Top shelf: Sofie Laguna

Frost giants, dwarfs, gods and monsters create the world and create mayhem. And writer Neil Gaiman is delighted to retell these ancient stories.

Novelist and US Young People's Poet Laureate Jacqueline Woodson marched from the New York Public Library to Trump Towers to deliver a pointed message to the new political establishment. She wasn't alone.

"There's something about that hidden midnight tunnel to the outside world that makes you feel, if you were watching it as a lonely kid who really didn't connect to you surroundings and you saw this really weird, really compelling thing on the TV, you felt almost as if you had phantom company."

Writer Lisa McInerney presents an Ireland of complex characters, working class lives, drugs and drinking and violence and warmth.