Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. This week, all three are from Cathy at 746 Books’ post on Irish Short Stories & Nonfiction to look out for in 2026 –

Devotions by Lucy Caldwell

Summary: Eight stories about love, grief, longing, of new beginnings, and the ways we find shelter in each other.

I’m thinking: Yes.

Home Economics by Caitríona Lally

Summary: Between 2015 and 2021, Lally published her first two novels. To buy her time to write during those years, she returned to housekeeping at Trinity College Dublin, a job she enjoyed as a student. So begins a negotiation between the practical and creative demands of her life, further complicated when she gets pregnant and almost impossible when the pandemic hits.

I’m thinking: Yes.

Hungry: A Biography of my Body by Katriona O’Sullivan

Summary: Raised in a home marked by poverty, addiction and abuse, O’Sullivan found success as an academic and author. But beneath the achievements lay a more private struggle – with her body, her worth, and the unrelenting drive to be enough. In this memoir, she explores how trauma, class and gender shape the way women see themselves.

I’m thinking: Yes.