Faber’s new editions come with excellent introductions by Colm Tóibín, Claire-Louise Bennett and Eimear McBride

It takes skill, and even a sense of anarchy, to produce a novel as funny and baffling as this

Senior Nazi Walther Rauff and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s lives were linked by brutality, death and the evasion of justice

Bangor musician maps out the terrain of loss, memory and creative renewal in an imaginative, deeply personal work

Foxglovewise; Kin: An anthology of Poetry, story and art by Women from Romani, Traveller and Nomadic Communities; The Conversation; and But/Through

Are we becoming victims of too much medicine? Are diagnoses doing more harm than good? Those are among the contentious questions addressed with sensitivity in these two valuable books

The warmth of the women’s voices is palpable in a thoughtful study that also addresses the darker side of the migrant experience

Story of Brian Stack’s killing and its aftermath is an important and bleak retrospective on Ireland during the Troubles

Journalist Harris’s swiftly paced memoir was sparked by his son’s autism diagnosis and the discovery of his ecstatic love of music

James Birch and Michael Hodges’ book on London art duo a riotous, rollicking read with swashbuckling rock’n’roll spirit

Reviews of new works from Iain Macdonald; Katie Mishler; Alexander Clapp; Heather Parry; Clive Webb; and Sharon Guard

The book tackles dark subject matter with moral precision and a surprisingly keen sense of humour

Published entries written as a series of fragments, chosen for ‘muscle’ and lightly edited

These brilliant short stories share deep resonances of theme and method

Exceptional novel falls loosely into the category of ‘auto-fiction’ and features the author’s father

A resource to return to time and again, a guide to understanding Ireland’s past and present, its people and land

Including story collection Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons, and Yu Hua’s engrossing novel City of Fiction

Three ambitious new books - by Tim Jackson, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, and Diane Coyle - examine the failures of liberal democracy, and how we can chart a course to a better future

Bite-sized reviews of new work by Biddy McLaughlin, Katharina Volckmer, Asne Seierstad, Barbara Kingsolver, Marni Appleton and Eimear Chaomhánach

This vibrant book includes reflection on nationalism in small countries, as well as a compelling analysis of Plaid Cyrmu’s role in a changing Wales

Leppin’s instinct for scholarly rectitude is evident on almost every page

An energetic ragtime with a memorable cast of characters and some sharp asides

It feels as if the book has been reverse-engineered as a container for an academic field trip

Nobel prize-winning author’s latest novel is about three friends growing up in Zanzibar

Two books ask important questions about how our attention is manipulated and monetised

Historical novel based on one day in 1895 features anarchists, artists and aristocrats

Debut novel tackles big themes with wit and precision

Vivid and important collection of essays that corrects the caricatures and shows the value of public servants

Murder at Gulls Nest; After the Party; There Came A-Tapping; One True Word; The Inalienable Right

A mixed-bag on purpose, the volume spans prose, poetry and drama then looks at the new in an uncertain era of change

Latest work from the author of Assembly is part literary thriller and part state-of-the-nation novel

Lost Gaels by Peader Thomspson; The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club by Richard Foster; Sweet Vidalia by Lisa Sandlin

A welcome antidote in a media landscape that profits from distressing imagery and trauma-dumping about racism

Eighteen interlinked tales exploring all manner of troubles and unravellings, from tired marriages and adult children to retirement

Irish Northern Aid and how Irish Americans engaged with the conflict in NI

Including The Gnome Book by Loes Riphagen, After by Pádraig Kenny and more

Overblown riffing in the writing makes this book feel indulgent – the antithesis to Cohen’s songcraft

Schaap was 39 when her husband, Frank, died on Valentine’s Day

As a portrait of an intellectual awakening – this memoir stands as a classic

The daughter of the Limerick man killed by Molly Martens and her father gives her side of the story in a powerful, heart-breaking read

Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai; I Am the Cage by Allison Sweet Grant; Every Borrowed Beat by Erin Stewart; Pieces of Us by Stewart Foster; and Stealing Happy by Brian Conaghan

The late Donal McCann, one of the giants of Irish stage and film, looms large

I’m willing to overlook the author’s refusal to name his two male protagonists, who end up in an sexual relationship neither anticipated

New works from Lesley Downer, Anthony Canavan and Yaroslav Trofimov

Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster

Book explores what Palestinians have lost since their displacement

McCaulay possesses a Steinbeck-like social awareness of injustice and prejudice

The Belfast author’s writing demonstrates an ongoing commitment to working-class and queer representation

Sittenfeld captures what it is to be a fairly comfortable white woman in the American Midwest

No surprise that the film rights have been snapped up by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine