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We have been short listed in the regional finals for small press of the year awards .

Marvellous!

Congratulations to Dubliner, Ronan Hession.

Leonard and Hungry Paul has been chosen by Dublin, UNESCO City of Literature, as their Book for 2021.

Previous authors chosen for this honour include - Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Edna O'Brien.

There will be banners, flags, pennants on lampposts throughout the city and the book will be promoted in all libraries in Ireland.

Ronan will be speaking and chatting on several online library events as well as appearing on RTE Radio shows too.

The Sound MIrror by Heidi James was reviewed in The Guardian.

'An exceptional and intimate voice.'

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/23/the-sound-mirror-by-heidi-...

The Sunday Times has chosen Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession as one the top 50 great Irish novels of The Century.

'It has acquired cult status amongst literary fiction fans.'

Here is the  wonderful review of Should We Fall Behind by Sharon Duggal in The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/02/should-we-fall-behind-by-s...

It will also be in the newspaper on Saturday 5th December.

Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession has been chosen as one of the books of the year in 2020 by contributors to The Times Literary Supplement.

Congratulations to Ronan.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/books-of-the-year-2020/

Review of Should We Fall Behind by award winning author Preti Taneja.

'Duggal writes about the devestation of vulnerable lives with all the hard-eyed clarity of WILLIAM TREVOR, and as much literary heart as ROHINTON MISTRY - SHOULD WE FALL BEHIND deeply inhabits its world but wears its craft so lightly - it is beautifully observed, suffused with inner-city melancholy and shot through with hope that can only come from random encounters, the small acts of generosity that help strangers to find affinity with each other even in the worst of times.'

You can listen to Heidi James read from her new novel The Sound Mirror on Damian Barr's Literary Salon.

https://www.theliterarysalon.co.uk/podcast