Friedrich Nietzsche: Saol agus Smaointeach as, by Diarmuid O Grainne (Coisceim, £3)

It is only right that a short biography of Nietzsche should be totally engaged with his philosophy. It is also fitting that some of the thinking of the man who saw himself as the best writer of German since Heine should be captured in some of the best prose being written in Irish today. O Grainne has both style and passion, as well as an instinct for important detail, making this an excellent and uncompromising introduction to the philosopher who drew the ultimate conclusions from romantic individualism.