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5 new books to read this week
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks has recently been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction… Fiction 1. Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry is published...
Booker Prize semifinalists include 4 Irish writers, 4 debut novelists
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAuthor Sebastian Barry, who has received four previous nominations for the Booker Prize and twice...
Booker Prize 2023: Longlist announced with 10 first-time nominees and a new record for Irish authors
The Independent via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe Booker Prize longlist for 2023 has been announced, featuring 10 authors who have never featured...
Gordon Brown and Douglas Stuart join book festival line-up
Press Association News via AOL· 1 year agoBooker prize-winning author Douglas Stuart and former prime minister Gordon Brown will be among...
The Secret Scripture Streaming: Watch & Stream Online via Peacock
COMINGSOON.net via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe Secret Scripture is an Irish film released in 2016, adapted from Sebastian Barry’s novel of the...
Kevin Barry: ‘People expect me to be a raging alcoholic – but it’s all oatmilk and yoga these days’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoIn his cheerfully chilly house in a small Irish village in County Sligo, Kevin Barry is explaining...
Caribbean writer takes Walter Scott fiction prize
BBC via Yahoo News· 4 days agoCaribbean writer Kevin Jared Hosein has won the 2024 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. His novel Hungry Ghosts - which tells the story of marginalised Hindu communities in Trinidad ...
Walter Scott Prize shortlist nominees announced
Press Association News via AOL· 1 year agoNominees for a prestigious award named after one of Scotland’s best-known authors have been announced. The Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction was...
The week's bestselling books, April 28
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 months ago(Los Angeles Times) Hardcover fiction 1. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”...
Donal Ryan Heads Up Ireland’s Throng of Literary Geniuses
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSimone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images“In every great Russian writer,” wrote Virginia Woolf, “we...
