The Shortlisted titles for the Irish Book Awards 2016 have just been announced and we are particularly excited to announce the nominees for the Eason Book Club Novel of the year!
All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan
Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. Her husband doesn’t take her news too well. She doesn’t want to tell her father yet because he’s a good man and this could break him. She’s trying to stay in the moment, but the future is looming – larger by the day – while the past won’t let her go. What she did to Breedie Flynn all those years ago still haunts her. It’s a good thing that she meets Mary Crothery when she does. Mary is a young Traveller woman, and she knows more about Melody than she lets on. She might just save Melody’s life.
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Having signed up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely 17, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, they find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in.
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
Once a year, on All Souls’ Day, it is said in Ireland that the dead may return. ‘Solar Bones’ is the story of one such visit. Marcus Conway, a middle-aged engineer, turns up one afternoon at his kitchen table and considers the events that took him away and then brought him home again. Funny and strange, McCormack’s ambitious and other-worldly novel plays with form and defies convention. This profound work is by one of Ireland’s most important contemporary novelists. A beautiful and haunting elegy, this story of order and chaos, love and loss captures how minor decisions ripple into waves and test our integrity every day.
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
One night in London an 18 year old girl, recently arrived from Ireland to study drama, meets an older actor and a tumultuous relationship ensues. Set across the bedsits and squats of mid-nineties north London, ‘The Lesser Bohemians’ is a story about love and innocence, joy and discovery, the grip of the past and the struggle to be new again.
The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
An eleven-year-old girl stops eating, but remains miraculously alive and well. A nurse, sent to investigate whether she is a fraud, meets a journalist hungry for a story. Set in the Irish Midlands in the 1850s, ‘The Wonder’ – inspired by numerous European and North American cases of ‘fasting girls’ between the 16th and the 20th centuries – is a psychological thriller about a child’s murder threatening to happen in slow motion before our eyes. Pitting all the seductions of fundamentalism against sense and love, it is a searing examination of what nourishes us, body and soul.
This Must Be The Place by Maggie O’Farrell
Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father he loathes in Brooklyn and a wife, Claudette, who is a reclusive ex-film star given to shooting at anyone who ventures up their driveway. He is also about to find out something about a woman he lost touch with 20 years ago, and this discovery will send him off-course, far away from wife and home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back?
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Journal.ie Best Irish Published Book of the Year
All Through the Night by Marie Heaney
Dublin Since 1922 by Tim Carey
Looking Back: The Changing Faces of Ireland by Eric Luke
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks by Fintan O’Toole (ed.)
The Invisible Art: A Century of Music in Ireland 1916-2016 by Michael Dervan
The Glass Shore by Sinead Gleeson
National Book Tokens Non-Fiction Book of the Year
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy by Paul Howard
Ireland The Autobiography by John Bowman
The Hurley Maker’s Son by Patrick Deeley
The Supreme Court by Ruadhán Mac Cormaic
Time Pieces: John Banville’s Dublin by John Banville & Paul Joyce
When Ideas Matter by Michael D. Higgins
Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year JNR
A Child of Books by Sam Winston and Oliver Jeffers
Goodnight Everyone by Chris Haughton
Historopedia by Fatti and John Burke
Pigín Of Howth by Kathleen Watkins
Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit’s Bad Habits by Julian Gough & Jim Field
Rover and the Big Fat Baby by Roddy Doyle
Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year SNR
Knights of The Borrowed Dark by Dave Rudden
The Book of Shadows by E.R. Murray
The Making of Mollie by Anna Carey
Needlework by Deirdre Sullivan
Nothing Tastes As Good by Claire Hennessy
Flawed by Cecelia Ahern
Avonmore Cookbook of the Year
Natural Born Feeder by Roz Purcell
Neven Maguire’s Complete Family Cookbook by Neven Maguire
Recipes For A Nervous Breakdown by Sophie White
The Brother Hubbard by Garrett Fitzgerald
The Little Green Spoon by Indy Power
The World of The Happy Pear by Stephen and David Flynn
Books are My Bag Crime Fiction Book of the Year
Distress Signals Catherine by Ryan Howard
Little Bones by Sam Blake
Lying In Wait by Liz Nugent
The Constant Soldier by William Ryan
The Drowning Child by Alex Barclay
The Trespasser by Tana French
Irish Independent Popular Fiction Book of the Year
Game of Throw-Ins by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly
Lyrebird by Cecelia Ahern
Rebel Sisters by Marita Conlon McKenna
The Girl From The Savoy by Hazel Gaynor
The Privileged by Emily Hourican
Holding by Graham Norton
Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year
Himself by Jess Kidd
Red Dirt by E M Reapy
The Last Days of Summer by Vanessa Ronan
The Maker of Swans by Paraic O’Donnell
The Things I Should Have Told You by Carmel Harrington
This Living and Immortal Thing by Austin Duffy
Ireland AM Popular Nonfiction Book of the Year
Adventures Of A Wonky-Eyed Boy by Jason Byrne
Fat Chance by Louise McSharry
Making It Up As I Go Along by Marian Keyes
Pippa by Pippa O’Connor
Talking to Strangers by Michael Harding
The Life and Times of Mr. Pussy by Alan Amsby/David Kenny
Bord Gáis Energy Sports Book of the Year
Blood, Sweat & McAteer by Jason McAteer
Coolmore Stud, Ireland’s Greatest Sporting Success Story by Alan Conway
My Life in Rugby by Donal Lenihan
Out of Control by Cathal McCarron
The Battle by Paul O’Connell
Win or Learn by John Kavanagh
The Tubridy Show RTE Radio 1 Listeners’ Choice Award
Lying In Wait by Liz Nugent
Conclave by Robert Harris
Dictatorship – My Teenage War With OCD by Rebecca Ryan
All Through the Night by Marie Heaney
All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan
Victim Without A Face by Stefan Ahnhem
Writing.ie Short Story of the Year
Lucy Caldwell
Lauren Foley
Orla McAlinden
Jane Casey
John Connell
Gerard Beirne
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