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The schedule details new novels by Sebastian Barry, Louise Kennedy, Barbara Kingsolver, Marlon James, as well as biographies such as Vincent Browne's Haughey portrait. Highlights include the end of Trilogy with Days Without End, a story set amid post civil war America, Victoria era, an alternative history of Oscar Wilde, a return to Faha with Niall Williams, and a collection from Eoin McNamee. The final work by Ciaran Carson mixes memoir with speculative fiction.
Novel s by Sebastian Barry, Louise Kennedy, Barbara Kingsolver and Marlon James; Nikita Hand tells her story, Vincent Browne’s Haughey biography – and much moretrilogy begun with Days Without End, winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017, followed by A Thousand Moons .
Against the rapidly shifting landscape of post civil war America, Tennyson Bouguereau – freed man, devoted brother, nascent singer, conflicted soldier and wanted man – journeys to find meaning and belonging, first in Nashville, then in Victorian England. . If the Troubles was the backdrop to the doomed love affair in her debut, emigration, addiction and a broken family frame the central relationship in Stations. Róisín and the troubled Red meet as teenagers in their small hometown in 1982.
She follows him to London but their lives move in different directions. is an alternative history in which Oscar Wilde avoids jail and disgrace and goes on to grace the first half of the 20th century with his wit. by Niall Williams returns to Faha, Co Clare, the setting of his previous novels, This Is Happiness and Time of the Child.
Bat Considine and his neighbour Mossie Crowe sit by the fire and wait to see which will die first. But Bat makes a discovery that changes this routine forever. I Am Not an Alcoholic: The anger never lasted long - but the consequences didby Eoin McNamee is a complete collection of the Co Down writer’s shorter fiction, published in one volume for the first time.
McNamee, widely regarded as the finest stylist of his generation, is best known for Resurrection Man, The Bureau and The Blue Trilogy. is the final work by the late Ciaran Carson – a fusion of memoir, ghost story and speculative fiction that pushes his lifelong preoccupations with memory, time and perception into audacious new territory. Rome, 1819.
Irish artist Amelia Curran encounters the dazzling, volatile Shelleys – Mary, her mercurial husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and her stepsister Claire Clairmont – and is drawn into a world shimmering with genius. But shadows lie behind the glamour.by Roisin Maguire , when corporate interests threaten a nearby island colony of rare birds, all-weather swimmer Grace is alarmed to find that her allies in the fight are the Duckie Divers Swimming Club, city women with expensive gear and good intentions.by Vincent Browne is the long-awaited biography of one of the most controversial and influential figures in modern Irish politics by one of Ireland’s leading journalists.
Browne is also the subject of another book,by Kevin Rafter , which profiles the influential current affairs magazine he founded.
, Maureen Gaffney brings together research, a lifetime of observation and her own personal experience to explore how to stay resilient, purposeful and fully engaged with life when the world feels increasingly unstable.by Mary Kennedy invites us to rethink what it is to age – personally, socially and spiritually.by Derry international footballer James McClean promises to pull no punches, about politics, sport and his personal life.by Peter O’Mahony promises to be everything the Munster and Ireland rugby player was on the pitch: frank, combative, self-critical, wholehearted and first rate.by novelist Louise O’Neill is a candid, courageous exploration of modern womanhood, sexual freedom and the myths we’re sold about what makes a life worthwhile.by Nikita Hand is the story of a woman reclaiming her power – a first-hand account of survival, defiance and her successful civil case against one of the world’s most powerful sportsmen, Conor McGregor, over a brutal, life-changing assault.by William Keohane explains how gender transition doesn’t happen in a clinic, nor does it unfold in a straight line.
For the author, it is a journey mapped across words, names, and the Irish landscape.by Frank Shovlin is the definitive biography of Ireland’s greatest postwar writer, rich in dramatic revelations bringing to life the world that inspired his work.left off, recalling formative scenes from the popular radio presenter’s adolescence and early adulthood in a rapidly changing Ireland of the 1970s and 1980s.by Margaret Kelleher is a chronicle of quiet friendship, romantic bonds, a long-standing marriage, and a fruitful intellectual partnership.by Trinity College Dublin professor Darryl Jones is a biography of the greatest of all ghost story writers.by Dónal Gallagher is a biography of Ireland’s greatest blues guitarist by his devoted brother.
by former Irish Times editor Conor Brady offers a critical analysis of the state of the nation and argues that there is a need for radical reform of the State’s political and administrative structures. A case in point might beby Paul Cullen , the definitive account of Ireland’s most expensive and controversial public project, the national children’s hospital.
Or Lorcan Sirr’sa sweeping history of Irish housing – not just as architecture or policy, but as a battleground for identity, power and belonging. Paul Cullen, author of Billion Dollar Baby: The Inside Story of the Hospital that Broke the Budget. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw For nearly three decades, Joe Duffy sat behind the mic as host of RTÉ’s Liveline, the radio show that became the Republic’s ’s national sounding board.
takes readers inside the studio and beyond, sharing the stories, voices and moments that defined a generation.by Clíodhna Ní Anluain tells the story of how Ireland’s national broadcaster grew from its first transmission in 1926 into a powerful cultural force that has shaped the country’s identity, voice and shared experiences across generations.by Emma Gilleece travels across Ireland’s early- to mid-20th‑century modernist landmarks.by Michael Cronin invites readers to reconsider Ireland as an island shaped – culturally, politically and ecologically – by the seas that surround it.by the late Manchán Magan explores how ancient Irish culture retains deep resonances with other indigenous world views – a way of perceiving land, language, nature and spirit as inseparable.by Kerby A Miller and Breandán Mac Suibhne is an illustrated book featuring more than 60 letters – short and long – written by Irish emigrants to North America from the early 1800s to the mid-1900s, giving heart-rending insight into the Irish emigrant experience.by Carlo Gébler is a document of artistic obsession and a confrontation with mortality, a humane memoir of a writer’s decline and death by her son and fellow writer.
Long defined by message control and secrecy, Sinn Féin has rarely allowed outsiders a glimpse behind the curtain,by Siobhán Fenton , its former communications adviser and party spokesperson, is therefore a unique insight into its inner workings. Drawing on his unique experience as the founder of two internet start-ups, Storyful and Kinzen, and working with Twitter and Spotify,by Mark Little charts the rise of the attention economy and the relentless pursuit of scale that fuelled the toxic algorithms, hate, misinformation and division of today’s online world.by Colin Graham traces connections across his childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and tells the story of his fractured relationship with his father.
, a thrilling, moving novel about a young man on an amphetamine-fuelled cross-country road trip fleeing the Vietnam draft. is Min Jin Lee’s follow-up epic to the hugely successful Pachinko. John and Helen Koh and their three children are building new lives in Korea when their world is upended, first by a terrible betrayal and then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis, forcing them to emigrate.by Sarah Moss .
On Christmas Eve, in a hotel on Ireland’s west coast, a man and a woman meet for the first time. As a snowstorm gathers, they share a meal, pour wine, swap confessions.by Rebecca F Kuang is a coming-of-age literary novel of first love and loss by the bestselling author of Yellowface.by Emma Cline is a portrait of an ageing man’s last pilgrimage, from the bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest.
, the story of a young man whose life is turned upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world. by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, follows the citizens of mythical Primeval, its fields and forests bounded by two rivers, the world beyond nothing more than a dream. Yet their stories – or Times – are a microcosm of the world’s tumultuous recent history.
is Emily St John Mandel’s story of crimes committed and loves lost. It is 2031. America is at war with itself, but there is hope: the Republic of California has been declared, the curfew in Los Angeles is lifted, and everyone is going to a party.
is Marlon James’s triumphant return to the Jamaica of A Brief History of Seven Killings – a place of heat and chaos, and of danger for anyone outside the heteronormal.by Rose Tremain , glamorous young writer Daphne du Maurier visits Manderville Hall to research her new novel, where she begins a clandestine and intoxicating affair with the housekeeper.by Naomi Alderman is an original and moving novel that blurs the lines between fiction and reality, inviting us to reconsider what it means to be human.by China Miéville is a sprawling saga of the bloody 20th century, and the intimate story of two lives, their loves, regrets and secrets – and a terrifying journey into infinite mystery.
by Kate Atkinson, bestselling author of Life After Life, is a witty historical novel about the Festival of Britain. , John Green artfully blends a behind-the-scenes love story with an examination of the private cost of a public life, in this tale of two young people figuring out who they are, both together and alone.by Madeline Miller is the story of the daughter of the King of Thessaly, who is able to metamorphose into any being she can imagine.
Her father, on the other hand, is cursed with an unnatural, insatiable hunger. , Barbara Kingsolver’s follow-up to Demon Copperhead, is a coming-of-age narrative and an examination of midlife hopes and regrets. Unmoored by her brother Cyrus’s death, Livia’s only solace is music.
A scholarship offers escaper from the farm, then along comes a man.is a luminous reinvention of Gustave Flaubert, told through the eyes of the women – real and fictional – who shaped him: a devoted nursemaid, an Egyptian dancer and a passionate, jealous lover who refuses to be forgotten. is her long-awaited sequel to the bestseller The Time Traveller’s Wife, a kaleidoscopic story of love, resilience and hope when time is running out.
From Susanna Clarke, the bestselling, prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting and haunting illustrated short story full of medieval magic,, a historical epic, following two extraordinary musicians on the rise, Irish pianist John Field and Adelaide Percheron from Pondicherry, French India.by Jonathan Coe is the story of the unlikely cross-channel friendship of French composer Maurice Ravel and British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.by Karl Ove Knausgaard is a novel about impossible love and impossible life, about ships of the dead, fire and ice, dizzying starry skies and a man trying to find his foothold in the world.
, whose subtitle The End of Reading and the Dawn of a Post-Literate Society sums up the Times columnist’s apocalyptic message. by Michael Lewis, bestselling author of The Big Short, is described as a wild ride through the destruction of the American government and the unsung heroes who tried to stop it.
Former BBC Moscow Correspondent Martin Sixsmith analyses the increasing parallels between Trump’s America and Putin’s Russia inby Anthony Scaramucci , Trump White House insider turned host of the hit podcast The Rest Is Politics: US, sets out the desperate state of the nation and suggests a way out.by Gideon Rachman considers what its subtitle sums up as The Breakdown of International Order and the Threat of World War Three.by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor identifies a new, apocalyptic alliance of religious fundamentalists, billionaire Silicon Valley tech kings and ethno-nationalists and shows us how to resist it.
, Owen Jones takes us on a journey to show how the West went from scoring what it believed was its final victory, to being engulfed in an existential crisis of its own making, from Afghanistan and Iraq to the economic crash of 2008 and Gaza today.by John Sweeney levels grave charges that the man behind Brexit is not a fit and proper candidate to become prime minister or anywhere near power.
Delving into her own experience over two decades of reporting on politicians up close – from the financial crash to Brexit and the revolution of social media – BBC presenter Laura Kuenssberg explores today’s stark political truths inby Chernobyl author Serhii Plokhy draws on new archival research, following the threads of the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in May 1981 into the corridors of the Kremlin and the Vatican, and through the inner circles of Turkish ultranationalists, KGB functionaries and Sicilian mafiosi.by Ben Macintyre is the remarkable, unknown cold war story of how one spy saved the world from nuclear war.by Katherine Rundell is a pocket-sized celebration of animals that we should all treasure, from the author of The Golden Mole and Impossible Creatures.by Gillian Anderson , sequel to her bestseller Want, invites us to leave shame and fear at the door as she dials up the heat on women’s sexual fantasies and dares us to want more.by Adolescence actor Stephen Graham and psychologist Orly Klein , an honest and moving collection of letters.by feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem ;by Britain’s foremost television writer Russell T Davies ;The Season thus: “I’m trying to write about footy and my grandson and me.
About boys at dusk. A little life-hymn. A poem. A record of a season we spend together before he turns into a man and I die.
” by Edmund de Waal, bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes, is about finding a creative voice and becoming an artist via a startling rediscovery in his family archives of letters between his grandmother and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Betrayal by Luke Harding: A colourful, entertaining take on Trump, Russia and UkraineTimor Mortis: How We Live with Death.
A clarification of what truly mattersIrish woman named as Spanish police await postmortems on couple found dead in hot tubDaisy Johnson: ‘I like writing about the entanglements of family’Electric Picnic 2026 in pictures: Rain-soaked Friday features mud, an open-air swim and a wedding
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