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Irish Author Makes National Book Critics Circle Shortlist

24 January, 2011 · by Editor · in News

Irish Author Paul Murray has been shortlisted for the American National Book Critics Circle Fiction prize. His book, Skippy Dies, which was also Booker longlisted in 2010 joins Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, David Grossman and Hans Keilson in the fiction category….

Irish Author On The Costa Novel Award Short List

17 November, 2010 · by Editor · in News

Paul Murrary, whose Skippy Dies was longlisted for the Booker prize, has made the shortlist for the Costa Prize Novel Award. Murray’s is the only Booker nominated novel in an interesting list. It was published by Hamish Hamilton in the…

Eason Top Ten Ebooks ~ October 2010

1 November, 2010 · by Editor · in Books & Authors

One of the most interesting things about ebooks is that they seem to attract in their initial stages, string demand from fiction readers. Perhaps it is that their current formats are best suited to long form narrative. Whatever the reason,…

The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Shortlist Announced

28 October, 2010 · by Editor · in News

The shortlist for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards was announced this evening at an event in the Royal College Of Physicians on Kildare Street. Among those nominated are, Ryan Tubridy, Joseph O’Connor, Roddy Doyle, Colm Toibin, Colum McCann,…

Booker Longlisted Paul Murray Sells Next Novel

17 September, 2010 · by Editor · in Rights

Hamish Hamilton, who published Paul Murray’s Booker Longlisted Skippy Dies, will also publish his next book. It will be set in contemporary Dublin and narrated by Claude, a lonely French banker who believes himself to be cursed by blandness and…

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