Yael van der Wouden and Rachel Clarke win Women’s Prizes
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Inside the Stargazer’s Palace by Violet Moller: A front seat at the birth of science
The author draws a broader picture that examines not only well-known individuals but also the wider culture
By Rachel Ashcroft
Did nobody actually read this book before it went to print?: The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Reading Ulysses: Splendid literature that can suck the life out of you and your family
Our Song by Anna Carey: A romantic and heart-warming love story
Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86
Sally Hayden on We Came By Sea: Stories of a Greater Britain - ‘It feels comforting and right to have a writer of Clare’s skill turn attention to this topic’
Strange new worlds and a summer camp murder: YA reads for June
Writer Orlaine McDonald: ‘I felt a strong need to transcend that little working-class girl who had got herself up the duff’
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Thomas Mann’s 150th birthday present to Germany and the world: a warning from history
By Derek Scally
Best Friends by Andrew Meehan: Engaging, witty and charming septuagenarian love story
By Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
Sarah Maria Griffin: ‘I will be trying to figure out what the internet means to me for the rest of my life’
By Martin Doyle
The Sleep Room by Jon Stock: Could an Irish version of this frightening scandal in British psychiatry yet emerge?
By Paul D’Alton
Death In Derry - Martin McGuinness and the Derry IRA’s War Against The British: Strong on candour, weak on analysis
By Malachi O'Doherty
This Interim Time by Oona Frawley: Moving essays by the daughter of Irish actors in New York
By Jessica Traynor
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid: An imperfect addition to the lesbians-in-space genre
By Naoise Dolan
