Peter Hegarty Trees and forests are the leitmotivs in a collection of elegant, informed essays each of which explores JRR Tolkien’s extensive imaginarium from a different perspective.  As Tolkie, whose work was permeated by the culture of early medieval England, was perhaps the mostly widely read Catholic author of recent times this book, though academic…

Peter Costello considers ‘continuation novels’

A Heart So Big, by Rio Hogarty with Megan Day (Penguins Ireland, €8.99 / £6.99)

The Francis Factor: A New Departure

Peter Costello examines two literary Popes

The Wildflowers of Ireland

Columba McCann is currently the Master of Ceremonies for the Archbishop of Dublin. So he is in charge of the very grandest of religious ceremonies to be seen from time to time in the capital. But this book has another audience in mind, those working at the parish level to enhance the experience of the…

Raising Children in a Digital Age, by Bex Lewis (Lion Hudson, €9.66/£8.99)

St Patrick and the Bloodline of the Grail