Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Another good week for Joseph O’Connor, Ghost Light seems to be striking a cord with readers. Stephanie Meyer’s success is more muted but still a very credible performance. Most impressive to me is the arrival on the top ten of The Twin, Gebrand Bakkar’s IMPAC winning novel. Perhaps...
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Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Stephanie Meyer’s sales last week were nicely impressive and were enough to overtake Joseph O’Connor and push him into second place.  A good showing for Irish authors and still that strange chunk of the top ten made up of a certain Swedish author! 1: The Short Second Life...
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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Smashing sales by Joseph O’Connor this week, really something you’d expect much closer to the Christmas peak, but then again he has had an incredible profile and the book has had good initial reviews. It helps that the summer reading period is just beginning. It’s doubly impressive to...
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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Joseph O’Connor’s arrival in the list is not entirely unexpected, his profile is high in Ireland given his weekly radio column on RTE’s Drivetime. However, the quiet but solid performance of The Help continues apace and Claudia Carroll’s book stays in the top ten for a second week....
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