NOBEL LITERATURE LAUREATE Seamus Heaney is to be honoured at next month’s Bord Gáis Irish Book Awards with a lifetime achievement award.

The shortlist of books up for prizes at the event on 24 November are:

Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year:

• Solace by Belinda McKeon (Picador)
• On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry (Faber)
• The Cold Eye of Heaven by Christine Dwyer Hickey (Atlantic)
• City of Bohane by Kevin Barry (Random House)
• The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (Random House)
• Mistaken by Neil Jordan (John Murray)

RTÉ Radio 1’s The John Murray Show Listeners’ Choice Award:

• A visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Corsair)
• The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (Granta)
• How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran (Ebury)
• How the Light Gets in by Mary McEvoy (Hachette)
• The Club by Christy O’Connor (Penguin Ireland)
• My Dad was nearly James Bond by Des Bishop (Penguin Ireland)

The Ireland AM Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year:

• A Death in Summer by Benjamin Black (Mantle)
• The Bloody Meadow by William Ryan (Mantle)
• Bloodland by Alan Glynn (Faber)
• The Reckoning by Jane Casey (Ebury)
• Taboo by Casey Hill (Simon & Schuster)
• Absolute Zero Cool by Declan Burke (Liberties Press)

The Argosy Irish Non-Fiction Book of the Year:

• How Ireland Really Went Bust by Matt Cooper (Penguin Ireland)
• Easy Meals by Rachel Allen (Collins)
• Circles Around the Sun by Molly McCloskey (Penguin Ireland)
• Moscow, December 25, 1991 by Conor O’Clery (Transworld Ireland)
• Just Joe: My Autobiography by Joe Duffy (Transworld Ireland)
• Anglo Republic by Simon Carswell (Penguin Ireland)

Eason Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year:

• The Time of my Life by Cecilia Ahern (Harper Collins)
• All For You by Sheila O’Flanagan (Headline)
• Me and My Sisters by Sinead Moriarty (Penguin Ireland)
• Love and Marriage by Patricia Scanlan (Transworld Ireland)
• NAMA Mia! by Ross O’Carroll Kelly (Penguin Ireland)
• The Pink Ladies Club by Emma Hannigan (Poolbeg Press)

Irish Sports Book of the Year:

• My Autobiography by AP McCoy (Orion)
• Engage: The Fall and Rise of Matt Hampson by Paul Kimmage (Simon & Schuster)
• Walk On: My Life in Red by Ronnie Whelan and Tommy Conlon (Simon & Schuster)
• A Parish Far from Home by Philip O’Connor (Gill & Macmillan)
• Joking Apart: My Autobiography by Donncha O’Callaghan (Transworld Ireland)
• Inside the Peloton by Nicolas Roche (Transworld Ireland)

Sunday Independent Best Irish Newcomer of the Year:

• The Tenderloin by John Butler (Picador)
• Solace by Belinda McKeon (Picador)
• The Better Half by Sarah Harte (Penguin Ireland)
• The Lingerie Designer by Siobhan McKenna (Poolbeg Press)
• Salty Baby by Orla Tinsley (Hachette)
• My Dad was nearly James Bond by Des Bishop (Penguin Ireland)

International Education Services Best Irish Published Book of the Year:

• Catherine’s Family Kitchen by Catherine Fulvio (Gill & Macmillan)
• Make Bake Love by Lilly Higgins (Gill & Macmillan)
• Revolution by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc (Mercier)
• The Other Ireland by Mary Jones (Gill & Macmillan)
• Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom by Tim Robinson (Penguin Ireland)
• Gorgeous to Go by Aisling McDermott (Gill & Macmillan)

Specsavers Irish Children’s Book of the Year:

Junior

• Adam’s World of Wonders by Benji Bennett (Adams Printing Press)
• The Lonely Beast by Chris Judge (Andersen Press)
• Sally Go Round the Stars by Sarah Webb and Steve McCarthy with Claire Ranson (O’Brien Press)
• Stuck by Oliver Jeffers (Harper Collins Childrens)
• Marco Moves In by Gerry Boland (O’Brien Press)

Senior

• The Saga of Larten Crepsley: Ocean of Blood by Darren Shan (Harper Collins Childrens)
• Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer by Derek Landy (Harper Collins Childrens)
• And For Your Information… by Denise Deegan (Hachette)
• Arthur Quinn and the World Serpent by Alan Early (Mercier)
• The Real Rebecca by Anna Carey (O’Brien)

To vote on the best books of last year, go to the Irish Book Awards website.