With the help of booksellers and festival directors, Aoife Barry picks the best of this year’s fiction, non-fiction and short stories

SEÁN CARLSON <br> Frawley revisits memory to anchor her love and affection for each of her parents as she knew them. With precision and tenderness, she flits between their real and imagined pasts, her...

Sarah Moss, Joseph O’Connor, Wendy Erskine, John Banville, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and other authors and reviewers choose their top reads for the holidays

Rooted in the writer’s own experience, this collection offers the intriguing viewpoint of a person neither truly here nor there

As both her parents are now dead, Frawley feels able to tackle the thorny subject of her father’s alcoholism, his struggles as an actor, and her mother’s reasons for enduring dysfunction for so long

I was overwhelmed by questions, including: how many people speaking does it take to articulate a human being?

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