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Book reviewer ANNA CREER selects her best five reads for 2023.

Born in 1946, John Banville is considered a master Irish novelist and won the prestigious Booker prize for his powerful novel about grief and remembrance, “The Sea,” in 2005. John

In a new novel, “The Lock-Up,” investigators from the novelist’s previous books join forces in 1950s Dublin.

Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane; Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater; The Wintering Place by Kevin McCarthy; Cast a Cold Eye by Robbie Morrison; and The Lock-Up by John Banville

Book of the monthThe Lock-Up by John BanvilleRosa Jacobs, a brilliant but bolshie woman writing a doctorate on the Jewish diaspora in Ireland at Trinity, has be