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Bord Gáis Launches Bookshop Of The Year Competition

September 23, 2011 – 7:00 am

Bord Gáis Energy has launched a competition to find Ireland’s top bookshop.

The competition, The Bord Gáis Energy Book Shop of the Year, offers readers and members of The Bord Gais Energy Book Club the opportunity to vote for their favourite store.

The competition asks those voting to ask themselves:

  • Does the book shop provide a wide range of books for you to choose from?
  • Are the staff in the shop approachable, helpful and knowledgeable?
  • Is it easy to find the book you are looking for?
  • Do you trust that you will enjoy the books recommended by the shop?
  • What is your overall impression of the shop?

Ten stores, (two from each of five regions; Leinster, Munster, Ulster, Connacht and Greater Dublin) will be shortlisted for the  award. The winner will be announced on 17 November 2011 at a Gala Dinner to celebrate the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards in the Convention Centre, Dublin.

The winning store will receive an honorary award as well as €5000 worth of gas and electricity from Bord Gáis Energy.

Votes can be cast here.

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Gallery: Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards Shortlist Announcement

October 29, 2010 – 10:26 am

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Bord Gais Energy Launches Online Book Club

September 3, 2010 – 11:57 am

Bord Gais Energy is to launch an online book club Monday 6th September. The site is live now at www.bordgaisenergybookclub.ie.

The book club will feature a rotating panel of reviewers including Bert Wright who is the administrator of the Irish Book Awards, a celebrity author and a librarian from one of the 369 public libraries in Ireland.

The first month features Skippy Dies, the Man Booker nominated book by Irishman Paul Murray, which will be reviewed by Bishopstown librarian David O’Brien. Amanda Brunker will review Fogive And Forget by Patricia Scanlan and Bert Wright will review, bestseller, The Help by Kathryn Stockett.

This marks the fifth book related promotion by Bord Gais Energy who also support The Irish Book Awards, The Irish Book of The Decade, TV3′s Ireland AM Book Club and the Readiscover Your Local Library campaign.

The competition for book readers attention is heating up with the Irish Independent launching their own book club in August and The Irish Times launched an online book club earlier in 2010.

However there are some 500 private book clubs in the country and if the attendance at the Ennis Book Club Festival is anything to go by, there is no danger of readers falling out of love with book clubs anytime soon.

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Daily Links 20/04/2010

April 20, 2010 – 2:53 pm

Cork World Book Fest 2010Agreement reached for buyout of The Bookseller
Fascinating news!
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Save the Date
Laura’s going to be at the Kildare Writers Festival
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Cork World Book Fest ’10 Digital Book Panel
Might be worth heading to if you are in cork!
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Cork World Book Fest 2010
You know, this isn’t the worst book festival around!
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Terrific Line up for Dublin Writers Festival
Agreed
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Growing up in Belfast.
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Review: If I Never See You Again by Niamh O’Connor
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Ash Wednesday, Thursday, Friday…
Raven Books
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Oscar, my grandfather
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London Book Fair: Latest on Disruption
Nasty business this volcano!
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Ideas for the Future
McGann is definitely the best author in Ireland thinking on these issues
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The Picture of Dorian Gray – An Afternoon Tryst
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Review: Paperboy by Tony Macaulay
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Review: No Curtain Call by KT McCaffrey
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The truth about the man who accuses Adams…
An Ed Moloney Review
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Bord Gáis Energy READISCOVER Your Local Library Week kicks off!
This READISCOVER campaign was is a big one.
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Extra, Extra, Read All About It!
Good news for Paperboy
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Vote Kevin Barry!
Kevin Barry’s There Are Little Kingdoms is among the fifty books nominated for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Decade
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‘Penny Apples’ on shortlist for Books of the Decade!
Mercier’s Penny Apples made it to the shortlist for the Book of the decade
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Irish Book Of The Decade Shortlist Announced

April 14, 2010 – 3:46 pm

The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards has announced the shortlist for the Irish Book of the Decade.

The public has been invited to vote for their favourite from what is a broad list containing literary fiction, commercial fiction, memoir and autobiography as well as on-fiction, adult’s and children’s titles.

The title with the most votes by the close of voting on May 28th will be awarded a special Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Irish Book Of the Decade trophy.

The full list is below:

PS I Love You, Cecelia Ahern

The Sea, John Banville

The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry

A Long Long Way, Sebastian Barry

There Are Little Kingdoms, Kevin Barry

Havoc in Its Third Year, Ronan Bennett

Heart and Soul, Maeve Binchy

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne

Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer

The Lovers, John Connolly

It’s a Long Way from Penny Apples, Bill Cullen

Bog Child, Siobhan Dowd

Paula Spencer, Roddy Doyle

Tatty, Christine Dwyer Hickey

The Stolen Village, Des Ekin

The Gathering, Anne Enright

Judging Dev, Diarmaid Ferriter

In the Woods, Tana French

The Speckled People, Hugo Hamilton

Foolish Mortals, Jennifer Johnston

Keane, Roy Keane

Walk the Blue Fields, Claire Keegan

Lessons in Heartbreak, Cathy Kelly

With My Lazy Eye, Julia Kelly

This Charming Man, Marian Keyes

Tenderwire, Claire Kilroy

Skulduggery Pleasant, Derek Landy

Molly Fox’s Birthday, Dirdre Madden

Winterwood, Patrick McCabe

Let The Great World Spin, Colm McCann

The Builders, Frank/Cathy McDonald/Sheridan

Memoir, John McGahern

That They May Face The Rising Sun, John McGahern

Back From The Brink, Paul McGrath

The Pope’s Children, David McWillians

A Secret History of the IRA, Ed Moloney

In the Forest, Edna O’Brien

Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade, Ross O’Carroll Kelly

Star of the Sea, Jospeh O’Connor

Stepping Stones, Dennis/Seamus O’Driscol/Heaney

Yours Faithfully, Sheila O’Flanagan

Netherland, Joseph O’Neill

The Truth Commissioner, David Parks

Connemara: Listening to the Wind, Tim Robinson

Forgive and Forget, Patricia Scanlan

The Parish, Alice Taylor

The New Policeman, Kate Thompson

Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín

The Master, Colm Tóibín

The Story of Lucy Gault, William Trevor

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Bord Gáis Energy To Sponsor Irish Book Awards

March 8, 2010 – 11:00 am

New Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards LogoThe Irish Book Awards has signed a new headline sponsor with Irish semi-state company, Bord Gáis Energy. The company is to sponsor the event for three years starting in 2010.

The Awards will now take place in November and submissions are open until the closing date of 30th September 2010.

As part of the deal Bord Gáis Energy will launch a nationwide reading promotion in April 2010.

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