‘The pull of heroin is so strong, you need some serious consequences’ to get clean irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Aisling Rawle: The Compound novel is ‘dark satire of reality television’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine - a lucid, at times hectoring, short read irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

The Dandy: A People’s History of Sartorial Splendour by Peter K Andersson irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Notes to John by Joan Didion: The posthumous publication of the writer’s psychiatry sessions feels exploitative irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

New Laureate for fiction Éilís Ní Dhuibhne: ‘I was part of a movement of women writers of Ireland’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Four music books chart unconventional lives in the industry irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Poem of the week: No one steps in the same Riviera twice irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Seascraper by Benjamin Wood: An extraordinary evocation of the liminal world between land and sea irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

50 years of women’s writing: The 21st century – a boom time... or is it? irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Translated fiction: convincing first-person narration, personal stories through political turmoil, and sharp but subtle humour irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt: A novel with impressive scope irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Lucy Steeds’ The Artist wins Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

News of the World and An Aran Keening by Andrew McNeillie: Joy and meaning in living and dreaming irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Migraine by Samuel Fisher: A world of pain irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick: ‘With picture books, I’m ruthless, and that has carried over into my novel’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Paschal Donohoe on books that advise how to run our economies and save the planet irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Vona Groarke: ‘The best thing that could happen for Irish poetry is for people to buy poetry books’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Poem of the Week: What I Did on the Sideline irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Books in brief: How pilgrimage has changed; a dentist practising for 700 years; a budding ghost-writer irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books