New children’s book tells a simple story while new memoir and novel share vivid stories
Recent books in brief
Category: Reviews
Each one of us is called
‘Becoming the Presence of God. Contemplative Ministry for Everybody’ by Michael Ford (Columba Press, €14.99)
Murder, suicide and disability rights
Brendan O’Regan
New series ‘Unforgotten’ hits all the right notes while ‘Wallander’ and ‘Right Hook’ deals with “heavier stuff”
Do depressed people have the right to die?
Aubrey Malone
The meanings behind the film ‘Me Before You’ (12A)
Comic book sleuths dice with death in ‘retro’ romp
The Nice Guys (15A)
Crime is figuring large in the media
‘Engaging’ crime debates dominated last week’s viewing, highlighting the ‘suffering’ local community, writes Brendan O’Regan
The many sides of an Irish intellectual
The Lives of Daniel Binchy: Irish Scholar, Diplomat, Public Intellectual by Tom Garvin (Irish Academic Press, €24.99 pb / €70.00 hb)
Writers rereading the Rising
In The Wake of The Rising: A Special edition of The Stinging Fly edited by Sean O’Reilly (Issue 33, Volume Two, €15)
Sidelights on Dublin’s long history
Heraldic Dublin – The Three Castles of Dublin: An Eclectic History of Dublin through the Evolution of the City’s Coat of Arms by Michael English (Four Courts Press for Dublin City Council, €29.95)
Real life at the local level
Gowran, Co. Kilkenny 1190-1610: Custom and conflict in a baronial town by Adrian Empey The middle class of Callan, Co Kilkenny 1825-45 by Pierce A. Grace Crime in the city: Kilkenny in 1845 by Fergal Donoghue (Maynooth Studies in Local History / Four Courts Press, €9.95 each)