Sally Rooney, Bernard MacLaverty and Jon McGregor are among the 10 writers shortlisted for the €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the Irish author's second novel, two teens explore sex, secrets and what intimacy is worth. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2019-04-04 09:45:07 UTC ]
Managing director says book chain ‘simply not profitable enough’, as Sally Rooney, Val McDermid and other authors write to protestMore than 1,300 writers including Kerry Hudson, David Nicholls, Sally Rooney, Michael Rosen and Val McDermid have backed a campaign for Waterstones booksellers to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
All eight shortlists for the British Book Awards Books of the Year have been announced, with a strong focus on international writers including Michelle Obama, Michael Wolff, Sally Rooney and Leila Slimani. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sally Rooney and Anna Burns have made the longlist for this year's Rathbones Folio Prize with 20 writers competing for the £30,000 prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Campaigns for titles by Sally Rooney, The Secret Barrister and Michelle Obama were among the winners at the Publisher’s Publicity Circle Annual Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sally Rooney’s Normal People is the critics’ choice for book of the year, with eight publications including it in their end-of-year reviews. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sally Rooney's "astounding" love story Normal People (Faber & Faber) has been named Waterstones' Book of the Year 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Women writers have excelled at the An Post Irish Book Awards, taking home the majority of awards for the first time, with authors such as Sally Rooney, Liz Nugent and Emilie Pine among the winning authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
HQ has acquired the debut novel Love & Other Things to Live For, described as being perfect for fans of Sally Rooney and Dolly Alderton, by film-maker Louise Leverett. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sally Rooney’s upcoming novel Normal People is set to be adapted for television by BBC Three. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eimear McBride, Kit de Waal and Sally Rooney are among the writers from "Ireland's current golden age" who are to feature in an anthology for Faber. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
We spoke to the "Salinger of the Snapchat generation" Sally Rooney, following her shortlisting for the 2018 Dylan Thomas Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sally Rooney, the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, has been longlisted for this year's £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ali Smith’s seasonal novel Winter (Hamish Hamilton), Sally Rooney’s "perfectly observed" début Conversations with Friends (Faber) and the eagerly anticipated first instalment of Philip Pullman’s Book of Dust trilogy, La Belle Sauvage (Penguin/David Fickling Books), were among the critics’... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sally Rooney has become the first Irish winner of the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award for her "fearless, sensual" debut novel Conversations with Friends (Faber). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A precocious young Irish writer whose début was at the heart of a seven-way auction has produced a novel that belies its creator’s years, reckons Alice O’Keeffe. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber has acquired Conversations with Friends, a "startling" and "intimate" debut novel from Sally Rooney, after a seven-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]