy Sweeney Byrne
Dolores Keane will forever be the sound of the second time continuity and change coincided in Ireland
By Barry McCrea
Rory O’Connor biography by Gerard Shannon: A rigorous and impeccably balanced portrait
By Andrew Lynch
The Woman in the Water by Henrietta McKervey: Gothic thriller reopens familiar mystery
By Julia Kelly
Fog Bells: A flavour of the depth and richness of the poetry currently being written in Turkish
By Neil P Doherty
Anna Burns: ‘When I got damaged in surgery, nothing else mattered. I’ve always lived in survival mode’
By Martin Doyle
Hotel Exile by Jane Rogoyska: Moving account of ordinary folk caught in second World War
By Pat Carty
Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!: Liza Minnelli sets the record straight in revealing memoir
By Colm McKenna
Seamus Heaney: from ancient Greece to home turf, Northern shades and the Nobel Prize
By Nicholas Allen
