New collections from Gerry Smyth, Cathy Galvin, Catherine Ann Cullen and Matthew Rice

The actress writes candidly about her anxiety, disordered eating, perfectionism and the quiet belief that she was somehow undeserving of kindness

Bluff by Francine Toon; Like Family by Erin White; The Last Witch on the Knock by Aimée MacDonald

Two of the British writer’s best works, The Bottle Factory Outing and An Awfully Big Adventure, are republished this month

Theodor Meron’s A Thousand Miracles: From Surviving the Holocaust to Judging Genocide

A novel that follows Julie MacDermott on her return from ‘The Mental’, to which she was committed by her spouse

Dublin-born writer returns with a novel pairing philosopher’s teachings with intimate, often devastating, story of a teacher and student

Both humans and birds are the victims of systems and philosophies run amok in this novel about an English scientist studying the last of a dying species

Author critiques the Enlightenment’s dark side in this accessible, engaging and illuminating history

The bestselling author turns his attention to the mysteries of awareness and perception

Works by Yuliia Iliukha, Artem Chapeye, Antoine Volodine, Eduardo Halfon, Julia Franck and Elisa Shua Dusapin

Stowaways by André Aciman; The Connemara Sea-Trout Fisheries by Paddy Gargan; Keshed by Stu Hennigan

Through family stories and personal recollections, Baconi explores the complexities of Palestinian identity and belonging in exile

The prevailing dream-like atmosphere of this book is compelling

A rigorous, passionate and thoroughly bleak analysis of global finance’s dark underbelly

A meticulously researched historical novel that captures the beauty, danger, and politics of Tibet in 1869

Michael Loughman’s James Ryan and the Development of Independent Ireland, 1892-1970 is an eminently readable biography of an unjustly neglected politician

Pádraig Lenihan’s outstanding new book includes events and figures seared into Ireland’s collective historical and cultural memory

Broad scholarship still reflected in stylishly produced journals across the country

This book is, for want of better phrasing, a bit too well-written. There’s virtually nothing to be thought or said about it