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Summer 2009 he took up the prestigious Harman Visiting Professorship in Creative Writing at Baruch College, City University of New York, following in the footsteps of Edward Albee, Paul Auster, Anita Desai and Yeats (who features in GHOST LIGHT).REDEMPTION FALLS was nominated for the 2007 Prix Femina Etranger. Shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award, 2008. Nominated for the 2009 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award. Sold to 17 languages. STAR OF THE SEA was voted one of 15 ‘Vintage Future Classics’, 2005. Sunday Times No 1 bestseller in paperback. Nielsen BookScan bestselling adult fiction paperback of the year 2004. Shortlisted for ‘Nibbie’ Best Read Award. Shortlisted for Sunday Independent ‘Irish Novel of the Year’ Award. Winner of Prix Litteraire European Madeleine Zepter Award, France for best European Novel of the Year. Longlisted for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2003. Winner of Acerbi Foundation Award Prize, Italy 2003. One of Le Point’s ‘15 Best Books of the Year 2003’. Winner of Prix Millepages award 2003. Hennessy/Sunday Tribune ‘Hall of Fame’ Award winner. Winner of 2004 Irish Post Award for Literature. One of The Economist’s Books of the Year. Winner of American Library Association Award. Voted in 5 Books to Remember 2003 by New York Public Library service. Film rights optioned by Parallel Films. THE THRILL OF IT ALL LiteraryHis first contemporary novel for 15 years. A group of friends, once a high-flying rock band which broke up in acrimony 20 years ago, reunite to play one last concert. They are forced to face their demons, and their changed lives. Funny, poignant, and suffused with music. PDF available, 400 pp (UK editor Geoff Mulligan).
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? Novella & short stories‘Ireland’s greatest storyteller’ The Sunday Independent His first collection of short stories in more than 20 years. The novella, SCENES FROM A HURRICANE, tells of a son’s drive with his father…only one of them knows it is a final farewell. 326 pp.
GHOST LIGHT Literary Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2011. Shortlisted for the LA Times award. ‘As I read, I found myself going more and more slowly, because I didn’t want to miss a single sentence. I found myself calling friends and reading passages aloud to them over the phone. This is a rare experience indeed. It is a rare and wonderful book.’ Michael Cunningham (THE HOURS) ‘A great ambitious novel about love, loss, lamentation. O'Connor has the magic touch, he brings whole eras alive with a touch of his cycloramic pen. I can't imagine many better – or braver – novels coming out this year.’ Colum McCann The doomed love affair between the controversial playwright J.M. Synge and his lover, the actress Molly Allgood is remembered in heartbreaking detail by Molly, now old, poor and barely ekeing out a living in 1950’s London. 242pp.
SHEILA O’FLANAGAN Carole Blake www.sheilaoflanagan.net Twitter: @sheilaoflanagan 5 million copies+ in print in UK. Ex-bond dealer, financial journalist: Every novel No 1 in Ireland, and top 5 UK bestseller. Books ‘as necessary to women as chocolate, and just as addictive!’ With each new novel she breaks her record of weeks at No 1 in Ireland. Recipient of the prestigious Irish Tatler Literary Woman of the Year Award. Author of DREAMING OF A STRANGER, CAROLINE’S SISTER, ISOBEL’S WEDDING, SUDDENLY SINGLE, FAR FROM OVER, MY FAVOURITE GOODBYE, HE’S GOT TO GO,; TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, ANYONE BUT HIM,; HOW WILL I KNOW?, YOURS, FAITHFULLY, BAD BEHAVIOUR, SOMEONE SPECIAL, THE PERFECT MAN, STAND BY ME, ALL FOR YOU, BETTER TOGETHER plus 3 bestselling volumes of short stories: DESTINATIONS, CONNECTIONS and A SEASON TO REMEMBER and FOLLOW ME in the ‘Quick Reads’ series. Now writing 2 more novels for Headline. (UK editor: Marion Donaldson). ‘Fabulous…thoroughly enjoyable.’ RTE Guide ‘Sparkling and inspiring…a must for the contemporary woman.’ Ireland on Sunday ‘A superb heroine…a rattling good read.’ U Magazine. ‘A certain winner: well written and very readable…a refreshing change from the usual stable of women’s contemporary fiction.’ Publishing News. IF YOU WERE ME Contemporary Stressful presentations are part of a day’s work for Carlotta, but this one was in 2 languages. Missing her plane home wasn’t part of the plan, and missing her future mother-in-law’s birthday party is just the first of a sequence of events that turns her emotional and work life upside down. Trademark O’Flanagan warm characters you easily identify with. PDF available, 460 pp
THINGS WE NEVER SAY Contemporary Abbey barely sees her mother these days - but in San Francisco she has great friends, a steady relationship and a job she enjoys. When Abbey is contacted by Irish lawyer Ryan Gilligan she learns everything she believed about her roots is a lie. She travels to Dublin to find out more and is scarcely off the plane when she's plunged into a new crisis that will change everything for Abbey and for the family in Ireland who had no idea she existed. 504 pp.
CHIOMA OKEREKE Juliet Pickering www.chiomaokereke.com Twitter: @chiomatic Chioma started her writing career as a poet and performed in the US, Europe and at many events in the UK before turning her hand to fiction. In 2013 she was runner-up for the Costa Short Story Award, with her story ‘Trompette de la Mort’. BITTER LEAF Literary Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize for First Book At the heart of this novel is the village of Mannobe and its colourful cast of characters: Babylon, a gifted musician who falls under the spell of the beautiful Jericho who has recently returned from the city; Mabel and M'elle Codon, twin sisters whose lives have taken very different paths; Magdalena, daughter of Mabel, who nurses an unrequited love for Babylon; and Allegory, the wise old man who adheres fiercely to tradition. As lives and relationships change and Mannobe is challenged by encroaching development, the fragile web of dependency holding village life together is gradually revealed. 407 pp.
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