Author of Millennium trilogy beats James Patterson in race to join online retailer's new 'Kindle Million Club'
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Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Dan Brown’s paperback release and a renewed surge of summer reading seems to have drive the figures for the Top Ten this week. Kathryn Stockett is at number one by a short, short measure, but it is nice to see her book do so well still, given the...
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Tags: Broken, Column McCann, Dan Brown, Ghost Light, Irish Authors, Irish pubishing, Jodi Picoult, Karin Slaughter, Kathryn Stockett, Let The Great World Spin, Maeve Binchy, Picture Perfect, Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Help, The Lost Symbol, The Return Journey
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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Irish authors Emma Donoghue and Paul Murray have been included in the 2010 Man Booker longlist where they join eleven other authors on this year’s 13 strong list. Donoghue’s Room, is published by Picador and Murrary’s Skippy Dies is published by Hamish Hamilton. The shortlist will be announced...
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Reading time: < 1 minute Irish author Ruth Dudley-Edwards has won the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction for Aftermath: the Omagh Bombing & the Families’ Pursuit of Justice (Harvill Secker). The judges praised “The historian and crime-novelist‘s detailed account of the successful struggle, with the assistance of lawyers, to achieve recognition of those responsible.”...
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