In The Irish Times this Saturday, there is an essay by Audrey Molloy about her new poetry collection, Fallen. Ben Elton talks to Paul Howard about his memoir, What Have I Done? Jung Chang tells Denis Staunton why she cannot return to her native country under Xi Jinping, how her view of Mao changed, and why she does not see the Communist Party as a monolith. There is a Q&A with Anna McPartlin about her latest crme novel, The Silent Ones. Claire-Louise Bennett tells Edel Coffey about her new novel, Big Kiss, Bye-Bye. There is an extract from Midwinter: A Journey Through a Season by Michael Harding. And children’s author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers discusses his Irish identity.

Reviews are Colm Tóibín on the Complete Poems of Seamus Heaney; Roe McDermott on Femonomics by Corinne Low; Catherine Taylor on the best new fiction in translation; Michael Cronin on Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett; Ruby Eastwood on Buckeye by Patrick Ryan; Sinéad Gibney on Homesick by Peter Apps; Barra Roantree on The Bailout Babies: How Ireland’s Financial Crash Reshaped the Next Generation - and What It Means for the Future by Adam Maguire; Éilís Ní Dhuibhne on Midwinter by Michael Harding; John O’Donnell on Cloud Nine by Conor Murray; NJ McGarrigle on Old Parish by Ciaran Murphy; Andrew Lynch on Guinness: A Family Succession by Arthur Edward Guinness; Oliver Farry on Fractured France by Andrew Hussey; and Peter Murphy on Berghain Nights: A Journey Through Techno and Berlin Club Culture by Liam Cagney.

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