Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Typhoons and tantrums – how Francis Ford Coppola survived an Apocalypse
Book Reviews
Sandra Newman’s feminist retelling of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is bold but bungled in parts
Book Reviews
A treasure trove of wonderful books awaits our younger readers from tots to teens
Book Reviews
Terry Hayes is back with a gripping and unusual spy thriller

The end of the world is nigh and full of heavy-handed symbolism
Sat 02 Dec 2023 at 03:30
Sarah Webb on the top 20 Irish kids’ books of 2023
Sat 02 Dec 2023 at 03:30
How drugs ruined Sly Stone’s career and this frustrating story of his life
Wed 29 Nov 2023 at 03:30
The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel culture does exist — and no one is immune
Tue 28 Nov 2023 at 03:30
‘As if the whole country had stopped to listen.’ How The Gay Byrne Show transfixed a nation
Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Peter Swanson’s Christmas novella is funny, clever and gripping – with twists that will blow you away
Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Paul Auster’s Baumgartner is slender and surprising
Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 03:30
William Faulkner’s fever dream Stories of the Deep South is a fine riposte to sceptics
Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Micheline Sheehy Skeffington’s tale gives hope to female academics everywhere
Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Karen Powell brings Emily Brontë’s disdain and devotion back to life
Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 03:30

Book Reviews

Typhoons and tantrums – how Francis Ford Coppola survived an Apocalypse

Sandra Newman’s feminist retelling of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is bold but bungled in parts

A treasure trove of wonderful books awaits our younger readers from tots to teens

Terry Hayes is back with a gripping and unusual spy thriller

The end of the world is nigh and full of heavy-handed symbolism

Sarah Webb on the top 20 Irish kids’ books of 2023

How drugs ruined Sly Stone’s career and this frustrating story of his life

The Canceling of the ­American Mind: Cancel culture does exist — and no one is immune

‘As if the whole country had stopped to listen.’ How The Gay Byrne Show transfixed a nation

Peter Swanson’s Christmas novella is funny, clever and gripping – with twists that will blow you away

Paul Auster’s Baumgartner is slender and surprising

William Faulkner’s fever dream Stories of the Deep South is a fine riposte to sceptics

Micheline Sheehy Skeffington’s tale gives hope to female academics everywhere

Karen Powell brings Emily Brontë’s disdain and devotion back to life

Capital’s many faces brought to life in eclectic collection of stories

Liz Nugent: ‘I am more than happy to sit with the crime family’

Blindboy Boatclub: ‘We can trace Christianity’s sexual morality to St Augustine’s torment. He’d be a pure melt if he were alive today’

Gin-swilling whores and pacey page-turners in this selection of 1960s classic crime fiction

Trope of the fat cat barrister shattered with stories of the soul-sapping daily grind

Naturalist and writer Michael Viney bequeaths us an enriching parting gift

Political prisoners may pay price, but two books reveal Vladimir Putin’s perilous path

Dr Marie Cassidy diagnoses yet another murder mystery – with her debut novel

Humphrey Jervis, The Wide Streets Commission and the making of modern Dublin

How Churchill’s dream of killing communism sank in the Russian snow

Horrors of Mao’s China serve as a warning for today

Matt Cooper shows how foreign property investors made a killing and asks: would we miss them?

Dolly Alderton’s insightful take on break-ups and being single again in your 30s

‘They found every part of him except his brain – we had no corpse’

‘My being is actually fidelity. All those whom I have grown fond of in some way, I am faithful to afterward’ – the remarkable life, and loves, of Ingmar Bergman

New Yorker’s David Remnick gets an ‘access all areas’ pass to revisit Springsteen, Dylan and Cohen

Mike McCormack’s metaphysical thriller is a slow burn into the past’s shadowy hinterland

John Boyne’s Water is a scorching, devastating tale of the evil men do

Roisin Meaney charts discontent and drama in A Winter to Remember

How Marvel went from struggling toymaker to one of cinema’s biggest players

With his enjoyably bonkers thriller, Michael Caine has begun a promising new career aged 90

Blindboy’s oddballs and dreamers treated with compassion and a dash of divilment

Is Finland real? Who better to find out than the man who used to shout into a giant mobile phone on TV

Ian O’Doherty: Tackle! is the first Jilly Cooper novel I’ve read. I sincerely hope it’s the last

Britney Spears memoir is as messy as her cage was gilded – and all the more insightful for it

Karen Perry’s nail-biting noir sees youthhood secrets threaten modern-day domestic bliss

Flawed romance novel is Good Material for a study in male friendship

The CIA’s secret sisterhood is no sugar-coated fairy tale in Liz Mundy’s expert interrogation

Sky Sports veteran opens a window on his transfer mania

Words to swear by and language that sentences you to damnation

‘Indomitable Irishry’: How Yeats helped radicalise Ireland — and vice versa

A Guinness guru’s search for plain perfection

Who broke Britain? Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and too many culprits to make us care

The billionaire twins ‘obsessed with secrecy and avoiding tax’

New crime novels and thrillers to read this November, featuring Terry Hayes, Seraina Kobler and HB Lyle

Heartbreaking, beautiful account of life with the enigmatic Marian Finucane

Sinister teen tale a wise choice for adults, too

Conflict, Diaspora, and Empire is a groundbreaking study of how Ireland won freedom

Jon Fosse’s A Shining is an illuminating introduction to the new Nobel laureate

Dawn French memoir is a hilarious clarion call for us to be more imperfect

The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel culture does exist — and no one is immune