The Glass Cage by John Healy: Stunning record of a life
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This is a library where the books won’t be read until 2114
Inside the silent chamber of the Future Library, in Oslo, unpublished manuscripts by some of the world’s most celebrated writers are being sealed away for a century
By Bernadette Fallon
Brian Cowen: Anatomy of a Taoiseach - A ‘political life’ with little on the life of the politician
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Author Bonnie Garmus: ‘I’ve gotten so many death threats. The Andrew Tate crowd is alive and well’
Fiction in translation: from inner conflict in Ukraine to a Norwegian descent into madness
John McGahern, A Writing Life: Biography of literary giant who understood the human condition
The Boy by Mark Gyves: Promising underworld premise diluted by attention to detail
John McPhee: Encounters in Wild America; Hemingway Knows Nothing; Ninety-Two: A Life in Football Grounds
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Ply by Hernan Diaz: Sci-fi thriller and philosophical treatise a marvel of breadth and concept
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X + Y = K by Ciaran Carson: Excellent examination of reality in the context of art and war
By Dean Fee
Doom Painting by AK Blakemore: A dense, finely crafted narrative of the Peasants’ Revolt
By Helena Mulkerns
This Cursed Beautiful Land review: Evan Gershkovich tells his story of imprisonment in Russia
By Sally Hayden
The Weight of Angels by John Boyne: What if Oscar Wilde had lived long beyond his 46 years?
By Laurie Hertzel
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