Ghost Month by Simon Wroe: Odd, thoughtful inquiry into possibility of living alongside loss – The Irish Times
Ghost Month Author: Simon Wroe ISBN-13: 9780571394708 Publisher: Faber & Faber Guideline Price: £16.99; 416pp In the film…
Stealing Hitler’s Rocket: Thoroughly engaging story of frantic race to smuggle out a V-2 – The Irish Times
Stealing Hitler’s Rocket Author: Guy Walters ISBN-13: 978-1035910854 Publisher: Head of Zeus Guideline Price: £25; 304pp On July…
The History of the World in 12 Soccer Matches: Players become spectators of the social upheavals surrounding them – The Irish Times
The History of the World in 12 Soccer Matches Author: Stefano Bizzotto Translated by Will Scott ISBN-13: 9781685892296…
New books for August – Alan Opts Out, Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir and Four Terrible Parents – The Irish Times
Alan Opts Out by Courtney MaumJohn Murray, 342pp, £20 American Maum used to work in marketing, driving around…
Signals by Saira Hameed: Hooray for hormones – The Irish Times
Signals: The Inside Story of Our Hormones Author: Saira Hameed ISBN-13: 978-0571389773 Publisher: Faber & Faber Guideline Price:…
Translated literature: From a harsh and hilarious epic set in Apachería to a portrait of Toronto – The Irish Times
Mexican author Álvaro Enrique writes historical novels that are at once powerfully illuminating and playfully metafictional. His previous…
The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne: Sympathy for the metal – The Irish Times
The Beautiful Death of Ozzy Osbourne: How Metal Teaches Us to Live Author: Keith Kahn-Harris ISBN-13: 978-0008819804 Publisher:…
The Ballad of Ronan McCoy by Colin Morgan: An empathetic and thoughtful debut from actor – The Irish Times
The Ballad of Ronan McCoy Author: Colin Morgan ISBN-13: 978-0-00-876508-8 Publisher: HQ Guideline Price: £16.99 Colin Morgan’s debut…
Somewhere by Jessamine O’Connor: An addict’s life in an elliptical Dublin – The Irish Times
Somewhere Author: Jessamine O’Connor ISBN-13: 978-1-84351-979-9 Publisher: Lilliput Press Guideline Price: €16.95 Somewhere opens with Clodagh in sunny…
The Inside Story of the Irish-Dancing Cheating Scandal – The Irish Times
Dirty Dancing: The Inside Story of the Irish Dancing Cheating Scandal Author: Ellen Coyne ISBN-13: 978-1804582893 Publisher: Gill…
Medical memoir aims to entertain but lacks nuance – The Irish Times
Bodily Fluids: Five Decades of Blood, Phlegm and Bile on the Hospital Frontline Author: 978-1-78563-431-4 ISBN-13: Liam Hughes…
traumatic Spanish Civil War impact captured – The Irish Times
What We Tried to Bury Grows Here Author: Julian Zabalbeascoa ISBN-13: 978-1-911710-29-5 Publisher: Seven Stories Guideline Price: £12.99…