GET READY TO clear some space on your bookshelves and dust off those book tokens, because we now know what the best Irish books of 2017 are.
This evening, the literary world gathered for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017, where new and established faces were there to hear the winners named from a slew of categories.
Here’s who came out on top:
Atlas of the Irish Revolution – John Crowley, Donál Ó Drisceoil, Mike Murphy and John Borgonovo (Cork University Press)
A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea – Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood – Sarah Webb illustrated by Steve Mc Carthy (The O’ Brien Press)
Stand by Me – Judi Curtin (The O’ Brien Press)
Tangleweed and Brine – Deirdre Sullivan illustrated by Karen Vaughan (Little Island)
Midwinter Break – Bernard MacLaverty (Jonathan Cape)
The Break – Marian Keyes (Michael Joseph)
The Therapy House – Julie Parsons (New Island Books)
I Found my Tribe – Ruth Fitzmaurice (Chatto & Windus)
Wounds: A Memoir of War & Love – Fergal Keane (Williams Collins)
Motherfoclóir – Darach Ó Séaghdha (Head of Zeus)
Cook Well, Eat Well – Rory O’ Connell (Gill Books)
The Choice – Philly McMahon with Niall Kelly (Gill Books)
he: A novel – John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton)
Seven Sugar Cubes – Clodagh Beresford Dunne (From the Irish Times)
Back to Bones – Christine Dwyer Hickey (Longlisted for Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award)
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