# Books

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# dublin literary award

Two Irish novels shortlisted for literary award worth €100,000

The award was launched on 7 April 1995 and is now in its 23rd year.

12.1k

Apr 5th 2018, 8:02 AM

# The Cow Book

'Farming is what saved me, really' - Coming home to fight depression and deliver calves

“Life was really good for a time – until it wasn’t.”

15.6k

Mar 10th 2018, 6:01 PM

# Bedside bookpile

7 things you'll recognise if the book pile beside your bed is your personal Everest

It’s mocking you.

5.5k

Feb 20th 2018, 9:00 PM

# Emma Hannigan

Writers join together to push Irish author's new book to top spot after terminal diagnosis

Bestselling author Emma Hannigan announced on Friday that her breast cancer is now terminal.

27.1k

Feb 20th 2018, 6:05 AM

# read women

17 upcoming books by women to read in 2018

Hup the gals.

5.6k

Jan 1st 2018, 9:30 PM

# a wrinkle in time

9 books to read before they come out as movies in 2018

BEWKS!

8.6k

Dec 30th 2017, 10:00 PM

# angus thongs

10 books that were essential reading for girls growing up in the 2000s

We learned so much.

6.1k

Dec 30th 2017, 11:22 AM

# turn the page

Here were our favourite books of 2017 - what about you?

We want to know.

15.0k

Dec 29th 2017, 6:00 PM

# turn the page

These are the books we'll all be talking about in 2018

Here’s the definitive list.

28.0k

Dec 27th 2017, 5:30 PM

# get booky

Here are the books some of our favourite faces read and loved in 2017

Plus some picks of our own.

5.0k

Dec 25th 2017, 5:00 PM

# costa book awards

Three Irish authors shortlisted for major UK book award

The Costa Book Awards is the only major book prize open only to authors resident in Britain and Ireland.

11.4k

Nov 22nd 2017, 10:41 AM

# listen to me

9 audiobooks narrated by celebrities to go on a nice long walk with

Bliss!

8.1k

Nov 10th 2017, 9:00 PM

# lit festival

These Waterford teens have set up Ireland's first youth-run literary festival

We talked to them about how they did it.

11.0k

Nov 5th 2017, 8:00 PM

# Irish book awards

Newbies, celebrities, and one turkey: These Irish books are in the running to be named the best of 2017

The nominees for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book awards were announced today.

14.9k

Nov 2nd 2017, 2:46 PM

Voices

Stay-at-home mom turned vampire author Clare Daly: 'How I became a writer'

Clare Daly is about to self-publish her first novel, an Irish Vampire story, Our Destiny is Blood.

21.5k

Oct 30th 2017, 7:30 PM

# autumnal reads

8 new books to curl up with now it's turned awful cold

It has though, hasn’t it?

7.0k

Oct 6th 2017, 7:19 PM

# Kazuo Ishiguro

British writer of The Remains of the Day wins Nobel Prize for Literature

The prize is worth 9 million kronor (€1 million).

9.5k

Oct 5th 2017, 12:29 PM

# ooh mr darcy

18 things that would happen if Pride and Prejudice was set in modern-day Ireland

Would it still be a classic? Maybe.

9.5k

Oct 1st 2017, 9:30 PM

# reading is fundamental

11 young adult novels that are well worth reading at any age

If you think YA is just for teens, you’re missing out.

9.8k

Sep 30th 2017, 9:30 PM

# essential reading

Here are the 16 sports books longlisted for the William Hill prize

Judy Murray’s book on life with her son Andy and a biography on the late Muhammad Ali are among the contenders.

8.2k

Sep 21st 2017, 3:51 PM

# ms readathon

'Imaginations flourish': 30 years of good done through the MS Readathon

Did you discover one of your favourite authors during the MS Readathon?

8.4k

Sep 16th 2017, 9:30 PM

# Roald Dahl Day

10 important things we learned from Roald Dahl books

It’s Roald Dahl Day!

10.5k

Sep 13th 2017, 6:08 PM

# gender roles

'The right to do any job they like': New book sets out a declaration for the rights of boys and girls

Irish publisher Siobhan Parkinson of Little Island tells us why they decided to publish the book.

9.0k

Sep 9th 2017, 11:45 AM

# omgwaca

How the Facebook page Oh My God, What A Complete Aisling became a publishing phenomenon

We talked to the book’s authors.

24.6k

Sep 9th 2017, 9:45 AM

# read women

25 books by women authors to read before 2017 is out

The best books by women authors this year.

8.9k

Aug 27th 2017, 8:00 PM

# monica mcinerney

From Australia to Ireland and back again: 'I realised I don't know where home is anymore'

The Irish-based Australian bestselling author tells us about how her own experience with emigration informed her new book.

21.4k

Aug 27th 2017, 10:00 AM

# back to school burden

Parents pay €275 per child on secondary school books

“August will be extremely stressful for me… I will lose sleep and I will worry,” one parent said.

11.6k

Aug 2nd 2017, 12:05 AM

# flog-warts

Two new Harry Potter books to be published this year

The books expand on the universe of the Harry Potter series.

22.5k

Jul 19th 2017, 10:03 PM

# National Refurb

Half a million books to be moved and €10m spent to preserve National Library collections

Current storage conditions put some collections at fire risk.

6.3k

Jul 12th 2017, 6:30 PM

# brightest witch of her year

What Percent Hermione Granger Are You?

You’ve got dirt on your nose by the way. Did you know? Just there.

16.2k

Jul 1st 2017, 6:00 PM

# mischief managed

12 lovely memories you will have if you grew up with Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is 20 years old today. Can you believe it?

6.2k

Jun 26th 2017, 6:56 PM

# holding their own

'Everyone predicted the end': How Ireland's Indie Bookshops are surviving in the Amazon age

Independent Book Shop week starts today, celebrating the great and the good of the indie bookseller.

119k

Jun 24th 2017, 6:00 PM

# read you wrote you

Tell us a book you like, and we'll recommend you one to read next

Re-stock that Kindle/teetering book pile.

10.5k

Jun 17th 2017, 8:00 PM

# Beren and Lúthien

A new JRR Tolkien book has been published (and there's a huge Irish wolfhound on the cover*)

*Well it’s Middle-earth, so it’s not really an Irish wolfhound.

18.0k

Jun 1st 2017, 2:20 PM

# beach reads

11 twisty, suspenseful novels to read on your holidays

A few page-turners to eat up on your sun lounger.

7.2k

May 20th 2017, 6:00 PM

# diversity

Transgender teens, blended families and feminism - the new breed of children's books

We ask experts about the move towards diversity on the bookshelves.

16.5k

Mar 26th 2017, 9:30 PM

# echoland

A spy novel set in Dublin during the 1940s Emergency chosen as this year's One City One Book

Echoland, by Joe Joyce, follows novels such as Dubliners, Dracula and Strumpet City to be chosen for the festival.

10.5k

Mar 22nd 2017, 10:01 AM

# books of revelations

11 juicy celebrity memoirs that are actually worth a read

Gossip hounds, get in here.

13.1k

Mar 17th 2017, 10:00 PM

# lashings of boiled eggs

How Well Do You Remember Enid Blyton Books?

Jolly hockey sticks!

12.6k

Mar 4th 2017, 6:00 PM

# world book day

Open thread: What's the most inspiring book you've ever read?

We’ll tell you ours…

14.8k

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