Book of the Decade
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The first volume in Derek Landy's brilliant Skulduggery Pleasant
series.
Nominated
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This novel depicting festive family life at its worst is among her
best.
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Lucy’s story is as beautiful as anything the master storyteller has
ever written.
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This brilliant Famine epic represents a timely reminder of an
uncomfortably recent past.
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Patrick McCabe's finest hour, Winterwood combines the creepy
suspense of Psycho with the black humour of Irvine Welsh.
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The sequel to The Woman Who Walked into Doors and every bit as
good.
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John Boyne’s crossover Holocaust tale of innocence lost and
humanity has achieved classic status.
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A spellbinding novel from one of a new generation of Irish writers
which casts the Irish novel in a new and different light.
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The story of centenarian mental hospital patient Roseanne McNulty
is shocking and beautiful.
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Maeve Binchy tells a story of family, friends, patients, and staff of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new Ireland.
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Precisely controlled and subtly-achieved, the story of Eilis Lacey’s
odyssey rounded off a triumphant decade for one of our finest
writers.
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This outstanding novel calls into question the ideas that we hold
about who we are and shows how the past informs the present.
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Dennis O’Driscoll’s subtle questioning sheds a personal light on
the artistic and ethical challenges faced by our greatest poet.
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If 9/11 was the great trauma of the decade, Colum McCann’s novel
was one of the great fictional accounts of that terrible event.
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A fascinating analysis of the construction boom which
disproportionately powered the transformation of Ireland in the
Celtic Tiger era.
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Four very different women, one awfully charming man and the dark
secret that binds them all in Marian Keyes’ finest novel to date.
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The contradictions, pressures and dilemmas of an unusual
upbringing provide the material for this powerful Irish memoir.
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A fabulously rich tale of music, myth and magic with a hint of
murder thrown in for good measure.
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A fitting coda to John McGahern’s writing career which was one of
exceptional brilliance.
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Evokes the camaraderie and humour and the divided loyalties that
many Irish soldiers felt as the Easter Rising broke out.
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David McWilliams’ brilliant survey of boom-times Ireland
celebrated the teeming diversity of an economy and a society on
the move.
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The candid and searing autobiography of an iconic football
presence and a great Irish soccer legend.
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This is a stark and moving tale of an ordinary family blighted by a
history of abuse and concealment.
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Against the landscape of an Ireland wrestling with its past, these
stories beautifully articulate the yearnings of the human heart.
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If any character epitomised the zeitgeist of Celtic Tiger Ireland then
surely it was Paul Howard’s Ross O’Carroll-Kelly.
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No writer has chronicled The Troubles better than David Park, and
in this novel he brings together four men deeply implicated in the
moral miasma of the past.
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A profound and benign book which deals with the realisation that
local community is precious and must be nurtured.
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Set during the Troubles in the North, Bog Child explores the
sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength
of the human spirit.
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Cathy Kelly’s flair for creating warm, realistic and thoroughly
likeable characters permeates this terrific novel.
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Few weddings go as planned, especially when there is tension
between families and the events that occur at this particular
wedding will have far reaching repercussions.
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John Connolly's visionary brand of neo-noir written in fine, supple,
sensuous prose.
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Bill Cullen's wonderful account of coming of age in 1950's Dublin
became one of the bestselling Irish memoirs ever.
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Des Ekin’s extraordinary tale is popular history of the finest sort
but reads like a historical thriller.
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Eoin Colfer’s wonderful series, begun in 2001, has become a
classic of the genre.
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A dramatic and touching tale of a bigamist exposed in
extraordinary circumstances.
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This masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected won the
2005 Booker Prize.
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A classic bildungsroman, Julia Kelly’s debut novel won the Irish
Book Awards Best Newcomer of the Year Award in 2007.
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Tim Robinson's extraordinary engagement with the region, its
folklore and its often terrible history produced a work as beautiful
and surprising as its subject.
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Tana French's stunnning debut novel kick-started her promising
career as a crime writer.
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A devastating, yet hilarious, depiction of a Dublin family told
through the charismatic voice of a little girl.
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Ed Moloney's book has become the classic analysis of the period
known as The Troubles.
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The Master is a powerful account of the hazards of putting the life
of the mind before affairs of the heart.
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Kevin Barry's superb debut collection of sharply-observed and
riotously entertaining stories.
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Edna O’Brien tough uncompromising novel about a brutal murder
on the west coast caused a major furore at the time of publication.
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In 2002, no other public figure divided opinion like Keano.
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Ronan Bennett’s extraordinarily powerful novel is set in England in
the 1630s.
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Diarmaid Ferriter re-examines the extraordinary career of the most
significant politician of modern Irish history.
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Another great 9/11 novel by an Irish writer
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Evokes McGahern's genius for transforming the simple rituals of
country living into universal truths.
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Cecelia Ahern’s stunning debut novel.