Hilary Mantel

Still Haunted

The Blackwater Lightship

By Colm Tóibín

Ian Sansom

Portrait of the City

Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir

By John Banville

Mary Kenny

Flesh & Blood

Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love

By Fergal Keane

Paul Bew

Sticking Power

Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life

By Malachi O'Doherty

Brenda Maddox

No One Saw Him Paint

Jack Yeats

By Bruce Arnold

David Pascoe

On the Trail of Large Bottoms

James Joyce: The Years of Growth 1882–1915

By Peter Costello

John Sweeney

Damned Rebels

Rebel Hearts

By Kevin Toolis

Damian Thompson

Holy Trail

The Catholics: The Church and Its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day

By Roy Hattersley

Mary Kenny

Joined at the Hip

The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border

By Garrett Carr

Piers Brendon

Portrait of Pum

Gayer-Anderson: The Life and Afterlife of the Irish Pasha

By Louise Foxcroft

Ian McBride

Dublin’s New Dawn

The Irish Enlightenment

By Michael Brown

Florence O’Donoghue

Let the Fools Rage

Yeats the European

By A Norman Jeffares (ed)

Mary Kenny

Of Myths & Martyrs

The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic

By Ruth Dudley Edwards

Edna Longley

Expressing Ireland

The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories

By Benedict Kiely (ed)

Some Irish Loving

By Edna O’Brien (ed)

The Penguin Book of Irish Verse, Second edition

By Brenden Kennelly (ed)

Andrew Roberts

Emerald Guile

Churchill and Ireland

By Paul Bew

Wendy Moore

Hostess with the Mostess

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore

By Julie Peakman

Richard Cobb

I Remember It Well

Playing For Time

By Jeremy Lewis

David Profumo

Life of O’Brien

Flann O'Brien: An Illustrated Biography

By Peter Costello and Peter van de Kamp