The shortlist for this year’s Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards was announced today.
Eason Novel of the Year
All We Shall Know – Donal Ryan (Doubleday Ireland)
Days Without End – Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)
Solar Bones – Mike McCormack (Tramp Press)
The Lesser Bohemians – Eimear McBride (Faber & Faber)
The Wonder – Emma Donoghue (Pan Macmillan/Picador)
This Must Be The Place – Maggie O’Farrell (Tinder Press)
The Journal.ie Best Irish published Book of the Year
All Through the Night – Edited by Marie Heaney (Poetry Ireland)
Dublin since 1922 – Tim Carey (Hachette Books Ireland)
Looking Back: The Changing Faces of Ireland – Eric Luke (The O’Brien Press)
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks – Edited by Fintan O’Toole (Royal Irish Academy)
The Invisible Art: A Century of Music in Ireland 1916-2016 – Michael Dervan (New Island Books)
The Glass Shore – Sinéad Gleeson (New Island Books)
Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year
Himself – Jess Kidd (Canongate Books)
Red Dirt – EM Reapy (Head of Zeus)
The Last Days of Summer – Vanessa Ronan (Penguin Ireland)
The Maker of Swans – Paraic O’Donnell (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
The Things I Should Have Told You – Carmel Harrington (HarperCollins)
This Living and Immortal Thing – Austin Duffy (Granta Books)
National Book Tokens Nonfiction Book of the Year
I Read The News Today, Oh Boy – Paul Howard (Picador)
Ireland The Autobiography – John Bowman (Penguin Ireland)
The Hurley Maker’s Son – Patrick Deeley (Doubleday Ireland)
The Supreme Court – Ruadhán Mac Cormaic (Penguin Ireland)
Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir – John Banville & Paul Joyce (Hachette Books Ireland)
When Ideas Matter – Michael D Higgins (Head of Zeus)
RTE Radio One Ryan Tubridy Show Listener’s Choice
Lying In Wait – Liz Nugent (Penguin Ireland)
Conclave – Robert Harris (Hutchinson)
Dictatorship: My Teenage War With OCD – Rebecca Ryan (On Stream Publications Ltd)
All Through the Night – Edited by Marie Heaney (Poetry Ireland)
All We Shall Know – Donal Ryan (Transworld Ireland)
Victim Without A Face – Stefan Ahnhem (Head of Zeus)
Listowel Writers’ Week Poem of the Year
In Glasnevin – Jane Clarke (From: The Irish Times)
Patagonia – Emma McKervey (From: The Compass Magazine)
Suppose I Lost – Andrew Soye (From: Abridged Magazine)
Love / Hotel / Love – Michael Naghtan Shanks (From: Poetry Ireland Review)
Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year (Junior)
A Child of Books – Sam Winston and Oliver Jeffers (Walker Books)
Goodnight Everyone – Chris Haughton (Walker Books)
Historopedia – Fatti and John Burke (Gill Books)
Pigín of Howth – Kathleen Watkins (Gill Books)
Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit’s Bad Habits – Julian Gough & Jim Field (Hachette Children’s Group)
Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year (Senior)
Knights of the Borrowed Dark – Dave Rudden (Puffin)
The Book of Shadows – E.R. Murray (Mercier Press)
The Making of Mollie – Anna Carey (The O’Brien Press)
Needlework – Deirdre Sullivan (Little Island Books)
Nothing Tastes As Good – Claire Hennessy (Hot Key Books)
Flawed – Cecelia Ahern (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
Avonmore Cookbook of the Year
Recipes For A Nervous Breakdown – Sophie White (Gill Books)
The World of The Happy Pear – Stephen and David Flynn (Penguin Ireland)
Natural Born Feeder – Roz Purcell (Gill Books)
The Little Green Spoon – Indy Power (Ebury Press)
Neven Maguire’s Complete Family Cookbook – Neven Maguire (Gill Books)
The Brother Hubbard – Garrett Fitzgerald (Gill Books)
Irish Independent Popular Fiction Book of the Year
Game of Throw-Ins – Ross O’Carroll-Kelly (Penguin Ireland)
Lyrebird – Cecelia Ahern (HarperCollins)
Rebel Sisters – Marita Conlon-McKenna (Transworld Ireland)
The Girl From The Savoy – Hazel Gaynor (HarperCollins)
The Privileged – Emily Hourican (Hachette Books Ireland)
Holding – Graham Norton (Hodder & Stoughton)
Ireland AM Popular Nonfiction Book of the Year
Adventures of a Wonky-Eyed Boy – Jason Byrne (Gill Books)
Fat Chance – Louise McSharry (Penguin Ireland)
Making It Up As I Go Along – Marian Keyes (Michael Joseph)
Pippa – Pippa O’Connor (Penguin Ireland)
Talking to Strangers – Michael Harding (Hachette Books Ireland)
Mr. Pussy: Before I Forget to Remember – Alan Amsby/David Kenny (New Island Books)
Bord Gáis Energy Sports Book of the Year
Blood, Sweat & McAteer – Jason McAteer (Hachette Books Ireland)
Coolmore Stud, Ireland’s Greatest Sporting Success Story – Alan Conway (Mercier Press)
My Life in Rugby – Donal Lenihan (Transworld Ireland)
Out of Control – Cathal Mc Carron (Simon & Schuster)
The Battle – Paul O’Connell (Penguin Ireland)
Win or Learn – John Kavanagh (Penguin Ireland)
Writing.ie Short Story of the Year
Here We Are – Lucy Caldwell (Faber&Faber)
K-K-K – Lauren Foley (Ol Society – Australia)
The Visit – Orla McAlinden (Sowilo Press)
Green Amber Red – Jane Casey (New Island)
The Birds of June – John Connell (Granta Magazine)
What a River Remembers of its Course – Gerard Beirne (Numero Cinq Magazine)
Crime Fiction Award
Distress Signals – Catherine Ryan Howard (Atlantic Books (Corvus)
Little Bones – Sam Blake (Bonnier Zaffre)
Lying In Wait – Liz Nugent (Penguin Ireland)
The Constant Soldier – William Ryan (Mantle)
The Drowning Child – Alex Barclay (HarperCollins)
The Trespasser – Tana French (Hachette Ireland)
Congratulations to all the nominees.
You can vote for your favourite books here.
The winners will be announced in Dublin on November 16th.
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