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Vote for your favourite books of the year and win €100 of National Book Tokens. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
Dear friends, As some of you may have seen last week, New Island has received five nominations at this year’s Irish Book Awards — an all-time record for us! As you can imagine, we’re absolutely delighted. But the winners are chosen by readers, and that’s where you come in. Here are the New Island titles nominated this year:
History Book of the Year: The Dublin Pub by Donal Fallon Best Irish-Published Book of the Year: Sunday Miscellany – A Selection 2023–2025, edited by Sarah Binchy Newcomer of the Year: Frogs for Watchdogs by Seán Farrell Biography of the Year: Still – A Memoir by Julia Kelly Biography of the Year: The Bass Player – Surviving the Miami Showband Massacre by Stephen Travers with Yvonne Watterson and Alexandra Orton Voting is simple — just click the link below and follow the instructions. We’d be so grateful for your support for any (or all!) of our books. And if you could spread the word and encourage friends to vote too, we’d appreciate it even more. Thanks as always for your wonderful support,
The New Island Team |
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The follow up to 2022’s best-selling Three Castles Burning is here. Historian and Podcaster Donal Fallon returns with this exciting social and cultural history of that most venerable institution, the Dublin pub.
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A beloved Irish institution, RTÉ Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany has been woven into the lives of listeners for over half a century. Following on from the bestselling 2023 anthology, this collection brings together some of the best broadcasts of the past three years, arranged in calendar months. Featuring a spectrum of writing talent, from household names to striking new voices, it offers solace, joy and entertainment for all seasons.
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A wild child with a ferocious imagination will stop at nothing to protect his family. Dark, funny, tender and raw, Frogs for Watchdogs thrums with the intensity of childhood. Above all, it is an ode to the blended family: the bewildering joy, wary safety and profound new bonds of love.
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Still is Julia Kelly’s luminous portrait of her mother, Delphine — a politician’s wife who, after her husband’s death, finally begins to live on her own terms. When an accident ends her life on a far-flung adventure, Julia finds solace in the post-mortem report, transforming loss into love. A tender, fearless meditation on motherhood, freedom, and the art of letting go.
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Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with the Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when a Loyalist gang ambushed the band, murdering three of his friends in an attack that would become one of the darkest moments of The Troubles. In the quiet aftermath, in a nearby field, Stephen awoke to his second life — as a survivor.
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