Catholic Primary Education in a Pluralist Environment by Anne Hession (Veritas, €14.99)

To Live in the Love of God: A Guide to Prayer by parishioners of Kirkinriola Parish, ed. Fr P. Delargy  (Ballymena Parish Centre, £5.00) This book is an unusual effort by local people from an Ulster parish to answer the question: “Do you want to discover the truth and be a good person and make others…

Shackleton’s Boat: The story of the James Caird by Harding McGregor Dunnett (Collins Press, €12.99)

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The New Threat from Islamic Militancy by Jason Burke (Bodley Head, £16.99)

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, with John and Elizabeth Sherill  (Hodder & Stoughton, £7.99) This is a famous book, written with two American journalists, first published in 1971, which has already had wide circulation. However, it has been reissued now because it contains a description of life in Ravensbrück, one of the holocaust…

Father Browne’s Dublin Photographs 1925-1950 edited by E. E. O’Donnell SJ (Messenger Publications, €14.99)

The Blue Guitar by John Banville (Penguin Viking, £12.99)