Howes in the UK and Dreamscape in the US. The excellent audio edition, read by Barry McGovern and Anna Chancellor, was released by W.F. Richard and Judy picked SHADOWPLAY as one of their Christmas Book Club selections, with Richard Madeley recently describing it as ‘the best novel that I’ve read in the last twenty years… Probably the best of all the Book Club choices we’ve made since 2004. SHADOWPLAY won Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards. Published in 2019 to rapturous reviews, SHADOWPLAY was a Sunday Times novel of the year and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year prize, the Dalkey Novel of the Year award, and the Costa Novel Prize.

The shortlist will be announced on March 25th and the winner revealed by the Lord Mayor of Dublin at the first day of the International Literature Festival Dublin on May 20th. SHADOWPLAY has been longlisted alongside authors such as Elif Shafak, Bernardine Evaristo, Colum McCann, Heather Morris and Brit Bennett. Now in its 26th year, the annual award, which is sponsored by Dublin City Council, celebrates works of fiction published in English between January 2019 and June 2020.Ĥ9 novels were nominated from libraries around the world.

We’re thrilled to share news of even more award recognition for Joseph O’Connor as his novel SHADOWPLAY is longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.

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