The Splendid Years: The Memoirs of an Abbey Actress and 1916 Rebel by Máire Nic Shúibhlaigh with Edward Kenny, edited by David Kenny (Dublin: New Island Books, €15.95)

Irish Adventures In Nation-Building by Bryan Fanning (Manchester University Press, £18.99)

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…

The Bethany We Know: Exploring Relationship in the Company of Jesus by Penny Roker RSM (Veritas, £12.99)

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)

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)