This week on The Last Word, we're looking at some of the best books you should buy for yourself or a loved one this Christmas.

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe and political journalist Lise Hand joined us to recommend their favourite non-fiction books of the year.

Their picks were as follows:

• 'The Globalist: Peter Sutherland' by John Walsh
• 'Burned: The Inside Story of the 'Cash-for-Ash' Scandal and Northern Ireland's Secretive New Elite' by Sam McBride
• 'Constellations' by Sinéad Gleeson
• 'How to Lose a Country: The Seven Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship' by Ece Temelkuran
• 'Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men' by Caroline Criado Perez
• 'Good Economics for Hard Times' by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Dunlop
• 'The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11' by Garrett M. Graff
• 'Winners Take All' by Anand Giridharadas
• 'The Third Pillar - The Revival of Community in a Polarized World' by Raghuram Rajan
• 'Haven't You Heard?: Gossip, power, and how politics really works' by Marie Le Conte

Listen to the interview in full by pressing the play button on this page.