Derek Landy’s book, Skulduggery Pleasant, has won the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Decade competition. His book came top of an online poll of nearly 5,000 readers.
Landy beat off competition from authors such as Edna O’Brien, William Trevor, Cathy Kelly, Anne Enright, Cecelia Ahern, Colm Tobin, Bill Cullen, Roy Keane, Eamon Dunphy and Ross O’Carroll Kelly.
The Book Of The Decade award is part of the ‘Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards’ which will take place in November 2010.
It has been a busy month for Irish Publishing News. So busy we didn’t get a round up post out so here, as a monthly digest, it is! To celebrate the iPad launch in the UK and the forthcoming launch here in July we’ve added a rather nice image from Flickr User Jesus Belzunce.
Mary McAlese Announces The Inaugural Laureate na nÓg
Gately’s Posthumous Title To Make Chart?
Irish Top Ten Week Ending 22/05/2010
Irish Top Ten Week Ending 15/05/2010
Irish Top Ten Week Ending 09/05/2010
Irish Top Ten Week Ending 1/05/2010
Eason Book Club Choice for May is Tana French’s In The Woods
Guest Column: Seeing beyond the recession: Celebrating 25 Years Of Cló Iar-Chonnacht
Guest Column: How to Make Ebooks and Influence People
Guest Column: My Business Is Your Business
Exclusive: Derek Hughes On The New Hughes & Hughes
Breaking: Hughes & Hughes Dundrum Reopens
PJ O Connor Awards Shortlist 2010 Announced
Nuala Ní Chonchúir Makes The Edge Hill Short List
Jean Harrington New President of Publishing Ireland
Hughes & Hughes St. Stephen’s Green To Reopen Monday
RTE Releases The Francis MacManus Radio Short Story Competition Shortlist
Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick Wins Bisto Children’s Book Of The Year 2009/2010 for ‘There’
Hughes & McGilloway On The Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award 2010 Longlist
Published This Month ~ May 2010
Liberties Press Offers PDF Ebooks Direct To Readers
Gill & MacMillan Signs “Heartbreaking” Story
Three Book Deal With Poolbeg For Debut Novelist Shirley Benton Bailey
Lots more to come in June!
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