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Best crime fiction: A fascinating new detective and a poison pen letter to Los Angeles irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Best crime fiction: A fascinating new detective and a poison pen letter to Los Angeles

Gripping new works by Dervla McTiernan, Jess Kidd, Chris Brookmyre, Michelle McDonagh and Jordan Harper

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Author Keith Ridgway: ‘Dooneen is the most beautiful place on Earth, as far as I’m concerned’ irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Author Keith Ridgway: ‘Dooneen is the most beautiful place on Earth, as far as I’m concerned’

The celebrated Irish author writes about the ‘wonky Dublin’ he has written about in Dooneen, his latest novel

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Walter Benjamin by Peter Gordon: A compelling read irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Walter Benjamin by Peter Gordon: A compelling read

A new biography of a significant 20th-century philosopher

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Blasket Bound by Lesley Bond: Ancient place seen from a new perspective irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Blasket Bound by Lesley Bond: Ancient place seen from a new perspective

The author and her husband were selected to be the island’s first caretakers in 2019

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After the Fall by Ian Shapiro: Thought-provoking guide to how the world got into this mess irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

After the Fall by Ian Shapiro: Thought-provoking guide to how the world got into this mess

The path that led to Donald Trump and current crises was forged decades ago by the missteps and missed opportunities of other leaders

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Growth, Democracy, or Climate Action? The New Political Trilemma of Advanced Capitalism irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Growth, Democracy, or Climate Action? The New Political Trilemma of Advanced Capitalism

A well-debated book that draws the reader in

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Poem of the Week: On the Rough River Path irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Poem of the Week: On the Rough River Path

A new work by Moya Cannon

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Irish Anthropocene - Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty: Meditation on words and nature irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Irish Anthropocene - Literature, Climate Change, Sovereignty: Meditation on words and nature

Tracing the path of a global issue through accomplished writers

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American Hope by Christopher Lamb: Is Leo the right pope at the right time? irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

American Hope by Christopher Lamb: Is Leo the right pope at the right time?

Lamb’s enlightening book prompts optimism

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Trinity graduate wins Women’s Prize for Fiction irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Trinity graduate wins Women’s Prize for Fiction

Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages

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Anna Llewellyn wins Caterpillar Poetry Prize irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Anna Llewellyn wins Caterpillar Poetry Prize

A man teaching the birds to sing captivated this year’s judge

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People Like Us by Julie Parsons: A life formed around a deeply personal mystery irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

People Like Us by Julie Parsons: A life formed around a deeply personal mystery

This nonfiction outing is a story of loss and of the tightly interconnected milieu of the south Dublin Protestant

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Portaloos signposted as lavatories? Sold out lobster bisque? It can only be Borris Festival irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Portaloos signposted as lavatories? Sold out lobster bisque? It can only be Borris Festival

The annual Borris festival of Writing and Ideas brings leading writers, thinkers and entertainers together in Co Carlow

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Unmasking Samantha Cookes: Superb exposé of a spiralling conwoman irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Unmasking Samantha Cookes: Superb exposé of a spiralling conwoman

Bradley writes brilliantly, setting out the facts with the poise of a forensic investigator and the pacing of a thriller writer

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Novelist Niamh Campbell: ‘The Dublin of 2015 was so full of optimism. Bit by bit it got harder to stay’ irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Novelist Niamh Campbell: ‘The Dublin of 2015 was so full of optimism. Bit by bit it got harder to...

The award-winning author – whose new novel Make Strange is out now – on motherhood, publishing and making a living from fiction

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Whistler by Ann Patchett: a lesser-told love story between step-parents and stepchildren irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Whistler by Ann Patchett: a lesser-told love story between step-parents and stepchildren

Ultimately Whistler itself is a testament to the transformative power of storytelling

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Patrick Freyne: The true and wonderful weirdness of Dubliners always surfaces irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Patrick Freyne: The true and wonderful weirdness of Dubliners always surfaces

My favourite form of reporting is not the celebrity interview or political profile; it’s approaching ‘people’ in ‘places’ and asking them questions about ‘stuff’

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Summer reading hitlist: New novels, classics and nonfiction books recommended by writers irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Summer reading hitlist: New novels, classics and nonfiction books recommended by writers

Gripping thrillers, sport memoirs and the best recent fiction to pack in your holiday suitcase

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Land review: Breathtaking epic marks Maggie O’Farrell as a daring chronicler of 19th century Ireland irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Land review: Breathtaking epic marks Maggie O’Farrell as a daring chronicler of 19th century Ireland

Hamnet author’s 10th novel urgently and passionately maps historical change driven by famine, emigration, language loss, secularisation and much more

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Dooneen: In Keith Ridgway’s retrofuturistic Dublin, the housing crisis plays out with deadly consequences irishtimes.com/culture/books… via @IrishTimesBooks

Dooneen: In Keith Ridgway’s retrofuturistic Dublin, the housing crisis plays out with deadly...

Compelling novel about hope, dereliction and the unmercifulness of privilege is set in a city that is both recognisable and weirdly unfamiliar

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