Irish Literary News – January Edition!
The Official 746 Books Back to School Reading List!
Irish Book Awards 2015 – Shortlist Announced!
The Shortlist for the Irish Book Awards was announced today and there are some great books and authors to check out. The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards brings together the entire literary community – readers, authors, booksellers, publishers and librarians – to recognise and celebrate the very best of Irish literary talent across…
Irish Bookish Films Coming Soon-ish!
2015/ 16 is shaping up to be an interesting time for film adaptations of Irish novels. Most high profile is probably Brooklyn, adapted from Colm Tóibín’s Costa award winning 2009 novel by fellow author Nick Hornby and directed by John Crowley. The trailer for the movie, which is out on 6 November focuses on the…
My Top Ten Books by Irish Authors
I thought I would kick Ireland Month off with a pretty impossible task – that of choosing my Top Ten Books by Irish Authors. This list has now gone through several revisions as I think of some other book I want to include, but as of now it will have to do! Included are books…
Top Ten Tuesday – Who’s Coming to Lunch?
So, this week’s Top Ten Tuesday theme from The Broke and The Bookish is a back to school one, namely what literary characters would you like to have sitting at your lunch table. Given that I haven’t been at school in *whisper it* 24 years and I don’t read a lot of books featuring teenagers,…
No 705 An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray
If there is a downside to writing a Booker shortlisted, critically acclaimed, best-selling, universally loved book like Skippy Dies, it may be that readers come to your first, lesser known novel and find themselves disappointed in it by comparison. This seems to be the online consensus and if I’m honest, I wasn’t expecting to like…
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