Obsessive cleaning and cynicism about designer brands are elements of this debut about a Palestinian woman

The occasional misfires in this collection are easy to overlook amid so many delightfully comic stories executed with precision and care

An informative and eminently readable work about an undefined but important role in Irish public life

Brendan O’Leary gets to grips with John Wilson Foster’s collection of essays

Former Garda John Sweetman looks back on his career, both as a mule and a member of the Garda Technical Bureau

Peter van Agtmael’s unsettling photographs portray the misery and horror of violent conflict

Hannah Regel’s debut novel is wrought with tenderness and a buoyant light touch

Second novel from the author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein focuses on three sisters

Despite plot holes, this novel is worth persevering with

Author’s playful sense of humour adds levity to this moving and uplifting book

Bill Broady’s vignettes use sharply observant but compassionate caricature to illuminate the UK’s political past

Abbey Lea: A Killiney History; Hardiman & Beyond: The Arts & Culture of Galway since 1820; Armagh: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23; and much more

Posthumous book explores the post-9/11 years in the Middle East, setting his reporting against the background of centuries of meddling by western powers

This book is not perfect but it will well wroth reading, not least for its crackling dialogue, jet-black humour and characters that are memorable and complex

This is an enjoyable read in the same vein as the author’s best-selling debut, but there is a lingering sense that she is playing it safe

Bodies moves away from its realist literary opening into something approaching horror but ends up being a lot of fun

Also reviewed: Clete by James Lee Burke; ; Anna Pitoniak’s The Helsinki Affair; Eli Cranor’s Broiler; and Havoc by Deborah J Ledford

This book, the culmination of a very personal mission, is based on detailed research and, although it does not engage with some of the wider contextual questions posed of the IRB, is valuable and often insightful

A litany of accusations and snide remarks, with no genuine insight into the dynamic between the couple

Maylis Besserie’s novel lays bare the cruelty of Bacon’s father as seen through the eyes of the family’s domestic servant Jessie Lightfoot

This long book has a narrative that zips along in pacey, filmic beats, flowing seamlessly between genres

This knowledgeable companion can be leaned on when a question arises in conversation or a fact needs to be checked

Max Hastings offers a thrilling account of a daring raid to steal German radar technology in 1942

A novel set on a US college campus, focusing on a course in stand-up comedy, with powerful scenes

This infuriatingly brilliant novel gets swallowed up in its scaffolding

This piece of autobiographical fiction provides an understanding of China during a crucial period but the author does not fully meet high ambitions

A bright, bold story of the bonds of friendship between women, of a passing on of kindness, and of memory

Haidt invites us to consider the many harms of the Great Rewiring in terms of the ‘opportunity cost’ of near total immersion in a virtual world

Look out also for a breezy page-turner about promoting artists such as Paul McCartney and David Bowie; and a work featuring a world of wonder around Britain most famous recording studio

New novels by Kara A Kennedy; Bea Fitzgerald, Sarah Street, Leanne Egan and Maggie Horne

The eminence of Stiglitz is due to the range of his writing and academic excellence. This was recognised in a Nobel Prize for research on the impact of information on the operation of markets

Creaking under its own weight, at half the size this could have been twice as powerful

Environmental writer uses her late middle age to offer perspectives on future prospects fraught with uncertainty

Reviews of new works by Bob Cryer, Helen Lederer and Julia Alvarez

A raw, genre-hopping romp through the styles of personal memoir, parenting and relationships manual, and feminist manifesto

Though the tone is light, this study of the creation of currency is serious and the academic rigour is clear

A timely piece of work, scrupulous in endorsing only facts and analyses for which the author can find first-hand evidence

Making extensive use of archives, the author gives fresh details of what was going on behind the scenes during pivotal moments in 20th-century history

Conor Gearty explains how terrorism is a noxious concept and the global north’s obsession with it deeply unhealthy

Reviews of The Day Before, Of Shards and Tatters, Three Births and The Palace of Forty Pillars

The judgments of 15 writers on an eventful run of Conservative governments are nearly always brutal

Reviews of new works by Owen O’Neill, Kathy Lette and Mahmoud Darwish

The legacy of Dockrill’s young adult writing career is evident in chirpy proses that brims with exclamation marks, superlatives and capitalisations

The novel sets out to dismantle the gender binary while also dissecting it, all the time riffing with energy and insight on nostalgia

A cold novel, then, but one that will remain with John Boyne

This autobiographical work is raw but never self-indulgent, moving but never maudlin

Two new books, Selected Stories and A Cage Went in Search of a Bird, make the case for reading the worst of Franz Kafka afresh

An honest and droll memoir from the top-ranked Irish male player in decades

Harrison conjures a malignant universe of betrayals, fights and even sado-masochism

Stories, observations and conversations overlap in this mind-bending book