Author Jon Ransom: ‘My mother was remarkable. She gave me a passion to tell stories’
The author on his two wins for LGBTQ+ literature, how Norfolk has shaped him, and his ‘filmic’ style of writing
Kate O’Brien Prize shortlist revealed
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Dublin Literary Award 2025: Seven Irish authors on longlist for €100,000 prize
Irish authors Paul Lynch, Colin Barrett, John Boyne, Sinéad Gleeson and Nuala O’Connor also among 71 nominees for €100,000 fiction prize
Irish author Colin Barrett’s Wild Houses wins Nero debut fiction prize
Nero Book Awards judges praise novel for ‘sheer quality of its writing ... brilliant dialogue ... characters ... wit and humour’
Author Nicola Dinan: ‘Working as a lawyer taught me how much can turn on a single word’
Sally Rooney and Jennifer Egan would be on the dream dinner guest list of the London-based writer, winner of the Polari Debut Prize for her novel Bellies
Dead poets live at the Gate
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Irish Times Eason offer is Jane Casey’s The Outsider
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Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These is Ireland’s bestselling book of 2024
Colm Tóibín, Johnny Sexton, Sally Rooney and Graham Norton also feature in the top five
Read this and weep: Books that made writers cry
John Boyne, Edel Coffey, Ferdia Lennon, Sarah Gilmartin and a dozen other authors and critics on books that had a profound emotional effect on them
Nonfiction books to look out for in 2025: Leo Varadkar and Brenda Fricker memoirs among year’s most anticipated titles
Books on the Famine, the Troubles, the Aran Islands and Gaza, and an account by the daughter of Dominique Pelicot of how she and her mother Gisèle rebuilt their lives, are also due out
Fiction to look out for in 2025: From Eimear McBride to Ben Okri
Emma Donoghue, Joseph O’Connor and Colum McCann are just some of the big names with new books coming out in 2025. Here’s our pick of fiction for the year ahead
Franco-Irish literary award shortlist revealed
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Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan wins An Post Irish Book of the Year 2024
Author repeats success with sequel to his debut The Spinning Heart, which won award in 2012
Sebastian Barry is named a Chevalier in France’s Ordre des Arts et Lettres
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Ecology lecturer wins Moth Nature Writing Prize
Judge Cal Flyn likens Anna Selby’s winning poem to Seamus Heaney and Edwin Morgan