Irish Top Ten Week Ending 30/10/2010
A good week for Ryan Tubridy, Soundings and Dan Shanahan. Tubridy enters the top ten after just a week of sales and looks set to do well if he can maintain sales of that magnitude. Soundings re-enters the chart after a…
Donoghue Misses Out
Emma Donoghue’s Room has missed out on the Booker prize as Howard Jacobson’s ‘The Finkler Question which was published by Bloomsbury was announced as the winner. Jacobson’s win marks a defeat for the favourite, C by Tom McCarthy who Ladbrookes…
The Slap Tops Irish Booker Sales
Sales for Christos Tsiolkas’ The Slap are well ahead of the rest of the Booker Longlisted titles with 7,151 paperbacks sold up to 7th August. The Australian born author has sold more than twice as many books as his closest…
Two Irish Writers On The Booker Short list
Irish authors Emma Donoghue and Paul Murray have been included in the 2010 Man Booker longlist where they join eleven other authors on this year’s 13 strong list. Donoghue’s Room, is published by Picador and Murrary’s Skippy Dies is published…
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