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Lifestyle Book of the Year

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Lifestyle Book of the Year

About the award

Such has been the proliferation of books relating to lifestyle matters such as diet, mental health and wellness, there was a strong case for setting up a special category and we are grateful to new sponsors, Bookstation, for agreeing to sponsor The Bookstation Lifestyle Book of the Year.

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The 2021 Shortlist

This Boys Heart: Scenes from an Irish Childhood
John Creedon
Reeling in the Queers: Tales of Ireland’s LGBTQ Past
Páraic Kerrigan
1588, The Spanish Armada and the 24 Ships Lost on Ireland’s Shores
Michael B. Barry
The Irish Words You Should Know
Hector Ó hEochagáin
Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives
Hélène O’Keeffe, John Crowley, Donal Ó Drisceoil, John Borgonovo & Mike Murphy, Foreword by Michael D. Higgins
The Enchanted Bay: Tales and Legends from Ernie O’Malley’s Irish Folklore Collection
Cormac K.H. O'Malley & Patrick J. Mahoney
Revolutionary Times – Ireland 1913-23: The Forging of a Nation
Mike Cronin & Mark Duncan
Finding Mangan
Bridget Hourican
Well, Holy God: My Life as an Irish, Catholic, Agnostic Correspondent
Patsy McGarry
Leaning on Gates
Seamus O'Rourke
Nature Boy: A journey of birdsong and belonging
Seán Ronayne
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals
Maurice J Casey
Who Killed Una Lynskey?: A True Story of Murder, Vigilante Justice and the Garda ‘Heavy Gang’
Mick Clifford
Land Is All That Matters: The Struggle That Shaped Irish History
Myles Dungan
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020
Diarmaid Ferriter
A History of Ireland in Ten Body Parts
Dr Ian Miller
Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives
Hélène O’Keeffe, John Crowley, Donal Ó Drisceoil, John Borgonovo & Mike Murphy, Foreword by Michael D. Higgins
Twelve Sheep: Life lessons from a lambing season
John Connell
Irish Food History: A Companion
Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire & Dorothy Cashman
The Magic of an Irish Rainforest: A Visual Journey
Eoghan Daltun
Murder at Lordship: Inside the Hunt for a Detective’s Killer
Pat Marry & Robin Schiller
Money: A Story of Humanity
David McWilliams
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets
Clair Wills
Sprout & Co Saladology: Fresh Ideas for Delicious Salads
Theo Kirwan
Eat Out at Home
Neven Maguire
Irish Food History: A Companion
Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire & Dorothy Cashman
The Home Sommelier: Your down-to-earth guide to choosing good wine
Brigid O'Hora
Dad Food
Dylan McGrath
What We Know Now
Jenny Kelly & Mairéad Ronan
Season: Master the elements of amazing taste
Mark Moriarty
It’s All Too Much: Practical ways to pause panic attacks, reduce overwhelm and anxiety, and rediscover everyday joy
Allison Keating
The Complete Book of Wild Swimming in Ireland
Maureen McCoy & Paul McCambridge
Gaeilge i Mo Chroí – Irish In My Heart: Your Guide to Loving and Living the Irish Language
Molly Nic Céile
Some of Our Parts: Why we are more than the labels we live by
Laura Kennedy
The Hike Life: 50 More to Explore
Rozanna Purcell
The Golden Hare
Paddy Donnelly
Obsessed: The Autobiography
Johnny Sexton & Peter O'Reilly
Blood and Thunder: Rugby and Irish Life: A History
Liam O'Callaghan
The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the other 99%
Conor Niland & Gavin Cooney
Unladylike: A History of Ladies Gaelic Football
Hayley Kilgallon
The Great Discovery
Peter Donnelly
Where to Hide a Star
Oliver Jeffers
Evil Duck and the Feather of Fortune
Chris Judge
Nina Peanut Is Amazing
Sarah Bowie
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Irish Lighthouses
David Hare, Illustrated by Linda Fährlin
Fixing Mum and Dad
Sinéad Moriarty
Molly Malone & Bram Stoker in The Riddle of the Disappearing Dickens
Alan Nolan
The Weather Girls
Sarah Webb
Something’s About To Blow Up
Sam Blake
Braids Take A Day
Zainab Boladale
The Traitor in the Game
Triona Campbell
Where the Heart Should Be
Sarah Crossan
The Dagger and the Flame
Catherine Doyle
A Stranger in the Family
Jane Casey
Witness 8
Steve Cavanagh
Where They Lie
Claire Coughlan
Sisters of the Moon
Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
Somebody Knows
Michelle McDonagh
Someone in the Attic
Andrea Mara
When We Were Silent
Fiona McPhillips
Old Romantics
Maggie Armstrong
Evenings and Weekends
Oisín McKenna
Spirit Level
Richy Craven
The Amendments
Niamh Mulvey
The Coast Road
Alan Murrin
Glorious Exploits
Ferdia Lennon
Wild Houses
Colin Barrett
The Heart in Winter
Kevin Barry
The Women Behind the Door
Roddy Doyle
Our London Lives
Christine Dwyer Hickey
Seaborne
Nuala O'Connor
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
Heart, Be at Peace
Donal Ryan
Into the Storm
Cecelia Ahern
Whatever Happened to Birdy Troy?
Rachael English
The Bookshop Ladies
Faith Hogan
My Favourite Mistake
Marian Keyes
Frankie
Graham Norton
Don’t Look Back in Ongar
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
The Heart in Winter
Kevin Barry
In Her Place
Edel Coffey
The Alternatives
Caoilinn Hughes
The Last Disco: The story of the Stardust tragedy
Sean Murray, Christine Bohan & Nicky Ryan
Long Island
Colm Tóibín
The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the other 99%
Conor Niland & Gavin Cooney
Long Island
Colm Tóibín
Sally Rooney
Donal Ryan
Geansaithe Móra
Gearóidín Nic Cárthaigh
Jo Spain
Sheila O’Flanagan
Eoin Colfer
Colm Tóibín
Saighdiúir
Cathal Ó Searcaigh
Flaitheas
Proinsias Mac a'Bhaird
Mná
Daithí Ó Muirí
Cuimhní Poircealláin agus Scéalta Eile
Majella Ní Dhomhnaill
Súile Éisc agus Scéalta Eile
Michelle Nic Pháidín
Margaret Cahill for “Growth”
Kathleen Macadam for “Valentine’s Day”
Dónal O’Sullivan for “Estepona”
Stephen Brophy for “Night Shift”
Claire Bamber for “Stick Shift”
David O’Neill for “Everything is in Place”
Bill Richardson for ‘It’s Hard To Burn A Word’ and ”Herding
Féilim James for ‘Dream of an Atrocity’
Eoin Devereux for ‘Pravda’
Agnieszka Filipek for ‘Typewriter’ and ‘Provence’
Colette Colfer for ‘Maure ‘Soshin’ O’Hallroan’ and ‘Halo’
Eilín de Paor for ‘Onionskin’
American Mother
Colum McCann & Diane Foley
Joe Canning: My Story
Joe Canning & Vincent Hogan
My Autobiography
Davy Russell & Donn McClean
Beanie the Bansheenie
Eoin Colfer & Steve McCarthy
Over the Red-Brick Chimney
Una Leavy & Shannon Bergin
Milly McCarthy and the Sports Day Shambles
Leona Forde & Karen Harte
Fia and the Last Snow Deer
Eilish Fisher & Dermot Flynn
The History of Information
Chris Haughton & Loonie Park
Strange Sally Diamond
Liz Nugent
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
Teasáras Gaeilge-Béarla | Irish-English Thesaurus
Garry Bannister
The Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park
Donal Fallon
Sunday Miscellany
Sarah Binchy
A Nation Is Born
Michael B. Barry and John O'Byrne
A Place to Play
Humphrey Kelleher
Wild Ireland
Carsten Krieger
Finucane & Me
John Clarke
We Need to Talk
Dr Tony Holohan
Madhouse
PJ Gallagher
Raised by the Zoo
Gerry Creighton
Bored of Lunch
Nathan Anthony
A Woman in Defence
Karina Molloy
Poor
Katriona O'Sullivan
Paradiso
Denis Cotter
The Gathered Table
Gather & Gather Ireland
Spice Box
Sunil Ghai
Glow
Georgie Crawford
Home Kitchen
Donal Skehan
Flavour
Mark Moriarty
The Hike Life
Rozanna Purcell
This is My Sea
Miriam Mulcahy
From Malin Head to Mizen Head
Joanne Donnelly
Rough Beast
Máiría Cahill
It’s Probably Your Hormones
Dr. Mary Ryan
Home is Where the Start Is
Richard Hogan
Who Really Owns Ireland?
Matt Cooper
Dirty Linen
Martin Doyle
Cracking the Case
Christy Mangan
Born to be a Footballer
Liam Brady
A Thread of Violence
Mark O'Connell
The Long Game
Aoife Moore
This is the Life
Ciarán Murphy
Sport in Modern Irish Life
Paul Rouse
In the Blood
Pat Spillane
Under Water
Claire Walsh
The Close
Jane Casey
The Lock-Up
John Banville
The Trap
Catherine Ryan Howard
No One Saw a Thing
Andrea Mara
Kill For Me Kill For You
Steve Cavanagh
The Red Bird Sings
Aoife Fitzpatrick
The Celestial Realm
Molly Hennigan
The Couples
Lauren Mackenzie
Kala
Colin Walsh
Though the Bodies Fall
Noel O'Regan
Close to Home
Michael Magee
Queen Bee
Ciara Geraghty
The Last Lifeboat
Hazel Gaynor
Aisling Ever After
Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
The Lodgers
Eithne Shortall
My Hot Friend
Sophie White
Camino Royale
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
So Late in the Day
Claire Keegan
How to Build a Boat
Elaine Feeney
Soldier Sailor
Claire Kilroy
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
My Father’s House
Joseph O’Connor
Social Capital
Aoife Barry
Poor
Katriona O'Sullivan
Juno Loves Legs
Karl Geary
The Grass Ceiling
Eimear Ryan
Strange Sally Diamond
Liz Nugent
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray
Daughter of Winter and Twilight
Helen Corcoran
What Walks These Halls
Amy Clarkin
Something Terrible Happened Last Night
Sam Blake
Black & Irish
Leon Diop and Briana Fitzsimons
A Million to One
Adiba Jaigirdar
Wise Creatures
Deirdre Sullivan
Milly McCarthy and the Irish Dancing Disaster
Leona Forde
The Girl who Fell to Earth
Patricia Forde
Sally in the City of Dreams
Judi Curtin
The Silver Road
Sinéad O'Hart
Gods Don’t Cry
Ellen Ryan
I am the Wind
Lucinda Jacob and Sarah Webb
Kevin’s in A Mood
Sarah Bowie
The Slug and the Snail
Oein DeBhairduin
Three Tasks for a Dragon
Eoin Colfer & P.J. Lynch
Wild City
Ashwin Chacko
Standing on One Leg is Hard
Erika McGann & Clive McFarland
The President’s Dog
Peter Donnelly
Peace Process
Barbara Byar
A Legacy to Seven Men I’ve Loved
Audrey Molloy
The Island
Olivia Kiernan
The Story of Elizabeth
Celia de Fréine
In the Same Darkness
Jennifer McMahon
Table Two
Owen Gallagher
Lullaby Before Leaving
Theodore Deppe
Vectors in Kabul
Mary O'Donnell
Ag Dul i bhFad
Alan Titley
Imram agus scéalta eile
Róise Ní Bhaoill
Ceallach
Diarmuid Johnson
Sa Pholl Báite
Anna Heussaff
Béal na Péiste
Fionntán de Brún
Wales
Thomas Morris
Claire Keegan
Joseph O’Connor
Such a Pretty Face
Moïra Fowley
Lucinda Riley
Liz Nugent
Sebastian Barry
The Wren, The Wren
Anne Enright
Old God’s Time
Sebastian Barry
Listen to the Land Speak
Manchán Magan
Lessons from the Bench
Judge Gillian Hussey (ghostwriter Rachel Pierce)
Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber
Sean O'Driscoll
Gaffs
Rory Hearne
Fierce Appetites
Elizabeth Boyle
Sarah Webb
Sally Rooney
Roisin Meaney
Louise O’Neill
John Boyne
Catherine Ryan Howard
Twin Crowns
Katherine Webber and Catherine Doyle
Truth Be Told
Sue Divin
The Gifts that Bind Us
Caroline O'Donoghue
The Asparagus Bunch
Jessica Scott-Whyte
Rock Paper Killers
Alexia Mason
Let’s Talk
Richie Sadlier
The Rodfather
Roddy Collins with Paul Howard
The Game
Tadhg Coakely
Point to Point
Healy Racing, with words by Richard Pugh
Life Begins in Leitrim
Zak Moradi with Niall Kelly
Kellie
Kellie Harrington with Roddy Doyle
A History of the GAA in 100 Objects
Siobhán Doyle
Sheila Armstrong
Red Market
Wendy Erskine
Mathematics
Rebecca Miller
The Chekhovians
Roisín O’Donnell
Sleep Watchers
Neil Tully
Miles of Bad Road
Nuala O’Connor
This Small Giddy Life
What Eden Did Next
Sheila O'Flanagan
Once Upon a Time in Donnybrook
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
Idol
Louise O'Neill
Forever Home
Graham Norton
Duffy and Son
Damien Owens
Again, Rachel
Marian Keyes
Paul McMahon
What Man Doesn't
Martina Dalton
Wedding Dress
Jim McElroy
Unmaking His Chair
Michael Longley
Amelia's Model
Trespasses
Louise Kennedy
The Raptures
Jan Carson
The Queen of Dirt Island
Donal Ryan
The Marriage Portrait
Maggie O'Farrell
The Colony
Audrey Magee
Seven Steeples
Sara Baume
There’s Been a Little Incident
Alice Ryan
The Amusements
Aingeala Flannery
Speechless
Fiacre Ryan
None of This is Serious
Catherine Prasifka
My Fourth Time, We Drowned
Sally Hayden
What Every Woman Needs to Know About Her Gut
Barbara Ryan and Elaine McGowan
The Homemade Year
Lilly Higgins
The Female Factor
Dr Hazel Wallace
Still Points
Brother Richard
Climate Worrier
Colm O'Regan
An Irish Atlantic Rainforest
Eoghan Daltun
EL
Thaddeus Ó Buachalla
Súil an Daill
Darach Ó Scolaí
Bádh B’fhéidir
Seán Ó Muireagáin
An Dara Rogha
Celia de Fréine
Bláth na dTulach
Various
The Interview
Gill Perdue
The Accomplice
Steve Cavanagh
Run Time
Catherine Ryan Howard
Remember My Name
Sam Blake
Hide and Seek
Andrea Mara
Breaking Point
Edel Coffey
The GIY Diaries
Michael Kelly, illustrated by Sarah Kilcoyne
The Daly Dish
Gina Daly, Karol Daly
Sweet Therapy
Una Leonard
Lush
Daniel Lambert
Lili’s Family Favourites
Lili Forberg
Bake
Graham Herterich
The Truth About Riley
Sinéad Moriarty
The Lost Girl King
Catherine Doyle
The Great Irish History Book
Myles Dungan, illustrated by Alan Dunne
The Day I Got Trapped in My Brain
Amy Huberman, illustrations by Katie Kear
Girls Who Slay Monsters
Ellen Ryan, illustrated by Shona Shirley Macdonald
Frankie’s World
Aoife Dooley
Sir Adam the Brave and the Moody Monsters
David King, illustrated by Rhiannon Archard
Meanwhile Back on Earth
Oliver Jeffers
Our Big Day
Bob Johnston, illustrated by Michael Emberley
Fox & Son Tailers
Paddy Donnelly
Well Done Mummy Penguin
Chris Haughton
Cloud Babies
Eoin Colfer, illustrated by Chris Judge
Without Warning and Only Sometimes
Kit de Waal
Time and Tide
Charlie Bird, with Ray Burke
The Last Good Funeral of the Year
Ed O'Loughlin
Surrender
Bono
I Don’t Want to Talk About Home
Suad Aldarra
All Down Darkness Wide
Seán Hewitt
The Irish Civil War in Colour
Michael B. Barry and John O’Byrne
The Guardians
Garda Stephen Moore
The Great Lighthouses of Ireland
David Hare
The Book of the Skelligs
John Crowley and John Sheehan
An Irish Folklore Treasury
John Creedon
Abandoned Ireland
Rebecca Brownlie
Rónán Hession
What Love Looks Like
Jarlath Gregory
The New Girl
Sinéad Moriarty
The Legend of Valentine Sorrow
Caroline Busher
Not My Problem
Ciara Smyth
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating
Adiba Jaigirdar
Baby Teeth
Meg Grehan
Unbroken
Aidan O’Mahony
The Nation Holds Its Breath
George Hamilton
Fight or Flight
Keith Earls
Devotion
Mickey Harte
Dark Blue
Shane Carthy
Crossing the Line
Willie Anderson
Roddy Doyle
Worms
Alan Murrin
The Wake
Jan Carson
The Leaving Place
Deirdre Sullivan 
Little Lives
Stuart Neville
Coming in On Time
Bernard MacLaverty
Blackthorns
Your One Wild and Precious Life
Dr Maureen Gaffney
Openhearted
Ann Ingle
Nora
Nuala O'Connor
Nanny, Ma & Me
Jade, Dominique & Kathleen Jordan
As The Smoke Clears
Zoe Holohan
Three Weddings and a Proposal
Sheila O'Flanagan
The Guinness Girls
Emily Hourican
Normal Sheeple
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
Freckles
Cecelia Ahern
Aisling and The City
Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
About Us
Sinéad Moriarty
Siobhan Campbell
Longboat at Portaferry
Noel King
Glissando
Michael Naghten Shanks
Sestina for The Daring Young Man on The Flying Trapeze
Karen J McDonnell
Driftwood
White City
Kevin Power
The Magician
Colm Tóibín
The Echo Chamber
John Boyne
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
Panenka
Rónán Hession
Beautiful World, Where Are you
Sally Rooney
We Don’t Know Ourselves
Fintan O’Toole
The Best Catholics in The World
Derek Scally
Northern Protestants on Shifting Ground
Susan McKay
Four Years in The Cauldron
Brian O'Donovan
Between Two Hells
Diarmaid Ferriter
A State of Emergency
Richard Chambers
Snowflake
Louise Nealon
Holding Her Breath
Eimear Ryan
Diving for Pearls
Jamie O’Connell
Dinner Party: A Tragedy
Sarah Gilmartin
Boys Don’t Cry
Fíona Scarlett
A Crooked Tree
Una Mannion
Ranger 22
Ray Goggins
Mindfull
Dermot Whelan
High Hopes
Steve Garrigan
Décor Galore
Laura De Barra
Awaken Your Power Within
Gerry Hussey
A Cloud Where the Birds Rise
Michael Harding and Jacob Stack
Marian Keyes
Maggie O’Farrell
Liz Nugent
John Boyne
Donal Ryan
Ré na bhFathach
Colm Ó Ceallacháin
Madame Lazare
Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin
Mé Suibhne
Feargal Ó Béarra
Inní
Réaltán Ní Leannáin
An Cheathrú Rua agus na hOileáin sa Naoú hAois Déag
Áine Ní Chonghaile
The Killing Kind
Jane Casey
The Devils Advocate
Steve Cavanagh
The Dark Room
Sam Blake
April In Spain
John Banville
All her fault
Andrea Mara
56 Days
Catherine Ryan Howard
Trisha’s 21-Day Reset
Trisha Lewis
The Daly Dish Rides Again
Gina and Karol Daly
Soup, Broth, Bread
Rachel Allen
Learn to Cook with Neven
Neven Maguire
Darina Allen: How to Cook
Darina Allen
Everyday Cook
Donal Skehan
The Shadows of Rookhaven
Pádraig Kenny
The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street
Sarah Webb
The Summer I Robbed A Bank
David O’Doherty
Mr Spicebag
Freddie Alexander
Lily’s Dream
Judi Curtin
Aldrin Adams and the Cheese Nightmares
Paul Howard
Up on the Mountain
Peter Donnelly
There’s a Ghost in this House
Oliver Jeffers
Puffling and the Egg
Erika McGann & Gerry Daly
Maybe…
Chris Haughton
Evie’s Christmas Wish
Siobhán Parkinson
A Hug For You
David King
Rememberings
Sinéad O’Connor
Openhearted
Ann Ingle
Gas Man
Colin Black
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?
Séamas O'Reilly
Boy 11963
John Cameron
Unsettled
Rosaleen McDonagh
Belonging
Catherine Corless
Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature
Manchán Magan
The Presidents’ Letters
Flor MacCarthy
The Coastal Atlas of Ireland
Robert Devoy, Val Cummins, Barry Brunt, Darius Bartlett & Sarah Kandrot
Tea for One
Alice Taylor
Look! It’s a Woman Writer!
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
Corpsing
Sophie White
A Light That Never Goes Out
Keelin Shanley with Conor Ferguson
Savage Her Reply
Deirdre Sullivan & Illustrated by Karen Vaughan
Break the Mould
Sinéad Burke
The Great Irish Farm Book
Darragh McCullough & Illustrated by Sally Caulwell
Old Ireland in Colour
John Breslin & Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley
Neven Maguire’s Midweek Meals in Minutes
Neven Maguire
Champagne Football
Mark Tighe & Paul Rowan
Never Mind the Boll***s, Here’s the Science
Luke O’Neill
A Ghost in the Throat
Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Diary of a Young Naturalist
Dara McAnulty
After the Silence
Louise O’Neill
Home Stretch
Graham Norton
Strange Flowers
Donal Ryan
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Never Mind the B#LL*CKS Here's the Science

By Professor Luke O'neill

Professor Luke O’Neill, one of the leading voices of authority during the COVID-19 pandemic, grapples with life’s biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them: Do we have control over our lives? Must we vaccinate our children? Covering topics from global pandemics to addiction and euthanasia, Luke’s trademark easy wit and clever pop-culture references deconstruct the science to make complex questions accessible.

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