All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class by Tim Shipman (William Collins, £25)

Creating Space: The Education of a Broadcaster by Andy O’Mahony (Liffey Press, €22.95)

The World of Books

“A Failed Political Entity”: Charles Haughey and the Northern Ireland Question 1945-1992 by Stephen Kelly (Merrion Press, €24.99 pb / €75.00 hb)

Aristotelian Interpretations by Fran O’Rourke (Irish Academic Press, €29.99)

Sacred Space: The Payer Book 2017 edited by the Irish Jesuits (Messenger Publications, €11.99)

The Passion and the Cross: Daily Reading for Lent by Ronald Rolheiser  (Hodder & Stoughton, £7.99) The season before Christmas may seem an odd time to bring out a book for Lent, but publishers move in mysterious ways. This is the cheaper paperback edition of a book that appeared last year. The author is the…

St Francis Uncensored by Patrick Noonan OFM   (Choice Publishing, €10.99; visit www.choicepublishing.ie) Since the election of the present Pope there has been an increase of interest in St Francis himself. But over the centuries the saint has become covered up with the sort of sentimental piety that obscures the real man and his associates,…

Great Irish Lives: Obituaries of Ireland’s Finest edited by Charles Lysaght (Times Books / HarperCollins, £12.99)

Open Hearts, Open Arms: Welcoming Migrants to Ireland by Alan Hilliard (Messenger Publications, €3.99)