I’ll Drop You A Line: A Life With David Marcus by Ita Daly (Londubh Books. €14.99)

Signatories edited by Lucy Collins (UCD Press, € 20.00)

Books over the centuries have taken many forms. Indeed some kinds of books do not have to have any narrative to be most revealing. I came across one of these a little while ago in an Oxfam shop, a green cloth-bound item for which I see I paid 39 cents. The title page revealed that…

Saint Oliver Plunkett: Journey to Sainthood by Tommy Burns (St Oliver Plunkett for Peace and Reconciliation Committee, €10.00)

C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity: A Biography by George M. Marsden (Princeton University Press, £16.95)

I Was a Boy in Belsen by Tomi Reichental (O’Brien Press, €11.99)

The Curious Fox by Ross McDonagh, illustrated by Conor M. O’Brien (Veritas, €8.99 / £6.99)

James Joyce’s talented cousin

Ever Seen a Fat Fox? Human Obesity Explored by Mike Gibney (UCD Press, €20.00)

Naturama: Open Your Eyes to the Wonders of Irish Nature by Michael Fewer, with illustrations by Melissa Doran (Gill Books, €22.99)