A critique of Communist triumph and its human cost, from the civil war to early statehood

Tracing the creation of Europe’s first designated urban quarter and the bleak reality for those who lived there

Novel speaks to our current moment of data-harvesting taken to extremes and the kind of dud seances which Big Tech proports to offer via its ghoulish ‘grief avatar business’

The Truth About Ruby Cooper by Liz Nugent; Witch Trial by Harriet Tyce; Maneater by Ellie Graves; The City in Year Zero by Michael Russell; and Astronaut! by Oana Aristide

Author’s descriptive talent and prose anchor the story in place, a vast sheep station in remote Western Australia

Acclaimed author Brandon Taylor’s new novel is less romance novel and more dissection of art in the age of identity politics

Author expertly arranges a huge range of characters and locations in absorbing story about Roger Casement

A riveting ride both on and off the pitch, beautifully crafted and impressively researched

A dual examination of the decline of imperial Russia and the backdrop against which Rasputin’s influence was enabled

Diaries are notable as the internal record of a thinking, feeling person behind the icon

These strange, yet strangely familiar short stories encapsulate the distinctive Irishness of the rural west

Beneath the Cedar Tree by Frank Shouldice; How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley; Wise: Finding purpose, meaning and wisdom beyond the midpoint of life by Frank Tallis

Rory O’Connor: To Defend the Republic shows why Irish republican deserves recognition for his turbulent life

Inspired by Rebecca, this novel explores themes of duty, reputation and female autonomy

Allen examines ageing, illness and the enduring light of Heaney’s poetic world

What’s most striking about a book ostensibly about celebrating women’s freedom is its utter joylessness

In Costello’s novel the protagonist looks back on her life in an effort to determine ‘why we do what we do, or tolerate what we tolerate, or love who we love’

Clíodhna O’Sullivan’s debut novel, Her Hidden Fire, and new books from Kristin Dwyer, Emiko Jean, Billy Ray and Luke Palmer

New releases cover examination of early economic nation building, the discoverer of DNA helix and an on-point spoof of contemporary culture

There is an uncanny timeliness in the appearance of this title, as the failings of American governance that Baldwin so clinically described once more cast a dangerous shadow

Rogoyska's Hotel Exile opens in 1933 as German undesirables flee west from the Nazi scourge

US actor and singer’s frankness about addiction, fame and ageing is refreshing

The third iteration in Scratch Books’ Reverse Engineering series features a star-studded cast

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth

Tree Thing by Piers Torday; That’s It! Said the Dandelion by Nicola Reddy; and more

A reissue of a trilogy of books by Derry-born Joyce Cary, who is part of that tradition of Irish writers - Wilde, Shaw, Bowen - who set about explaining the English to the English

Development of rising nations has become the cause of Great Power antagonisms

After Butter’s global success, Yuzuki examines female friendship, modern isolation and the pressures of perfection

A Dublin 4 version of Rebecca’s Manderley that’s delightfully sinister in its well-heeled hypocrisy

New collections from Gerry Smyth, Cathy Galvin, Catherine Ann Cullen and Matthew Rice

The actress writes candidly about her anxiety, disordered eating, perfectionism and the quiet belief that she was somehow undeserving of kindness

Bluff by Francine Toon; Like Family by Erin White; The Last Witch on the Knock by Aimée MacDonald

Two of the British writer’s best works, The Bottle Factory Outing and An Awfully Big Adventure, are republished this month

Theodor Meron’s A Thousand Miracles: From Surviving the Holocaust to Judging Genocide

A novel that follows Julie MacDermott on her return from ‘The Mental’, to which she was committed by her spouse

Dublin-born writer returns with a novel pairing philosopher’s teachings with intimate, often devastating, story of a teacher and student

Both humans and birds are the victims of systems and philosophies run amok in this novel about an English scientist studying the last of a dying species

Author critiques the Enlightenment’s dark side in this accessible, engaging and illuminating history

The bestselling author turns his attention to the mysteries of awareness and perception

Works by Yuliia Iliukha, Artem Chapeye, Antoine Volodine, Eduardo Halfon, Julia Franck and Elisa Shua Dusapin

Stowaways by André Aciman; The Connemara Sea-Trout Fisheries by Paddy Gargan; Keshed by Stu Hennigan

Through family stories and personal recollections, Baconi explores the complexities of Palestinian identity and belonging in exile

The prevailing dream-like atmosphere of this book is compelling

A rigorous, passionate and thoroughly bleak analysis of global finance’s dark underbelly

A meticulously researched historical novel that captures the beauty, danger, and politics of Tibet in 1869

Michael Loughman’s James Ryan and the Development of Independent Ireland, 1892-1970 is an eminently readable biography of an unjustly neglected politician

Pádraig Lenihan’s outstanding new book includes events and figures seared into Ireland’s collective historical and cultural memory

Broad scholarship still reflected in stylishly produced journals across the country

This book is, for want of better phrasing, a bit too well-written. There’s virtually nothing to be thought or said about it

An understated story in which the echoes of shared trauma cascade through the years