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Irish Book Awards Shortlists Announced

October 21, 2011 – 9:00 am

Penguin Ireland was the big winner in yesterday’s announcement of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Shortlists. The company received a total of 10 nominations (and John Murray, its sister imprint another) twice that of any of its rivals.

The variety of Irish author’s nominated was impressive with Sebastian Barry, Neil Jordan, Derek Landy, Benjamin Black and Alan Glynn all nominated as well as  Orla Tinsley, comedian Des Bishop, radio presenter Joe Duffy, award-winning jockey Tony McCoy, scriptwriter/director John Butler and Irish rugby player Donncha O’Callaghan.

Transworld Ireland, Gill & McMillan, HarperCollins and Pan Macmillan all garnered five nominations with the Hachette group of companies pulling in five as well. Random House gained four, Simon & Schuster three.

Smaller publishers also did well with Liberties Press gaining one nomination in the Ireland Am Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year for Absolute Zero Cool by Declan Burke and Adam’s World of Wonders by Benji Bennett from Adam’s Printing Press joining the Junior section of the Specsavers Irish Children’s Book of the Year.

O’Brien Press, who recently acquired Brandon, gained three nominations, Mercier Press two as did Faber & Faber and Poolbeg with Granta, Atlantic, Andersen Press and Cosair gaining one each.

Public voting for the awards has now started and can be completed online, here. The winners will be announced at an awards dinner in the Concert Hall of the Royal Dublin Society on 17 November.

The Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year
Solace by Belinda McKeon (Picador)
On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry (Faber)
The Cold Eye of Heaven by Christine Dwyer Hickey (Atlantic)
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry (Random House)
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (Random House)
Mistaken by Neil Jordan (John Murray)

RTÉ Radio 1’s The John Murray Show Listeners’ Choice Award:
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Corsair)
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (Granta)
How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran (Ebury)
How the Light Gets in by Mary McEvoy (Hachette Ireland)
The Club by Christy O’Connor (Penguin Ireland)
My Dad was Nearly James Bond by Des Bishop (Penguin Ireland)

The Ireland AM Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year:
A Death in Summer by Benjamin Black (Mantle)
The Bloody Meadow by William Ryan (Mantle)
Bloodland by Alan Glynn (Faber)
The Reckoning by Jane Casey (Ebury)
Taboo by Casey Hill (Simon & Schuster)
Absolute Zero Cool by Declan Burke (Liberties Press)

The Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year:
How Ireland Really Went Bust by Matt Cooper (Penguin Ireland)
Easy Meals by Rachel Allen (Collins)
Circles Around the Sun by Molly McCloskey (Penguin Ireland)
Moscow, December 25, 1991 by Conor O’Clery (Transworld Ireland)
Just Joe: My Autobiography by Joe Duffy (Transworld Ireland)
Anglo Republic by Simon Carswell (Penguin Ireland)

Eason Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year:
The Time of my Life by Cecilia Ahern (HarperCollins)
All For You by Sheila O’Flanagan (Headline)
Me and My Sisters by Sinead Moriarty (Penguin Ireland)
Love and Marriage by Patricia Scanlan (Transworld Ireland)
NAMA Mia! by Ross O’Carroll Kelly (Penguin Ireland)
The Pink Ladies Club by Emma Hannigan (Poolbeg Press)

Irish Sports Book of the Year:
My Autobiography by A P McCoy (Orion)
Engage: The Fall and Rise of Matt Hampson by Paul Kimmage (Simon & Schuster)
Walk On: My Life in Red by Ronnie Whelan and Tommy Conlon (Simon & Schuster)
A Parish Far from Home by Philip O’Connor (Gill & Macmillan)
Joking Apart: My Autobiography by Donncha O’Callaghan (Transworld Ireland)
Inside the Peloton by Nicolas Roche (Transworld Ireland)

Sunday Independent Best Irish Newcomer of the Year:
The Tenderloin by John Butler (Picador)
Solace by Belinda McKeon (Picador)
The Better Half by Sarah Harte (Penguin Ireland)
The Lingerie Designer by Siobhan McKenna (Poolbeg Press)
Salty Baby by Orla Tinsley (Hachette Ireland)
My Dad was Nearly James Bond by Des Bishop (Penguin Ireland)

International Education Services Best Irish Published Book of the Year:
Catherine’s Family Kitchen by Catherine Fulvio (Gill & Macmillan)
Make Bake Love by Lilly Higgins (Gill & Macmillan)
Revolution by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc (Mercier)
The Other Ireland by Mary Jones (Gill & Macmillan)
Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom by Tim Robinson (Penguin Ireland)
Gorgeous to Go by Aisling McDermott (Gill & Macmillan)

Specsavers Irish Children’s Book of the Year:
Junior:
Adam’s World of Wonders by Benji Bennett (Adams Printing Press)
The Lonely Beast by Chris Judge (Andersen Press)
Sally Go Round the Stars by Sarah Webb and Steve McCarthy with Claire Ranson (O’Brien Press)
Stuck by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins Childrens)
Marco Moves In by Gerry Boland (O’Brien Press)

Senior:
The Saga of Larten Crepsley: Ocean of Blood by Darren Shan (HarperCollins Childrens)
Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer by Derek Landy (HarperCollins Childrens)
And For Your Information… by Denise Deegan (Hachette)
Arthur Quinn and the World Serpent by Alan Early (Mercier)
The Real Rebecca by Anna Carey (O’Brien)

Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award
Seamus Heaney

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Penguin Ireland And Gill & Macmillan Split Rights On Murder Book

March 29, 2011 – 9:14 am

Two of Ireland’s largest publishers have agreed a deal to split home and UK and Commonwealth rights for a new title about the Colin Howell and Hazel Stewart murder case.

Penguin Ireland bought UK and Commonwealth rights to the title while Gill & Macmillan acquired Island of Ireland rights.

Let This Be Our Secret: The Colin Howell/Hazel Stewart Murder Case is written by Deric Henderson Ireland Editor of the Press Association (TWITTER) and covers the sensational murder trial of Colin Howell and Hazel Stewart which ended recently.

Michael McLoughlin, Penguin Ireland’s MD, was the acquiring editor for Penguin Ireland while Fergal Tobin, publishing director at G&M, acquired for Gill & Macmillan.

Paul Feldstein of the Feldstein Agency represented Henderson and the book will be released by both publishers in summer/autumn 2011.

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YBooks Enters Distribution Agreement

March 3, 2011 – 12:26 pm

YBooks, the recently formed publisher backed by Chenile Keogh and Robert Doran, has signed a distribution agreement with Gill & Macmillan.

 

The company’s launched with Donal MacIntyre’s Hitmen, Gangsters, Cannibals and Me and now has four titles in print with two more to be released in March.

Prior to signing the agreement with Gill & Macmillan their books were available from Argosy and Easons wholesale. The company has also begun selling ebooks early on in its life and sells titles through Amazon, Kobo Books and WH Smiths and others.

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G&M Launches New Mini-Site

January 7, 2011 – 5:13 pm

Gill & Macmillan has rolled out a mini-site for one of its Mind Body Spirit titles, The Courage To be Happy.

The book, written by Dr. Colm O’Connor, is published under the publisher’s Mind Body Spirit imprint New Leaf and is described as ‘a rare mix of applied science and spiritual wisdom. It is a truly holistic book.’

The mini-site features a section with downloadable workbook pdfs, a news section and an author bio page. It was created in conjunction with Pixelsoup a creative agency based at The Digital Hub in Dublin.

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Irish Top Ten Week Ending 25/12/2010

January 5, 2011 – 11:09 am

When we discussed the top ten for the last full week before Christmas, we mentioned the scale of the sales. Well the final week (short of one day of course) was 25% bigger than that. The real winners were the top five. Jamie Oliver’s incredible streak of sales was capped by the incredible number of 11.271 and John Giles’s memoir scored a startling 8,718 while US2, from Ray D’Arcy sold 7,263. Gill & Macmillan’s Sounding was again a roaring success and in sold some 5,289 units.

Five of the top ten titles were published by Irish based publishers and five by foreign based publishers. The larger Penguin group had four titles in the top ten including two published by Penguin Ireland and two by other group companies.

Hachette Ireland’s decision to publish Giles’ memoir has paid off handsomely though whether it has paid for itself is hard to know given the rumoured large advance.

Emma Donoghue finishes a fine year with a strong fourth and early favourite for Christmas number one, Ryan Tubridy will be more than happy with his final week’s sales of 4,696.

1: Jamie’s 30-minute Meals, Jamie Oliver, 11,271
2: John Giles a Football Man, John Giles, 8,718
3: Us 2:Saturday 2nd October 2010:Today FM Photography Book, Ray D’Arcy, 7,263
4: Room, Emma Donoghue, 5,567
5: Soundings:Poems We Did for Our Leaving Certificate, 5,289
6: Guinness World Records 2011, 5,281
7: Wasters, Shane Ross & Nick Webb, 4,900
8: JFK in Ireland:Four Days That Changed a President, Ryan Tubridy, 4,696
9: Oh My God Delusion, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, 4,501
10: The Help, Kathryn Stockett, 4,265

Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 25th Dec 2010

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Top Ten Week Ending 18/12/2010

December 22, 2010 – 8:45 am

Quite a week for Christmas this year with sales of the top ten titles falling JUST short of 50,000 units. If it confirms anything it is the total dominance of Irish writers and projects. Eight of the top ten titles and fifteen of the top twenty titles are Irish authored projects. A pretty remarkable result in a market that seems somewhere between 75% and 85% of the books sold on our shelves published by foreign based publishers.

It was another remarkable result for Penguin companies too, a number one, number eight AND a number ten. In fact in the top twenty alone they have seven titles, mostly Penguin Ireland titles of which there are four in the top twenty.

Both mentor and Gill & Macmillan will be pleased with the week of sales. Soundings has proved ‘the little title that could’, selling enormous numbers of units since release and finishing on a tremendous note. Mentor’s Us2 showed the strength of Ray D’Arcy with a huge but short sell through which included a number one the week before Christmas week. Barnardos will profit from the titles success too as a portion of each unit sold will go to the children’s charity.

Of course, because Christmas falls on a Saturday a huge week of sales remains to be account for (numbers are collected Sunday-Saturday). Given the hefty sales this week and the snow effect during the current week, it seems likely that those results may be more subdued. However, it will be interesting to see how the results end up.

1: Jamie’s 30-minute Meals, Jamie Oliver, 7,748
2: John Giles a Football Man, John Giles, 6,568
3: Us 2:Saturday 2nd October 2010, Ray D’Arcy , 6,063
4: Guinness World Records 2011, 5,484
5: Soundings: Poems We Did for Our Leaving Certificate, 4,274
6: JFK in Ireland:Four Days That Changed a President, Ryan Tubridy, 4,266
7: Room, Emma Donoghue, 4,107
8: The Oh My God Delusion, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, 4,034
9: Homecoming, Cathy Kelly, 3,448
10: Wasters, Shane Ross & Nick Webb, 3,386

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Irish Top Ten Week Ending 04/12/2010

December 8, 2010 – 8:00 am

Christmas in Irish book terms is turning into a story of Penguins and Poetry.

Yet again Penguin group publishers are have an excellent week, With the return to the Top Ten of Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, Penguin has some four titles in the top ten and five in the Top Twenty. Like Penguin, the Hachette group of companies also have five titles in the Top Twenty including two in the top ten. However, this week, their previous number one, John Giles A Football Man has been thrown from its top spot bu Jamie Oliver’s 30 Minute Meals, a Penguin group title.

The other success story of the year is Soundings which has had an incredible run and looks set to run into Christmas as a favourite stocking filler. A very nice outcome for Gill & Macmillan.

1: Jamie’s 30-minute Meals, Jamie Oliver, 2,454
2: John Giles a Football Man, John Giles, 1,978
3: Guinness World Records 2011, Craig Glenday, 1,978
4: The Oh My God Delusion, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, 1,660
5: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth, Jeff Kinney, 1,485
6: Soundings:Poems We Did for Our Leaving Certificate, 1,385
7: Room, Emma Donoghue, 1,384
8: The Help, Kathryn Stockett, 1,302
9: Coming Home, Patricia Scanlan, 1,191
10: One Day, David Nicholls, 1,143

Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 4th Dec 2010

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G&M To Launch EBooks In 2011

December 6, 2010 – 8:37 am

Gill & Macmillan, the largest Irish-based publisher, is to launch consumer targeted ebooks in the first quarter of 2011.

According to Tony Hetherington, Digital Developments manager, the company will ‘focus on device linked stores as the way forward.’

Hetherington highlighted Amazon’s Kindle, Apple’s iPad which is linked to their iBooks and iBookstore and also Kobobooks which has an ereader as part of their offering. Currently, iBooks offers only free public domain titles to Irish readers.

Gill & Macmillan has been experimenting with digital books in its educational business for some time having launched an ereader trial as early as 2008.

Hetherington said that the company had previously hoped to launch before Christmas but it still needed to put ‘a couple of things in place.’

The company relaunched its website earlier this year with a new ecommerce engine and has rolled out a number of mini-sites to support its titles.

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Easons Agrees Agency Pricing Contract For EBooks With Two Publishers

December 3, 2010 – 3:33 pm

Stephen Boylan, Books Purchasing Manager at Easons with responsibility for ebooks has confirmed that Easons has signed Agency contracts with Hachette and HarperCollins.

Both publishers have also changed from wholesale to agency terms for ebooks in the UK, as have Canongate, Penguin and Simon & Schuster.

The new agreements mean that Easons, ‘currently have a mix of agency and wholesale pricing on their ebook site,’ according to Boylan.

Agency contracts change the basis of partnerships between retailers and publishers from a wholesale one to an agent based one for ebook sales. Instead of retailers getting a set discount off the list price of titles from the publisher and selling titles at whatever price they choose, the publisher instead sets the price and pays a commission to the retailer based on that selling price once an ebook sells.

Other publishers are likely to follow suit over the coming months. Tony Hetherington, Digital Development Manager at Gill & Macmillan, the largest Irish publisher, said that Gill & Macmillan will be introducing ebooks in the first quarter of 2011 and ‘will look to implement Agency pricing wherever we do business.’

Gareth Cuddy of ePubDirect, an Irish ebook technology firm, said that, ‘Hopefully the eBook selection in Ireland will increase for the many people suffering from a lack of available titles. We haven’t gone down the agency route for our own reasons, but we’re just glad to see the profile of eBooks raised in this country.’

Boylan said that Easons is, ‘keeping an open mind in relation to its [Agency pricing‘s] potential impact. It’s still early days, but we’re in close contact with the publishers and will keep discussions open with them about any future developments.’

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Landy, Donoghue & Binchy Among The Winners At The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards

November 26, 2010 – 2:22 pm

An emotional Emma Donoghue spoke of the importance of recognition by her homeland as she accepted the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel Of The Year Award at Thursday evening’s ‘Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards in the Round Room Of the Mansion House.

It was a theme echoed by many of the winners, including Maeve Binchy who was awarded with a lifetime achievement award by the guest of Honour for the evening, President Mary McAleese.

Perhaps the least surprising winner of the evening was Late Last show host, Ryan Tubridy who won the Newcomer Of The Year Award.

Donal Óg Cusack won the John Murray Listeners’ Choice Award, Donal Skehan won the IES Irish Published Book Of The Year, Neil Richardson won the Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book Of The Year, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly the Easons Popular Fiction Book Of The Year, Gene Kerrigan won the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Book Of The Year,  Niamh Sharkey took the Junior category of the DAA Irish Children’s Book Of The Year while Derek Landy took the senior category as well as accepting his Book of the Decade award.

Tom Owens, Trading Director Eason and Chairman of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards, said, ‘The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards allow us the opportunity to celebrate and honour Ireland’s best literary talent. This year’s winning authors illustrate the diversity and vibrancy of the Irish book world, and each book is an outstanding literary achievement in its own right. As a country, we should be incredibly proud of these authors and the wealth of home-grown talent we have on offer.’

The full list of winners
The Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year: Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador)
RTÉ Radio 1′s The John Murray Show Listeners’ Choice Award: Come What May by Donal Og Cusack (Penguin Ireland)
The Ireland AM Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year: Dark Times in the City by Gene Kerrigan (Vintage)
The Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year: A Coward If I Return A Hero If I Fall by Neil Richardson (O’Brien Press)
Eason Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year: The Oh My God Delusion by Ross O’Carroll Kelly (Penguin Ireland)
Energise Sport Irish Sports Book of the Year: A Football Man by John Giles (Hachette Books Ireland)
Irish Newcomer of the Year: JFK in Ireland: Four Days that Changed a President by Ryan Tubridy (Collins)
International Education Services Best Irish Published Book of the Year: Good Mood Food by Donal Skehan (Mercier)
The Dublin Airport Authority Irish Children’s Book of the Year:
Junior - On the Road with Mavis and Marge by Niamh Sharkey (Walker Books)
Senior – Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil by Derek Landy (Harper Collins Children’s Books)

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