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Irish Bardic Poetry and Rhetorical Reality, by Michelle O’Riordan, Cork University Press, 455 pp, €55.00, ISBN: 978-1859184141 There’s an odd European country which loves to...

Stalin’s Wars: from World War to Cold War, 1939-1953, Yale University Press, 496 pp, £25, ISBN: 978-0300112041 With Stalin’s Wars, Geoffrey Roberts offers the reader a classic...

Windows on the World, by Frederic Beigbeder, Fourth Estate, 320 pp, £9.99, ISBN: 978-0007184699 Falling Man, by Don DeLillo, Picador, 256 pp, £16.99, ISBN: 978-0330452236 A...

Nomad’s Hotel: Travels in Time and Space, by Cees Nooteboom, Vintage Books, 240 pp, £7.99, ISBN 978-0099453789 It may be something of a miracle that...

Map-Making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland c. 1530-1750, by William J Smyth, Cork University Press, 640 pp, €69, ISBN:...

Wiktor Osiatyński Poland appears a prosperous country. New construction sites loom over the cities and the price of apartments soars. The roads are full of...

Avec Camus, by Jean Daniel, Gallimard, 158 pp, €9.50, ISBN: 2070781933 In August 1944, as General Dietrich von Choltitz defied Hitler's orders to burn Paris and...

Europe East and West, by Norman Davies, Jonathan Cape, 352 pp, £20.00, ISBN: 978-0224069243 In 1994, in Vrhpolje in western Slovenia, some twenty-five kilometres from the...

Brian Lynch’s subtle first novel, The Winner of Sorrow, is based on the life of William Cowper, a hugely acclaimed poet in late eighteenth century England whose work has gone into neglect in the last hundred years.

The War for Muslim Minds, by Gilles Kepel, Harvard University Press, £10.95, ISBN: 067401992X In February 1945, President Franklin Roosevelt, returning from the Yalta conference...