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There’s nothing inevitable about unification, especially when the UK needs Northern Ireland as a defence asset

Seven-strong shortlist of boundary-pushing books ranges from an Arctic coming-of-age novel to nonfiction about the IRA’s Brighton bombing

Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages and round-up of the latest news

TONY RENNELL reviews the years most compelling history books, including Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn And The Marriage that Shook Europe and Rory Carrolls Killing Thatcher.

Whether youre buying for somebody else or treating yourself, books are a great gift option. Here are tips for some of the best from 2023 

Andrew Motion Something old made new: The Iliad in Emily Wilson’s muscular and moving new translation, the first by a woman, is truly what it claims to be – a version for our time (Norton, £30). And something new made immediate: Hannah Sullivan’s second collection of poems, Was It For This (Faber, £12.99), ambitiously extends

A harrowing account of the abduction of Don Tidey by the IRA 40 years ago effectively merges anecdote and the bigger picture

Author Andrew Child, the brother of Lee Child, is currently reading Killing Thatcher, by Rory Carroll. He says that Small Pig ,by Arnold Lobel first gave him the reading bug.

In 1984, a massive explosion rocked the Grand Hotel in Brighton, where the Tory party conference was being held.

The first of our two-part series of recommendations for your summer reading