Last year's fashion for book clubs may be receding but as a forum for championing books – and making books popular – there are few current alternatives as successful. Books like The Lovely Bones, The Master and The Kite Runner have a universality that made them ideal club selections. You can picture the publisher's glee when they realise that a book they have is perfect for that market.
In recent years fictional literature has managed to pre-empt the emergence of terrorism as the new global security threat. Caryn James looks at some of the books that have fictionalised the threat.
Aileen Corkery reviews the new publication from the Irish Musuem of Modern Art The Collection
A new book about the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, says the world should be more concerned about Korea's human rights record than their nuclear capability. Joshua Kurlantzick reviews.
Naomi Wolf compares the new Hillary Clinton 'biography' to a new biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, both examples of anti-feminist fiction, linking real political figures to folklore, rather than telling their true histories
Author Tony Corcoran traces the history of the Guinness Brewery and its progressive treatments of its workers, including his grandparents, father and himself, writes John Byrne
Siobhan Parkinson, has joined the ranks of Irish writers for children to be published by a leading British publishing company', in this case Puffin Books who last week launched her new book Second Fiddle.
Fintan O'Toole and Tony Kinsella make the case why Americans shouldn't rule the world, and
why a
stronger
European Union
could stop it. Mary
Van Lieshout reviews
Dan Kissane's take on the leprechaun has little to do with the jolly little man in green, whose iconic status has been enhanced by the dolls on sale in our tourist shops.
Saddam Hussein.Man Booker speculation. Michael Finkel True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa