Book Club

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

Books newsletter: a roundup of the latest news and preview of Saturday’s pages

A chance discovery in a library helped Whitaker overcome the trauma of a brutal stabbing and set him on the path to becoming a writer

The title is a pointed correction of the misnomer ‘the battle above the clouds’, by which the slaughter was known at the time

This list has something for everyone with books covering dystopian realities, historical settings, criminal capers and familiar places

Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages and round-up of the latest news

Prof Shovlin said, ‘Five years feels something like maturity for the prize and we were delighted to see, once again, a very strong field’

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and a previee of Saturday’s pages

This book is as much a celebration of queer joy, as it is an insight into the transgression, trauma and tragedy that shaped queer Ireland over the past fifty years

The editor of the volume, novelist Elaine Canning, has created the first comprehensive guide to O’Farrell’s writings, incorporating the responses of reviewers and a wide-ranging interview with the author herself

O’Higgins was demonised by many who opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty that established the State

At one point Elk notes the gift of being ‘left alone’ at school: ‘I learned pretty quickly that I could be myself and get away with it’

Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Colm Tóibín to do one-off Dingle Lit event

Magisterial accounts of four cataclysmic case studies make this a must for anyone with an interest in ancient and premodern history

In her debut novel, Mackey keeps moving the goalposts in delightfully wicked fashion for readers to catch up

The writer’s latest novel The Horse is his way of trying to figure out his own long-running battle with the bottle

Encore Award shortlist; Cairde and Echoes festival; Saturday’s books pages; Little Island expands

It’s an important reminder that fashion is anything but trivial

Author Sarah Crossan on her pivot from teaching to writing and her latest books on forbidden love affairs and sex dolls