by Jonathan Irwin with Emily Hourican (Mercier Press, €16.99/£13.50)

by Rónán Johnston (Goodnewsbooks.net/What’s Your Story, price not supplied)

The Lent Factor: Forty Companions for the Forty days of Lent

The Ongoing Present: A Critical Look at the Society and World in Which I Grew Up

Parenting When Separated: Helping Your Children Cope and Thrive

For many people Viking Dublin and Protestant Georgian Dublin, thanks largely to the fierce controversies over the years about their preservation, are more familiar than the long intervening centuries of medieval Dublin, when the capital might be said to have been a truly Catholic though English speaking city. This book is a notable attempt to bridge…

Whenever the question of married priests, women in the Church or even women priests comes up, I often think of the wife of a Church of Ireland bishop, who remarked to me: “I often wonder about the enthusiasm of some Catholics for women in the Church. It’s not much fun being married to a priest.”…

His encounters with Christianity is one of the mysteries of Marco Polo

Pope Francis: Thoughts and Words for the Soul by Jorge Mario Bergoglio ed. by Giuseppe Costa (White Star Publishers, €12.28/£11.50)

The distinguished French novelist was a surprising choice for Nobel prize