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# Irish Reads
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# Irish Reads
Irish fiction to look forward to in 2022
Here are the books to look out for next year.
# Reading
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# Reading
Extract: 'The Point', 'What? You mean the 3Arena?' I felt like Rip van Winkle
Dubliner Emily Bell writes about returning to live in the city after 20 years and finding that all the names have changed – and yet stayed the same.
# Opinion
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Opinion: 'Until the 70s, puritanical attitudes of Irish society and State discouraged women’s writing'
Eilis Ní Dhuibhne writes about how women writers in Ireland faced a range of barriers up until recent decades.
# Podcast
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# Podcast
The Explainer: How do you get a book published in Ireland?
Authors Alice Taylor and Sophie White share their experiences and advice with us this week.
# Supply Chain Issues
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# Supply Chain Issues
'Don't be waiting until December': Book shoppers warned of potential shortages before Christmas
Supply chain issues are already impacting supplies this year.
# Booked
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# Booked
The42's new anthology - Behind the Lines, No. 5 - is on sale now
Priced at €12, Behind the Lines contains 18 more great Irish sports stories from The42.
# An Post Ibas
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# An Post Ibas
Sally Rooney, Claire Keegan and Donal Skehan among Irish Book Awards nominees
The awards will take place at a ceremony on 23 November.
# Your Say
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# Your Say
Poll: How often do you read a book?
The Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced today.
# Big Deal
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# Big Deal
Neflix acquires the whole works of Roald Dahl
Dahl’s books have been translated into 63 languages and sold more than 300 million copies worldwide.
# Hit The Books
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# Hit The Books
‘Sally Rooney day’: Buzz in bookshops as author's much-anticipated new novel lands on shelves
Rooney’s third novel Beautiful World, Where Are You is out today.
# Novels
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# Novels
Opinion: I had fun jobs, crap jobs, redundancies, got fired - and then I wrote my first book
Lizzy Dent describes the adventures that brought her to her first novel.
# Prize
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# Prize
One Irish author makes shortlist for €100k Dublin Literary Award
Six books are on this year’s shortlist. Previous winners include Anna Burns for Milkman, and Mike McCormack for Solar Bones.
# Opinion
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# Opinion
'It reinforced my sense of belonging': One Dublin One Book author Rónán Hession on his life in reading
Author Rónán Hession’s debut novel Leonard and Hungry Paul is this year’s One Dublin One Book selection – here, he writes about the joy reading has brought to his life.
# Books
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# Books
Four Irish authors on longlist for prestigious €100k Dublin Literary Award
Previous winners include Anna Burns for Milkman, and Mike McCormack for Solar Bones.
# Beautiful World
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# Beautiful World
New novel from Normal People author Sally Rooney to be published in September
Beautiful World, Where Are You follows two best friends as they navigate love, friendship and sex heading into their thirties.
# Page Turners
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# Publishing
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# Publishing
Champagne Football was the biggest-selling Irish-published book in 2020
Mark Tighe and Paul Rowan’s book sold over 49,300 copies.
# Preview
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# Preview
Irish books to watch out for in 2021
Here are some names to remember for your book shopping next year.
# Imagination
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# Imagination
Quiz: How much do you know about Roald Dahl and his books?
The theme of the Toy Show was ‘the wonderful world of Roald Dahl’ – let’s take a closer look at that world.
# Comfort Reads
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# Comfort Reads
Open thread: What books gave you comfort in 2020?
We fill you in on what worked for us.
# Comfort Reads
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# Comfort Reads
The books that brought writers like Roddy Doyle and Tana French comfort in 2020
Irish and Ireland-based writers, including Roddy Doyle, Sinéad Gleeson and Tana French, tell us about the books that soothed them this year.
# Get Reading
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# Get Reading
Book lovers - here's the international fiction to watch out for in 2021
From Irish to international authors, we have you covered.
# Books
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'Our online orders went up overnight - we sold a lot of classics': How Covid-19 affected Irish book shops
Booksellers say that people turned to fiction in lockdown – and book sales are up 4% on last year.
# Shortlist
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# Shortlist
Which of these 5 sports books will win the prestigious William Hill prize?
‘Born Fighter’ and ‘The Rodchenkov Affair’ are among the contenders.
# An Post Ibas
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# An Post Ibas
'It's a huge thing for a writer': Donal Ryan and Keelin Shanley among Irish Book Awards winners
“It’s just a privilege,” Eason Novel of the Year winner Donal Ryan told us.
# Get Reading
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# Get Reading
What are the best Irish reads of 2020? The Irish Book Awards are on tonight - and you can tune in
Here’s how you can tune in – and who’s nominated in TheJournal.ie’s sponsored category.
# Bedtime Stories
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# Bedtime Stories
6,000 books gifted to children in direct provision, hospitals and homeless services across Ireland
There are over 2,100 children in direct provision and over 2,500 experiencing homelessness.
# Opinion
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# Opinion
'Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill scooped up handfuls of her lover's blood, drank, then threw back her head and howled'
Author and poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa is nominated in the An Post Irish Book Awards – here she writes about how ghosts inspired her nominated book.
# Irish Book Awards
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# Irish Book Awards
Keelin Shanley, Luke O'Neill and Mary McAleese among this year's Irish Book Awards nominees
Once again, TheJournal.ie is sponsoring the Best Irish Published Book award.
# Well Read
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# Well Read
Here are the 15 sports books longlisted for the William Hill prize
David Walsh’s The Russian Affair is among the contenders for the big prize.
# Your Say
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# Your Say
Poll: Have you been reading more books over the past six months?
Has Covid-19 made it easier or more difficult to get stuck into some books?
# John Bolton
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# John Bolton
Trump’s former national security adviser can publish tell-all book, judge rules
John Bolton’s memoir is due out on Tuesday.
# Bookworms
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# Bookworms
Dublin City Council reveals most popular books borrowed during Covid-19 lockdown
Man Who Didn’t Call by Rosie Walsh tops the list for e-books.
# The Ickabog
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# The Ickabog
JK Rowling announces new fairytale for children will be published free online
The Harry Potter author said she wrote The Ickabog 10 years ago.
# Your Say
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# Good Reads
From The42
# Good Reads
Hampson, Woodward, Brennan - 14 recommended rugby books
We’ve picked out a few good rugby reads and want to hear your recommendations.
# Open Thread
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# Open Thread
Open thread: What are your comfort reads?
What do you turn to when you need to be cheered up or comforted?
# Your Say
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# Your Say
Poll: Do you plan to read more books than usual over the next few weeks?
People working from home or self-isolating may find they have more time on their hands than usual.
# Speculative Fiction
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# Speculative Fiction
'Britain has pride about not succumbing to fascism in the 20th century - I'm suggesting it could happen in the 21st'
In his debut novel The Last Day, QI Elf Andrew Hunter Murray writes about a world that’s half in shadow, half in light.
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