Books

The life of a film intimacy coordinator: ‘Everyday sex doesn’t always have to be bells and whistles’
Sat 21 Jun 2025 at 03:30
Madeleine Keane on books: Oscar Wilde’s reader’s card is ‘uncancelled’ by the British Library, 130 years on
Fri 20 Jun 2025 at 15:30
Krystal Evans’s The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp is a bittersweet excavation of a chaotic childhood
Fri 20 Jun 2025 at 15:30
Historical fiction roundup: Four novels of struggle, loss and intrigue spanning 300 years of history
Fri 20 Jun 2025 at 15:30
Lisa McInerney talks to Rick O’Shea: ‘It starts off as a romp about a horny teenager but the ending just stunned me’
Fri 20 Jun 2025 at 03:30
How Oasis threw a petrol bomb at the British music scene and became the most important band in the world
Fri 20 Jun 2025 at 03:30
Jeremy Renner on his near-death experience: ‘I did not come back from death to suffer’
Thu 19 Jun 2025 at 03:30
Author John Boyne: ‘I agree with JK Rowling, but if I didn’t, I would just keep my mouth shut’
Thu 19 Jun 2025 at 03:30
Paying for the shirt: what football kits reveal about soccer’s filthy money and sportswashing
Thu 19 Jun 2025 at 03:30
From bullied teen with an absent father to Italy’s first female PM: Giorgia Meloni’s rise to right-wing politics in her own words
Wed 18 Jun 2025 at 15:30

Books

Self-sabotage: why you do it and how to stop

Imagining Oz’s Auntie Em as an Irish emigrant in Chicago

Why Russia’s imperial past shapes its present and haunts its neighbours

Dylan Jones: ‘1975 has been demonised, but so much amazing music was made that year’

The life of a film intimacy coordinator: ‘Everyday sex doesn’t always have to be bells and whistles’

Madeleine Keane on books: Oscar Wilde’s reader’s card is ‘uncancelled’ by the British Library, 130 years on

Krystal Evans’s The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp is a bittersweet excavation of a chaotic childhood

Historical fiction roundup: Four novels of struggle, loss and intrigue spanning 300 years of history

Lisa McInerney talks to Rick O’Shea: ‘It starts off as a romp about a horny teenager but the ending just stunned me’

How Oasis threw a petrol bomb at the British music scene and became the most important band in the world

Jeremy Renner on his near-death experience: ‘I did not come back from death to suffer’

Author John Boyne: ‘I agree with JK Rowling, but if I didn’t, I would just keep my mouth shut’

Paying for the shirt: what football kits reveal about soccer’s filthy money and sportswashing

From bullied teen with an absent father to Italy’s first female PM: Giorgia Meloni’s rise to right-wing politics in her own words

RB Egan’s The Landlord is a nail-biting snoop for the mysteries of a secret garden

Caroline O’Donoghue: ‘People talk about the cosiness of Binchy, but I think she was the master of propulsive drama’

Love story of two women aspiring for the stars but whose dreams return to Earth

Bloomsday: Never-before-seen music for key love song in James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ recovered from Titanic wreckage

Fantasy Island is ‘a collection of everyone’s shared experiences, but through their eyes’

‘A poor man’s guitar? No ma’am, it’s a rich man’s ukulele’: The lesser-known Beatles stories that will make you smile

My life in Opus Dei: ‘She put her hand back into the bag, pulling out a metal chain. It looked like something you would put on an animal’

Richard ­Bradford’s The Durrells: The Story of a Family debunks the popular Corfu zoological myth as being ‘made up largely of lies’

Daria Lavelle: ‘There’s just something about a character driven wholly by love that makes him indelible’

Geoff Dyer’s Homework is a witty account of provincial boyhood and thrifty, stoic fathers

Stephen King’s page-turner Never Flinch sees a sober serial killer on the trail of the innocents

Dublin – One City, Many Stories: ‘Joyce’s legacy washes over every writer like the waves at Sandymount’

Romantasy island: ‘I picked up the book, and I became feral! I read the first book in a day, then the second in a day, which is 700 pages. It was intense’

A page-turning rural thriller on the search for truth after daughter’s death at Blarney Castle

Rick O’Shea: Vanished tribal customs, a serial killer sister and other books that vividly evoke Nigeria

The ‘sublime insanity’ of airmen who tried to cross the Atlantic first – inspired by a Dubliner

The real Handmaid’s Tale: a woman’s story of a life of drudgery inside Opus Dei

‘It is the people who generally smell of the museums who are accepted. That is why James Joyce was accepted and I was not.’ Gertrude Stein and her literary rival

Frederick Forsyth, author of ‘The Day of the Jackal’, dies aged 86

Irvine Welsh on his Trainspotting sequel: ‘It is that time of life when they are getting serious about romance. It is an interesting time in the lives of men’

Eamon Carr: ‘Sinéad O’Connor took a handful of crisps and crunched them very loudly into the mic’

The fascinating relationship between Irish writer Mary Lavin and her ‘New Yorker’ editor

Untaxing page-turner from Bill Clinton and James Patterson in their third collaboration

‘The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick’ is a gripping study of the US fight for gay rights

Gaelle Bélem has penned an absorbing, lyrical tale of a botanist and his boy in ‘The Rarest Fruit’

Miriam O’Callaghan’s memoir to be published in October

Rick O’Shea: Addiction and the apocalypse never sounded so appealing

Even the Vikings knew it didn’t pay to smash everything up: what you didn’t know about the economics of war

Ithell Colquhoun’s The Crying of the Wind from 1950s Ireland still chimes with modern matters

Elaine Feeney delivers a moving meditation on enforced female roles in Irish society past and present

Katie Piper: ‘Turning 40 kind of has shame attached to it. For me, 40 represents surviving, still being here, still being alive’

An exceptional and sensitive account of the sad legacy of China’s devastating one-child policy

James Shapiro: ‘I loved books fiercely as a child. I remember when my brother tried to borrow one I bit him and drew blood’

A kinder look at Margaret Thatcher: the lady’s not for turning into a monster

The signings that are a mini-convention –in the six-hour queue with the fans of Skulduggery Pleasant

New crime novels and thrillers to read this June, featuring Stephen King and the final novel from Denzil Meyrick

Notions and necessities: From performance and art events to coffee roasting and personalised jewellery, it’s all here

New Irish Writing: Poetry by Andrew Pelham Burn

New Irish Writing: Dead Man Walking by Steve Wade

John Connolly’s The Children of Eve skillfully explores what happens when good people succumb to temptation

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