In Ballymun, a rare plant complicates a football club’s ambitions
Its discovery is holding up an expansion, the club’s secretary says. But there should be a way it can happen, while keeping the plant safe, an ecologist says.
A burnt-out journalist witnesses a murder near the graves of two exiled taoisigh in Rome in an impressive thriller marrying modern corruption with early Christianity.
This imaginative noir comedy novel follows a misanthropic PI around Ireland – and is built on in-jokes, literary allusions, and puns on Irish language place names and orthography, writes our reviewer.