Kevin Barry's brilliant City of Bohane joins the list of four first novels in contention for the Costa First Novel Award, the winner of which will go on to contest the Costa Book of the Year. Category winners (for Novel, First Novel, Biography, ...
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Kevin Barry's 'electrifying' debut novel City of Bohane has been nominated for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year.  The winner is announced on 17th November 2011
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Craig Silvey's second novel Jasper Jones has been shortlisted for the world's richest prize, joining Colm Toibin, Colum McCann, William Trevor, Joyce Carol Oates, Evie Wyld, Barbara Kingsolver, Yiyun Li, David Malouf and Michael ...
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The News Where You Are, Catherine O'Flynn's second novel, has been chosen as one of ten titles for the TV Book Club to be aired on More4 and Channel 4 in January and February 2011
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Adam Thorpe's astonishing novel Hodd, a retelling of the myth of Robin Hood told through the long-lost testimony of Much the Minstrel, has been shortlisted for the inaugural Walter Scott Prize, presented at the Borders Book Festival in June ...
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Catherine O'Flynn's brilliant second novel has been shortlisted for the only existing prize for comic writing.  The winner will be announced at the Hay Festival at the end of May
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Maria Allen's debut novel joins two other titles on the third shortlist for the Desmond Elliott Prize, the prize for new fiction.  The winner is announced on 24th June 2010.
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Philip OCeallaigh is again nominated for the Frank O'Connor Prize 2009 for his second story collection, The Pleasant Light of Day, published by Penguin Ireland in February.  His first collection, Notes From a Turkish Whorehouse, was ...
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Regi Claire joins Janice Galloway, A.L. Kennedy, James Buchan, Robert Crawford and John Macleod on the shortlist for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year for her brilliant short story collection Fighting It.  The winner will be announced on ...
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Amanda Smyth's debut novel is one of twelve new voices chosen by Waterstones as one to watch.  She joins Mari Strachan, Richard Milward, Anthony Quinn and Yiyun Lee amongst others on the list which last year introduced us to Sadie Jones' ...
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