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# Authors

This year
2024
Extract: 'I felt a kind of bereavement for the Mayo of my youth and my stories'
Colin Barrett
Last year
2023
These are 10 of the best Irish novels of 2023
Extract: 'She is funny and puts herself down, but in a funny way, so it’s okay'
Mia Döring
Extract: 'Gently paced and physically undemanding, the voyage was the essence of slow travel'
Gwen Wilkinson
All time
The books that brought writers like Roddy Doyle and Tana French comfort in 2020
These are the Irish novels to look out for in early 2020
How the Facebook page Oh My God, What A Complete Aisling became a publishing phenomenon
13 memories everyone who grew up loving Roald Dahl books will remember
Could you write a book? These 11 and 12-year-olds have
Do you prefer buying books in bookshops or online?
Irish Book Award winners: Roddy Doyle, Darina Allen, David Walsh and Fintan O'Toole
JD Salinger may publish five more books despite his death in 2010
Three Irish authors make Man Booker Prize longlist
Dublin Writers Festival "getting bigger and bigger"
Events being held across Ireland to celebrate World Book Day
Prepare to cringe: US author wins the Bad Sex in Fiction Award - and it's bad
Sebastian Barry misses out on Booker shortlist