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Daily Links 08/03/2010

March 8, 2010 – 7:49 am

LITERARY DEATH MATCH TRIUMPH!!!
Dublin’s first Literary Death Match reviewed, by the winner!
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A stranger in both cultures
Another review for Niall O’Dowd’s memoir
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We live in the 19th century as well as the 21st
Fintan weighs in on the Julian Gough thing!
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Is closing a bookshop akin to knocking down a unicorn?
Shane Hegarty talks bookshops!
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Turning libel into crucifixion

Excellent review for Pat Walsh’s Patrick Kavanagh & The Leader
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Cover design
Share your thoughts on the cover design for The White Gallows over at the author, Rob Kitchin’s, blog.
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Books that stay with you…
Great post from Claire Hennesy
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Irish Top Ten Week Ending 13/02/2010

February 17, 2010 – 11:00 am

The power of the Stieg Larsson brand is really quite phenomenal. Again his book dominate the top ten, but woth some interesting new arrivals, most notably Mick McCaffrey’s Cocaine Wars. Real life and fictional thrillers being equally popular in Ireland.

    1: The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
    2: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
    3: Cocaine Wars:’Fat’ Freddie Thompson and the Crumlin/Drimnagh Feud, Mick McCaffery
    4: The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
    5: Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation, John Carlin
    6: Mathematical Tables
    7: The Missing, Jane Casey
    8: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, Stieg Larsson
    9: Stolen, Lesley Pearse
    10: Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann

Source, Nielsen Bookscan ICM Figures

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Irish Top Ten Week Ending 06/02/2010

February 9, 2010 – 6:13 pm

No doubt fuelled by the heavy promotion of the film, Invictus makes an appearance in the top ten, which is overall dominated by the talented but departed Mr Larsson. Colum McCann is still selling well as is Sebold and the seemingly unstoppable rise of the Mathematical Tables continues!

1: Mathematical Tables
2: The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
3: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
4: Stolen, Lesley Pearse
5: The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
6: Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
7: Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation, John Carlin
8: Don’t Tell, Karen Rose
9: Living with Evil, Cynthia Owen
10: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, Stieg Larsson

Source: Nielsen Bookscan

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Irish Top Ten Week Ending 30/01/2010

February 8, 2010 – 9:45 am

We have the somewhat odd situation at the end of February where Alice Sebold occupies two slots with one book (in different editions), a product of the motion picture hype and the impressive performance of Irish actress Saoirse Ronan. Colum McCann makes a return after a somewhat strange disappearance driven I suspect by poor restocking or perhaps a rushed reprint. Larsson remains strong and two weeks in a row without Meyer. If Meyer’s fading sales are consistent worldwide, Hachette may need to find something soon for 2010 if their figures have any hope of matching the results from 2010.

1: The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
2: State Mathematical Tables
3: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
4: Living with Evil, Cynthia Owen
5: The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
6: Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
7: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, Stieg Larsson
8: The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
9: Stolen, Lesley Pearse
10: The Lovers, John Connolly

Source: Nielsen Bookscan, ICM

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Irish Top Ten Week Ending 16/01/2010

January 19, 2010 – 4:26 pm
Living With Evil

Living With Evil, Cynthia Owen

Again a strong week for Stieg larsson but Colum McCann, Alice Sebold and newcomers to the top ten in 2010, Cynthia Owen, Fiona O’Brien and Harlan Coben doing well too.

1: Living with Evil, Cynthia Owen
2: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Steig Larsson
3: The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
4: The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold, Alice
5: Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
6: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, Stieg Larsson
7: No Reservations, Fiona O’Brien
8: Eclipse, Stephanie Meyer
9: The Road, Cormac McCarthy
10: Long Lost, Harlan Coben

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The Irish Top Ten Week Ending 09/01/2010

January 12, 2010 – 7:44 pm
Let The Great World Spin, Colum McCann

McCann’s, Let The Great World Spin is selling well.

Larsson continues his posthumous domination of the Irish book market in 2010. Though it is nice to see the presence of McCann’s book which did well in 2009 and Brooklyn by Toibin no doubt helped by his Costa win last week, I wonder how it will do if he wins the overall award?

1: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
2: The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
3: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, Stieg Larsson
4: Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
5: The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
6: Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
7: Brooklyn, Colm Toibin
8: Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
9: The Brightest Star in the Sky, Marian Keyes
10: Run For Your Life, James Patterson

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