Munichs by David Peace: This towering requiem about the Manchester United aircraft disaster is a masterpiece irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Moira Buffini: ‘I’ve had this love affair with Ireland, and for a long time I just it was unrequited’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

The Voyage Home by Pat Barker: An epic domestic drama amid the pointless machinations of war irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Bella Mackie: ‘I used to have a game with my family where we would talk about the perfect way to murder someone’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Ireland must ‘resist assaults on nuance’ in assessing its past, historian says irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers: Extraordinary insights into so-called ordinary lives irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Arts Council to gift books to inmates in 13 prisons across country on Culture Night irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Eimear McBride returns with new novel irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Charting a way forward for James Joyce studies irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

The Shaking Bog: a festival where art and nature meet irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Mother State: Care scrutinised as an explicitly political and public act irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Chernobyl Roulette - A War Story, by Serhii Plokhy: Gripping and unsettling account of Russian misadventure irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke: A case that changed the history of transplant surgery in the UK irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd: Compelling thriller set in the murky underworld of the cold war irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Poem of the Week: Back to School irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Our London Lives: a masterful work full of skilful nuance and profound truth irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020 by Diarmaid Ferriter - A hugely valuable exploration of a rollercoaster time irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

How rugby became an Irish game: From niche unionist sport to a world-class contender irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading by Sam Leith - monumental and invigorating irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

How to Be a Citizen by Cindy L Skach: Has too much law withered democracy? irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books