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This year’s picks transport readers to mountain peaks, out to sea and back in time

The An Post Irish Book Awards are to name their top prize-winner on December 6, having chosen 20 category winners for 2023.

This year’s picks transport readers to mountain peaks, out to sea and back in time | Culture

Set in Dublin, "Prophet Song" tells the story of a family grappling with a terrifying new world in which the democratic norms they are used to begin to disappear.

'Prophet Song': A study in contemporary literary intensity, the Irish author Paul Lynch's fifth novel wins the 2023 Booker Prize for Fiction.

Rohini Hensman — On October 7, Hamas committed a war crime when in its attack on Israel, hundreds of civilians were killed, but since 1948 the scale of the crimes against the Palestinians repeatedly committed by Israel are many times larger. What can ensure peace in Palestine?

The Israeli state has responded by bombing the Gaza Strip, in which Hamas has its headquarters and over 2.3 million civilians have their homes, starving inhabitants of food, water, medicines and fuel. But why did this happen? And what can be done about it?

The authors of these five books describe the complexity and hardship of women’s lives in Iran

There have been Muslims in West Africa since the XIth century, if not earlier. The region that is now Mali was the center of several famous Islamic empires, notably the Ghana Empire (VIIIth-XIthcentury) (Dieterlen & Sylla, 1992) the Songhai Empire (1464-1591) (Cissoko, 1996), and states established by a succession of jihads led by various Muslim armies.