Fascinating on family and drive, not so forthcoming about Ireland’s recent successes and failures

Releases include Night People: How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City; Blitz: The Club That Created the 80s and more

Allen’s flat prose serves as a mechanism to take us from one lengthy dialogue sequence to the next

Markovits crafted a softly radiant jewel with protagonist who is shrewd, funny, wounding and infuriating

Delaney explores how we thought, spoke and felt was radically transformed from the 1780s to 1916

Late Learner by Ciara Geraghty; The Living and the Dead, Tales of Loss and Rebirth from Irish Nature by Conor W O’Brien; Fieldnotes from Celtic Palestine by Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost

Bleak yet comforting book captures perfectly that damp, decaying feeling of Irish countryside winter

The in-depth story of London’s housing crisis is very relevant to Ireland

Donegal-born writer Liam Cagney finds meaning, exile and joy on Berlin’s dance floors

Low strips away the myth of marriage as a natural haven for ambitious women in this exhilarating read

New book gives surprising insights on the political battle between Haughey and FitzGerald

A new English edition of Shaw’s memoir reveals how she became a household name in Berlin with a children’s classic

Wang rejects western analysis that China’s authoritarian system will prevent it achieving tech supremacy

Behind the art-world lampooning lies a portrait of the creative mind

Is this a Banvillean supreme fiction as of old, or a luxury entertainment of the Benjamin Black school? Why not both?

Desai returns to the most radical ambition of novels: making the complexity of other lives shareable

The Irish Times columnist reflects on farming roots, newsroom dramas, and the cost of nostalgia

Brenda Fricker has written an unsentimental, brilliant and often shocking memoir

A book of two halves – and the part where he ceases to be Cat Stevens is the better one by far

Was Zappone more effective as an insider than as an activist? The answer is not always clear