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Take heed, there's a fresh new voice in literary fiction. A moving debut novel, Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary is the story of Sonny, a teenage boy looking for love in all the wrong places.

New year, new you. Gym regime, healthy eating goals and outdoorsy stuff. But first, TV. Here's my top three TV shows this January worth staying in for.

All We Shall Know (Transworld Books) by Donal Ryan is a modern masterpiece of Irish storytelling. Melody Shee falls pregnant by a young traveller boy and this sets in motion a series of life-changing consequences for the thirty three year old teacher. A thoroughly convincing female-driven narrative, Ryan's first novel told from a female narrator's perspective is as gut-wrenchingly Irish as it gets. Read my five-star review here.

Everyone's obsessed with the new Netflix documentary Making a Murderer. Here's what I think! And yes, I binge watched the entire series in two days.

In Druid Theatre's Big Maggie, actress Aisling O'Sullivan has breathed life and meaning into a character previously written off as a vitriolic sociopath. Read my review of Druid Theatre's Big Maggie to find out why this play is not as old-fashioned at one might think.

A journey into the darkly comic existential mind of Samuel Beckett, The Emergency Room presents Lessness with Olwen Fouere at its heart.

The most achingly Irish tragedy you will ever read, Anne Enright's The Green Road is nothing short of a masterpiece.