Brian Rowan's compelling book on recent Ulster politics, Political Purgatory: The Battle to Save Stormont and the Play for a New Ireland, reflects his very good access to wide-ranging actors, and also his strong grasp of the messy intricacies of politics in the North.
A short story extract from the new collection by Ethel Rohan, In the Event of Contact (Dzanc Books).
Welcome to the start of a shiny new month! As usual, First Flush lists all Irish-published and Irish-related books, from fiction, to children's, to non-fiction.
Backlist Beauties - books from the backlist that publishers and booksellers love. Next up, Upperdown by David Brennan (Époque Press)
Deirdre Cartmill from Moy in Co. Tyrone is Belfast Cathedral's first Writer in Residence.
Howth is the setting for a new speculative novel featuring a man who wakes up on a park bench in Howth and nobody knows who he is.
Books and discussion are the focus of July events at the Linen Hall Library.
On 7 July Irish crime writer Richard O’Rawe talks about his new thriller Northern Heist;...
A limited, special edition of The Magician, by Colm Tóibín can be pre-ordered from Kenny's Bookshop, Galway.
Philip Ó Ceallaigh has kept his readers waiting for a decade for a new collection. The wait has been worth it. Eoghan Smith reviews the Trouble, published by The Stinging Fly.
The Secret Bookshelf
JO ZEBEDEE on the life and love of running an independent bookshop in Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim.
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