Irish Book Awards Winners Announced

The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2011 were held Thursday night, and there were some great winners! It sounds like it was a fab night, so congratulations to all the winners and commiserations to the nominees as well!

Selection of Winners:
Popular Fiction Book of the Year: All For You by Sheila O'Flanagan

RTÉ Radio 1's The John Murray Show Listeners' Choice Award: How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran

Best Irish Non-Fiction Book Award: Easy Meals by Rachel Allen

Hughes and Hughes Irish Novel of the Year: Mistaken by Neil Jordan

Specsavers Irish Children's Book of the Year Award: The Real Rebecca  by Anna Carey

For a full list of winners, please visit the Irish Publishing News website.

Irish Book Awards Shortlist Announced

The shortlist for the Irish Book Awards have been announced, and I wanted to share with the category that will of interest to me, the Easons Popular Fiction Award!

The shortlisted authors and books are:

• Cecelia Ahern - The Time of My Life
• Emma Hannigan - The Pink Ladies Club
• All For You by Sheila O'Flanagan
• Me and My Sisters by Sinead Moriarty
• Love and Marriage by Patricia Scanlan
• NAMA Mia! by Ross O'Carroll Kelly

Also I want to send my congrats to Casey Hill writing team Melissa Hill and husband Kevin for the shortlisting of their debut novel Taboo in the category 'Ireland AM Irish Crime Fiction Book of the Year', congratulations!

A book I also recently reviewed, The Lingerie Designer by Siobhan McKenna is also up for the 'Sunday Independent Best Newcomer of the Year' award.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors, best of luck!

You can check out the rest of the categories and nominated authors at the Irish Book Awards website here.