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In The Irish Times on Saturday, Michael Connelly tells Fiona Gartland about his new thriller, The Proving Ground. There is an extract from Terry Prone‘s new memoir, I’m Glad You Asked Me That: The Political Years. Donal Fallon, social historian to Dublin City Council Culture Company, and presenter of the Three Castles Burning podcast, discusses his new book, The Dublin Pub. Carl Kinsella talks to Patrick Freyne about his first book, At Least it Looks Good from Space: A Catalogue of Modern, Millennial and Personal Catastrophes. And there is a Q&A with Chloe Michelle Howarth about her award-winning debut Sunburn and her new novel, Heap Earth Upon It.

Reviews are Christopher Kissane on Making Ireland Modern: The Transformation of Society and Culture by Enda Delaney; Tony Clayton-Lea on the best new music books; Mícheál McCann on the best new poetry collections; John O’Donnell on The Only Way I Know by Andy Farrell; Padraic Fogarty on Green Crime by Julia Shaw; Catherine Toal on Aftershock by Liz McSkeane; Neasa MacErlean on 1929: Inside the Crash by Andrew Ross Sorkin; Lucy Sweeney Byrne on The Four Spent the Day Together by Chris Kraus; Mei Chin on The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits; Donald Clarke on What’s With Baum? by Woody Allen; Mark Hennessy on Political Change across Britain and Ireland, edited by Paul Gillespie et al.; and Thomas Fitzgerald on Where Love and Imagination Colour the Dark: Essays on Thomas Kinsella.

This weekend’s Irish Times Eason offer is The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, just €5.99, a €6 saving.

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Niamh Connolly, a debut novelist from Cork and winner of last year’s Women’s