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Graham Norton’s novel Home Stretch was perhaps the most-popular book, or at least the most borrowed, amongst the adult rural readership of County Cork in 2023.

Graham Norton’s novel Home Stretch was perhaps the most-popular book, or at least the most borrowed, amongst the adult rural readership of County Cork in 2023.

A preview of Saturday’s books pages and a round-up of the latest literary news

A preview of Saturday’s books pages and a round-up of the latest literary news

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Run And Hide by Pankaj Mishra and Outside, The Sky Is Blue by Christina Patterson.

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesey No 1 for second year

The Perfect Lie is out now, published by Quercus SHES one of Irelands most prolific crime writers and within the first 10 pages of her latest novel The Perfect Lie, Jo Spain raises readers heartbeats as they follow the life of Irish émigré Erin Kennedy. Having moved to New York five years ago following a family tragedy, Erins fortune changed when she met her now husband, police detective Danny. The pair live happily in the idyllic seaside town of Newport, Long Island. But when Erin answers t...

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Perfect Lie by Jo Spain and Circus Of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal.

Books to look out for in 2021 Irish fiction New work that has been a long time coming generates a particular shiver of anticipation. Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Her publisher says: “An exquisite wintery parable, Claire Keegan’s long-awaited return tells the story of a simple act of courage and tenderness, in the face of conformity, fear and judgment.” Small Things Like These...

Art imitates life and the novels of 2021 confirm just how true this is. Writers, like everyone else, found themselves confined this year and the result is the recurring leitmotif of family, pervading almost every fiction genre from crime to coming-of-age novels, from historical fiction right through to dystopia. Here are some examples from the leading titles of the new year. January Billy OCallaghans Life Sentences (Jonathan Cape) is a family saga sweeping from famine Ireland right through to ...