{"id":202435,"date":"2025-12-20T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202435\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T19:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:43:14","slug":"rick-osheas-best-books-of-2025-great-reads-you-might-have-missed-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202435\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick O\u2019Shea\u2019s best books of 2025: Great reads you might have missed this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThere are plenty of amazing books, both fiction and non-fiction, that have flown under the radar this year \u2013 here are some of the highlights\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clockwise from right:  Rois\u00edn O\u2019Donnell, Robert Macfarlane, Rie Qudan, Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin and Shane Tivenan. Photos: Ruth Medjber\/William Waterworth\/Julie Broadfoot\/Lilliput\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ff987369-7996-455f-b1ae-3a76f685a2dc.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Clockwise from right:  Rois\u00edn O\u2019Donnell, Robert Macfarlane, Rie Qudan, Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin and Shane Tivenan. Photos: Ruth Medjber\/William Waterworth\/Julie Broadfoot\/Lilliput<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I\u2019m attempting to focus on books that you might not find in other end-of-year lists you\u2019ve seen in the run up to Christmas \u2013 the ones that have possibly not gotten the spotlight and love they deserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Where better place to start than with one of the very first books I recommended here in January?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are plenty of amazing books, both fiction and non-fiction, that have flown under the radar this year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,279],"class_list":["post-202435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}