Book Reviews A - Z / Author / Book Title

A

Adyashanti - The Way of Liberation

Allende, Isabelle - A long petal of the sea

The wind knows my name

Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations

B

Balls, Richard - A Furious Devotion: The authorised story of Shane MacGowan

Barrett, Colin - Wild Houses

Barry, Kevin - The Heart in Winter

Bennett, Britt -The Vanishing Half

Bingham, David - Effortless Being

Boyle, Mark - The Way Home: Tales of a life Without Technology

Boyne, John - All the Broken Places

Water

Earth

Bregman, Rutger - Utopia for Realists

Byrne, Gabriel - Walking with ghosts: A memoir

C

Cain, Susan - The Power of Introverts

Caldwell, Lucy - These Days

Calidas, Tamsin - I am an Island

Campbell, Julieann - On Bloody Sunday

Carse, David - Perfect brilliant stillness - beyond the individual self

Carson, Jan - The Raptures

Quickly, while they still have horses

Catton, Eleanor - Birnam Wood

Clarke, Susanna - Piranesi

Connolly, Cressida - Bad Relations

Connelly, Michael - The Dark Hours

The law of innocence

Fair warning

Desert Star

Resurrection Walk

Connolly, Billy - Windswept and Interesting - My Autobiography

Connolly, John - The Black Angel (Charlie Parker #5)

Coogan, Steve, Gibbons, Neil & Rob - Big Beacon, A lighthouse rebuilt, a broadcaster reborn - Alan Partridge

Crewe, Paddy - True Love

D

Dalton, Trent - Boy Swallows Universe

De Tores, Francesca - Saltblood

Delaney, Rob - A heart that works

Delaney, Tish - Before my heart actually breaks

Dickey, Suzanne - Tennis Lessons

DiLullo, Angelo - Awake: It’s your turn

Doidge, Norman - The brain that changes itself

Du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca

E

Easton Ellis, Brett - The Shards

Eddo-Lodge, Reni - Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race

Enright, Anne - The Wren, the Wren

Erdrich, Louise - The night watchman

Erichsen, Daniel - Set it and Forget it: Are you Ready to Transform Your Sleep?

This is Natto - Are you ready for the journey within?

Erskine, Wendy - Dance Move

Home Sweet Home

Everhart, Donna - The Saints of Swallow Hill

F

Fagan, Jenni - Ootlin

Fitzsimmons, Olivia - The quiet whispers never stop

Foley, Lucy - The Paris Apartment

The Midnight Feast

Ford, Richard - Let me be frank with you

Be Mine

Frantzen, Jonathan - Crossroads

G

Gallen, Michelle - Factory Girls

Good, Michelle - Five Little Indians

Greene, Graham - The end of the affair

Gresham, William Lindsay - Nightmare Alley

H

Haig, Matt - The Midnight Library

Hari, Johann - Lost Connections

Stolen Focus - Why you can’t pay attention

Harper, Jane - The Survivors

Exiles

Harwood, Robert - Pouring Concrete: A Zen Path to the Kingdom of God

Hertz, Noreena - The lonely century: How to restore human connection in a world that’s pulling apart

Hession, Rónán - Leonard and Hungry Paul

Horowitz, Anthony - Magpie Murders

Moonflower Murders

I

Ishiguro, Kazuo - Klara and the sun

J

Jónasson, Ragnar - Winterkill

K

Kacenberg, Mala - Mala’s cat - A memoir of survival in world war 2

Kalanithi, Paul - When breath becomes air

Keegan, Claire - Small things like these

Foster

King, Stephen - Billy Summers

Fairy Tale

Holly

If it Bleeds

You Like it Darker

Kingsolver, Barbara - Demon Copperhead

Koike, Ryunosuke - The Practice of Not Thinking

Kolker, Robert - Hidden Valley Road: Inside the mind of an American family

Kreuger, William Kent - Ordinary Grace

Kuang Rebecca F. - Yellowface

Kukafka, Danya - Notes on an Execution

L

Lanegan, Mark - Sing Backwards and Weep

Le Carré, John - Tinker, tailor, soldiers spy

Lee, Byddi - Rejuvenation (Book 1)

Lee, Min Jin - Pachinko

Leendertz, Lia - Almanac 2023

Lefteri, Christy - Songbirds

Lehane, Dennis - Small Mercies

Lier Horst, Jørn - The Night Man

Lindeblad, Björn Natthiko - I might be wrong

Lloyd Parry, Richard - Ghosts of the tsunami

Lockwood, Patricia - No one is talking about this

Lynch, Paul - Prophet Song

M

MacAnulty, Dara - Diary of a Young Naturalist

MacFarlane, Robert - Underland: a deep time journey

Magan, Manchán - Thirty two words for field: Lost words of the Irish landscape

Magee, Audrey - The Colony

Magee, Michael - Close to Home

Maharshi, Ramana & David Godman - Who am I?/Be as you are

Mandel, Emily St John - Station Eleven

The Glass Hotel

Sea of Tranquility

Mannix, Kathryn - Listen: How to find the right words for tender conversation

Marshall, Tim - Prisoners of Geography

The Power of Geography

Mason, Daniel - North Woods

May, Katherine - Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times

McCartney, Paul - The lyrics: 1956 to the Present

McDonnell Capossela, Francesca - Trouble the Living

McKay, Susan - Northern Protestants on Shifting Ground

McKinty, Adrian - The Island

McConaughey, Matthew - Greenlights

Millar, Ali - The last days

Min Sterling, Michelle - Camp Zero

Mitchell, David - Utopia Avenue

Moore, Liz - God of the Woods

Moreno Garcia, Silvia - The daughter of Doctor Moreau

Murphy, Gráinne - Winter People

Murray, Paul - The Bee Sting

N

Nealon, Louise - Snowflake

Nestor, James - Breath - The new science of a lost art

Neville, Stuart - Blood Like Mine

Ní Dochartaigh, Kerri - Thin Places

Nisargadatta, Sri Maharaj - I Am That

Nolan, Megan - Ordinary Human Failings

Nugent, Liz - Strange Sally Diamond

O

O’Connell, Mark - A Thread of Violence

O’Connor, Joseph - My Father’s House

O’Connor, Sinead - Rememberings

O’Donohue, John - Anam Cara

O’Reilly, Seamus - Did ye hear mammy died?

O’Sullivan, Katriona - Poor

P

Patchett, Ann - Commonwealth

Bel Canto

Pen, Paul - Desert Flowers

Pfeijffer, Ilja Leonard - Grand Hotel Europa

R

Radden Keefe, Patrick - Say Nothing - A true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland

Rogues - True stories of grifters, killers, rebels and crooks

Empire of Pain: The secret history of the Sackler dynasty

The Snakehead

Rooney, Sally - Beautiful world, Where are you?

Ryan, Donal - The Queen of Dirt Island

Ryan Howard, Catherine - The Nothing man

The Trap

S

Sancton, Julian - Madhouse at the End of the Earth

Sanders, George - Lincoln in the Bardo

Scarlett, Fiona - Boys don’t cry

Singer, Michael A. - The Untethered Soul

Spira, Rupert - Being aware of being aware

Starr, Larry - Listening to Bob Dylan

Storr, Will - The Science of Storytelling

Stuart, Douglas - Shuggie Bain

Young Mungo

T

Thich Nhat Hanh - The Art of Living

Tóibín Colm - Long Island

Tolle, Eckhart - The Power of Now

Stillness Speaks

Towles, Amor - Rules Of Civility

A Gentleman in Moscow

Table for Two

U

Umar, Ousman - North to Paradise

W

Wade, James - Beasts of the earth

Walsh, Colin - Kala

Wharton, Edith - Ethan Frome

Williams, Paul - The Monk

Winn, Raynor - The Salt Path

Winters, Ed - This is vegan propaganda (and other lies the meat industry tells you)

Y

Yanagihara, Hanya - To Paradise

A Little Life

Z

Zevin, Gabrielle - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow