Emma Donoghue Makes The Orange Prize Shortlist
Emma Donoghue has made the Orange Prize shortlist with her novel, Room. The Orange Prize for Fiction is the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman and this year is celebrating its sixteenth anniversary. The winner…
Irish Top Ten Week Ending 26/02/2011
While fiction seems to be doing rather well holding the top three slots, the general market is down on last week. As the dynamics show, the Top Ten volume is down 11.13% from last week. That marks a dramatic decrease…
Emma Donoghue On Richard & Judy’s Spring Picks
Irish-born novelist, Emma Donoghue has been chosen by Richard and Judy for their Spring Book club at WH Smiths. Donoghue’s Room, which was nominated for the Booker Prize in 2010 and earned the writer an Irish Book Award, was chosen as…
Irish Top Ten Week Ending 25/12/2010
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…
Top Ten Week Ending 18/12/2010
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…
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