In The Irish Times tomorrow, John Banville offers an appreciation of the poet and writer Derek Mahon on his fifth anniversary. Miriam O’Callaghan talks to Laura Slattery about her memoir, Miriam: Life, Work, Everything. Jarlath Regan discusses his new book, The Gobshite Guidebook: A Survival Manual, and his relationship with Ireland with Niamh Donnelly. Liz McSkeane, author of Aftershock, about the 18th-century Lisbon earthquake, comes to the defence of historical fiction. And there is a Q&A with Bernie McGill, who has just donated her archive to Belfast’s Linenhall Library.

Reviews are Kevin Rafter on Miriam: Life, Work, Everything by Miriam O’Callaghan; Kevin Power on Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon; Rónán Hession on Vaim by Jon Fosse, tr. Damion Searls; Declan Burke on the best new crime fiction; Paschal Donohoe on The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong, And What Would Make It Right by David Lynch; Paul Clements on local history books; Houman Barekat on Saltwash by Andrew Michael Hurley; Brigid O’Dea on Aftermath by Bláthnaid Raleigh; Neasa Mac Erlean on Myths and Lies of the Irish Revolution by Colum Kenny; Andrew Lynch on When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows by Steven Pinker; and John Boyne on Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth.

This weekend’s Irish Times Eason offer is Strangers in Time by David Baldacci, just €5.99, a €6 saving.

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