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✨ Gliff by Ali Smith
Two children come home to find a line of wet red paint around their house. So begins Ali Smith’s urgent novel about two young people and a horse called Gliff, on the run as history takes a turn for the worse.
🧵 4/4
Two children come home to find a line of wet red paint around their house. So begins Ali Smith’s urgent novel about two young people and a horse called Gliff, on the run as history takes a turn for the worse.
🧵 4/4
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
✨ Gliff by Ali Smith
Two children come home to find a line of wet red paint around their house. So begins Ali Smith’s urgent novel about two young people and a horse called Gliff, on the run as history takes a turn for the worse.
🧵 4/4
Two children come home to find a line of wet red paint around their house. So begins Ali Smith’s urgent novel about two young people and a horse called Gliff, on the run as history takes a turn for the worse.
🧵 4/4
✨ The Wager and the Bear by John Ironmonger
When Tom humiliates politician Monty, it sparks a feud and a deadly wager. Decades later, they are stranded on an iceberg with a starving polar bear in a gripping tale of anger, tragedy, and enduring love amid global crisis.
🧵 3/4
When Tom humiliates politician Monty, it sparks a feud and a deadly wager. Decades later, they are stranded on an iceberg with a starving polar bear in a gripping tale of anger, tragedy, and enduring love amid global crisis.
🧵 3/4
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
✨ The Wager and the Bear by John Ironmonger
When Tom humiliates politician Monty, it sparks a feud and a deadly wager. Decades later, they are stranded on an iceberg with a starving polar bear in a gripping tale of anger, tragedy, and enduring love amid global crisis.
🧵 3/4
When Tom humiliates politician Monty, it sparks a feud and a deadly wager. Decades later, they are stranded on an iceberg with a starving polar bear in a gripping tale of anger, tragedy, and enduring love amid global crisis.
🧵 3/4
✨ The Names by Florence Knapp
After a great storm, Cora registers her son’s birth. Seven years later, he is Bear, Julian, or Gordon – each name shaping a different life. A moving story about the power of a single decision and three versions of a life.
🧵 2/4
After a great storm, Cora registers her son’s birth. Seven years later, he is Bear, Julian, or Gordon – each name shaping a different life. A moving story about the power of a single decision and three versions of a life.
🧵 2/4
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
✨ The Names by Florence Knapp
After a great storm, Cora registers her son’s birth. Seven years later, he is Bear, Julian, or Gordon – each name shaping a different life. A moving story about the power of a single decision and three versions of a life.
🧵 2/4
After a great storm, Cora registers her son’s birth. Seven years later, he is Bear, Julian, or Gordon – each name shaping a different life. A moving story about the power of a single decision and three versions of a life.
🧵 2/4
Today we're taking a look at four novels written by UK authors among this year's nominated titles:
✨ The Echoes by Evie Wyld
As a reluctant ghost, Max watches his girlfriend Hannah and realises how much of her life he never knew.
🧵 1/4
✨ The Echoes by Evie Wyld
As a reluctant ghost, Max watches his girlfriend Hannah and realises how much of her life he never knew.
🧵 1/4
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Today we're taking a look at four novels written by UK authors among this year's nominated titles:
✨ The Echoes by Evie Wyld
As a reluctant ghost, Max watches his girlfriend Hannah and realises how much of her life he never knew.
🧵 1/4
✨ The Echoes by Evie Wyld
As a reluctant ghost, Max watches his girlfriend Hannah and realises how much of her life he never knew.
🧵 1/4
✨ The Dissenters by Youssef Rakha
A son, an attic, a dead mother’s secrets. A hallucinatory novel weaving one woman’s life into Egypt’s modern history, faith and rebellion.
🧵 3/3
A son, an attic, a dead mother’s secrets. A hallucinatory novel weaving one woman’s life into Egypt’s modern history, faith and rebellion.
🧵 3/3
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
✨ The Dissenters by Youssef Rakha
A son, an attic, a dead mother’s secrets. A hallucinatory novel weaving one woman’s life into Egypt’s modern history, faith and rebellion.
🧵 3/3
A son, an attic, a dead mother’s secrets. A hallucinatory novel weaving one woman’s life into Egypt’s modern history, faith and rebellion.
🧵 3/3
✨ Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Four women, four lives, one searching novel about love, loss and ambition, from a travel writer to a housekeeper facing the unimaginable.
🧵 2/3
Four women, four lives, one searching novel about love, loss and ambition, from a travel writer to a housekeeper facing the unimaginable.
🧵 2/3
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
✨ Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Four women, four lives, one searching novel about love, loss and ambition, from a travel writer to a housekeeper facing the unimaginable.
🧵 2/3
Four women, four lives, one searching novel about love, loss and ambition, from a travel writer to a housekeeper facing the unimaginable.
🧵 2/3
African authors among this year's nominated titles:
✨ The Creation of Half-Broken People by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
A century of colonial rule refracted through race, mental illness and love. A haunting novel about lives warped by empire and the true cost of conquest.
🧵 1/3
✨ The Creation of Half-Broken People by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
A century of colonial rule refracted through race, mental illness and love. A haunting novel about lives warped by empire and the true cost of conquest.
🧵 1/3
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
African authors among this year's nominated titles:
✨ The Creation of Half-Broken People by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
A century of colonial rule refracted through race, mental illness and love. A haunting novel about lives warped by empire and the true cost of conquest.
🧵 1/3
✨ The Creation of Half-Broken People by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
A century of colonial rule refracted through race, mental illness and love. A haunting novel about lives warped by empire and the true cost of conquest.
🧵 1/3
✨ Back in the Day by Oliver Lovrenski
Translated from Norwegian by Nichola Smalley
Teenage friends race through drugs, violence, and fast choices with no brakes. One of them dreams of escape, but the streets have other plans. A raw, urgent portrait of youth on the edge.
🧵 4/4
Translated from Norwegian by Nichola Smalley
Teenage friends race through drugs, violence, and fast choices with no brakes. One of them dreams of escape, but the streets have other plans. A raw, urgent portrait of youth on the edge.
🧵 4/4
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
✨ Back in the Day by Oliver Lovrenski
Translated from Norwegian by Nichola Smalley
Teenage friends race through drugs, violence, and fast choices with no brakes. One of them dreams of escape, but the streets have other plans. A raw, urgent portrait of youth on the edge.
🧵 4/4
Translated from Norwegian by Nichola Smalley
Teenage friends race through drugs, violence, and fast choices with no brakes. One of them dreams of escape, but the streets have other plans. A raw, urgent portrait of youth on the edge.
🧵 4/4
✨ The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir
Translated from Icelandic by Mary Robinette Kowal
Plagued by exhaustion and unexplained injuries, Iðunn suspects something is happening while she sleeps. A chilling novel about being disbelieved, bodily fear and losing control.
🧵 3/4
Translated from Icelandic by Mary Robinette Kowal
Plagued by exhaustion and unexplained injuries, Iðunn suspects something is happening while she sleeps. A chilling novel about being disbelieved, bodily fear and losing control.
🧵 3/4
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
✨ The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir
Translated from Icelandic by Mary Robinette Kowal
Plagued by exhaustion and unexplained injuries, Iðunn suspects something is happening while she sleeps. A chilling novel about being disbelieved, bodily fear and losing control.
🧵 3/4
Translated from Icelandic by Mary Robinette Kowal
Plagued by exhaustion and unexplained injuries, Iðunn suspects something is happening while she sleeps. A chilling novel about being disbelieved, bodily fear and losing control.
🧵 3/4
✨ The Clues in the Fjord by Satu Rämö
Translated from Finnish by Kristian London
Detective Hildur and her partner investigate a murder half-buried by an avalanche. As they pursue a killer through secrets and silence, both are forced to confront their own pasts.
🧵 2/4
Translated from Finnish by Kristian London
Detective Hildur and her partner investigate a murder half-buried by an avalanche. As they pursue a killer through secrets and silence, both are forced to confront their own pasts.
🧵 2/4
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
✨ The Clues in the Fjord by Satu Rämö
Translated from Finnish by Kristian London
Detective Hildur and her partner investigate a murder half-buried by an avalanche. As they pursue a killer through secrets and silence, both are forced to confront their own pasts.
🧵 2/4
Translated from Finnish by Kristian London
Detective Hildur and her partner investigate a murder half-buried by an avalanche. As they pursue a killer through secrets and silence, both are forced to confront their own pasts.
🧵 2/4
2026 nominated novels, translated from Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic:
✨ Brightly Shining by Ingvild Rishøi
Translated from Norwegian by Caroline Waight
Told with humour and tenderness, this is a Christmas tale of sisterhood, hardship and the power of dreams.
🧵 1/4
✨ Brightly Shining by Ingvild Rishøi
Translated from Norwegian by Caroline Waight
Told with humour and tenderness, this is a Christmas tale of sisterhood, hardship and the power of dreams.
🧵 1/4
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
2026 nominated novels, translated from Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic:
✨ Brightly Shining by Ingvild Rishøi
Translated from Norwegian by Caroline Waight
Told with humour and tenderness, this is a Christmas tale of sisterhood, hardship and the power of dreams.
🧵 1/4
✨ Brightly Shining by Ingvild Rishøi
Translated from Norwegian by Caroline Waight
Told with humour and tenderness, this is a Christmas tale of sisterhood, hardship and the power of dreams.
🧵 1/4
✨ Live Fast by Brigitte Giraud
(translated by Cory Stockwell)
In the aftermath of her partner’s death, a woman reconstructs the decisions and accidents that led to disaster. Moving through memory and speculation, the novel asks how a life can turn on small moments.
🧵 4/4
(translated by Cory Stockwell)
In the aftermath of her partner’s death, a woman reconstructs the decisions and accidents that led to disaster. Moving through memory and speculation, the novel asks how a life can turn on small moments.
🧵 4/4
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
✨ Live Fast by Brigitte Giraud
(translated by Cory Stockwell)
In the aftermath of her partner’s death, a woman reconstructs the decisions and accidents that led to disaster. Moving through memory and speculation, the novel asks how a life can turn on small moments.
🧵 4/4
(translated by Cory Stockwell)
In the aftermath of her partner’s death, a woman reconstructs the decisions and accidents that led to disaster. Moving through memory and speculation, the novel asks how a life can turn on small moments.
🧵 4/4
✨ Perspective(s) by Laurent Binet
(translated by Sam Taylor)
A scandalous hidden painting and a city on edge draw the great art historian Giorgio Vasari into an investigation where art, politics, and violence collide.
🧵 3/4
(translated by Sam Taylor)
A scandalous hidden painting and a city on edge draw the great art historian Giorgio Vasari into an investigation where art, politics, and violence collide.
🧵 3/4
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
✨ Perspective(s) by Laurent Binet
(translated by Sam Taylor)
A scandalous hidden painting and a city on edge draw the great art historian Giorgio Vasari into an investigation where art, politics, and violence collide.
🧵 3/4
(translated by Sam Taylor)
A scandalous hidden painting and a city on edge draw the great art historian Giorgio Vasari into an investigation where art, politics, and violence collide.
🧵 3/4
✨ Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes
(translated by Frank Wynne)
An explosive, modern-day Dangerous Liaisons set in Paris, where two unlikely correspondents clash and connect across divides of gender, power, and belief.
🧵 2/4
(translated by Frank Wynne)
An explosive, modern-day Dangerous Liaisons set in Paris, where two unlikely correspondents clash and connect across divides of gender, power, and belief.
🧵 2/4
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
✨ Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes
(translated by Frank Wynne)
An explosive, modern-day Dangerous Liaisons set in Paris, where two unlikely correspondents clash and connect across divides of gender, power, and belief.
🧵 2/4
(translated by Frank Wynne)
An explosive, modern-day Dangerous Liaisons set in Paris, where two unlikely correspondents clash and connect across divides of gender, power, and belief.
🧵 2/4
Spotlight on this year's nominated novels in translation from French:
✨ What I Know About You by Éric Chacour
(translated by Pablo Strauss)
A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo.
🧵 1/4
✨ What I Know About You by Éric Chacour
(translated by Pablo Strauss)
A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo.
🧵 1/4
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Spotlight on this year's nominated novels in translation from French:
✨ What I Know About You by Éric Chacour
(translated by Pablo Strauss)
A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo.
🧵 1/4
✨ What I Know About You by Éric Chacour
(translated by Pablo Strauss)
A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo.
🧵 1/4
✨ Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
Living in London with her girlfriend, Jay is forced back to Ireland when her dead brother is proposed for sainthood. A probing look at faith, family stories, and who gets to define a life.
🧵 5/5
Living in London with her girlfriend, Jay is forced back to Ireland when her dead brother is proposed for sainthood. A probing look at faith, family stories, and who gets to define a life.
🧵 5/5
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
✨ Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
Living in London with her girlfriend, Jay is forced back to Ireland when her dead brother is proposed for sainthood. A probing look at faith, family stories, and who gets to define a life.
🧵 5/5
Living in London with her girlfriend, Jay is forced back to Ireland when her dead brother is proposed for sainthood. A probing look at faith, family stories, and who gets to define a life.
🧵 5/5
✨ Camarade by Theo Dorgan
From Paris, an Irish exile revisits the violent moment that shaped him. The novel moves between memory and politics, a taut exploration of guilt, loyalty, and the histories we carry.
🧵 4/5
From Paris, an Irish exile revisits the violent moment that shaped him. The novel moves between memory and politics, a taut exploration of guilt, loyalty, and the histories we carry.
🧵 4/5
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
✨ Camarade by Theo Dorgan
From Paris, an Irish exile revisits the violent moment that shaped him. The novel moves between memory and politics, a taut exploration of guilt, loyalty, and the histories we carry.
🧵 4/5
From Paris, an Irish exile revisits the violent moment that shaped him. The novel moves between memory and politics, a taut exploration of guilt, loyalty, and the histories we carry.
🧵 4/5
✨ The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr
A found baby on the Donegal coast unsettles a family and the town around them. Spanning twenty years, it reveals small jealousies, fragile bonds, and the slow weight of growing up in a close community.
🧵 3/5
A found baby on the Donegal coast unsettles a family and the town around them. Spanning twenty years, it reveals small jealousies, fragile bonds, and the slow weight of growing up in a close community.
🧵 3/5
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
✨ The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr
A found baby on the Donegal coast unsettles a family and the town around them. Spanning twenty years, it reveals small jealousies, fragile bonds, and the slow weight of growing up in a close community.
🧵 3/5
A found baby on the Donegal coast unsettles a family and the town around them. Spanning twenty years, it reveals small jealousies, fragile bonds, and the slow weight of growing up in a close community.
🧵 3/5
✨ Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey
Irish teenagers in late-70s London find brief solace together before life separates them. Decades on, their paths echo and cross, capturing the quiet ache of exile, resilience, and time.
🧵 2/5
Irish teenagers in late-70s London find brief solace together before life separates them. Decades on, their paths echo and cross, capturing the quiet ache of exile, resilience, and time.
🧵 2/5
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
✨ Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey
Irish teenagers in late-70s London find brief solace together before life separates them. Decades on, their paths echo and cross, capturing the quiet ache of exile, resilience, and time.
🧵 2/5
Irish teenagers in late-70s London find brief solace together before life separates them. Decades on, their paths echo and cross, capturing the quiet ache of exile, resilience, and time.
🧵 2/5
Spotlight on the five Irish authors nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award:
✨ Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Two brothers in Dublin grieve in opposite ways: Peter, medicated and unravelling beneath composure, and Ivan, withdrawn and drawn into an intense new relationship.
🧵 1/5
✨ Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Two brothers in Dublin grieve in opposite ways: Peter, medicated and unravelling beneath composure, and Ivan, withdrawn and drawn into an intense new relationship.
🧵 1/5
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Spotlight on the five Irish authors nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award:
✨ Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Two brothers in Dublin grieve in opposite ways: Peter, medicated and unravelling beneath composure, and Ivan, withdrawn and drawn into an intense new relationship.
🧵 1/5
✨ Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Two brothers in Dublin grieve in opposite ways: Peter, medicated and unravelling beneath composure, and Ivan, withdrawn and drawn into an intense new relationship.
🧵 1/5
Looking for your next great read? The 2026 Dublin Literary Award nominations offer plenty to choose from! 📖✨
With 69 novels selected by libraries in 36 countries, this year’s list spans continents, languages and genres.
Browse the list here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/...
With 69 novels selected by libraries in 36 countries, this year’s list spans continents, languages and genres.
Browse the list here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/...
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Looking for your next great read? The 2026 Dublin Literary Award nominations offer plenty to choose from! 📖✨
With 69 novels selected by libraries in 36 countries, this year’s list spans continents, languages and genres.
Browse the list here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/...
With 69 novels selected by libraries in 36 countries, this year’s list spans continents, languages and genres.
Browse the list here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/...
Introducing our non-voting chair, Chris Morash. ✨
Chris Morash is the Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin, is the author of Dublin: A Writer’s City (2023), and was the 2022 Macgeorge Fellow and curator of the Abbey Theatre’s Unseen Plays series.
Chris Morash is the Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin, is the author of Dublin: A Writer’s City (2023), and was the 2022 Macgeorge Fellow and curator of the Abbey Theatre’s Unseen Plays series.
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Introducing our non-voting chair, Chris Morash. ✨
Chris Morash is the Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin, is the author of Dublin: A Writer’s City (2023), and was the 2022 Macgeorge Fellow and curator of the Abbey Theatre’s Unseen Plays series.
Chris Morash is the Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin, is the author of Dublin: A Writer’s City (2023), and was the 2022 Macgeorge Fellow and curator of the Abbey Theatre’s Unseen Plays series.
Introducing our next judge, Clara Ministral ✨
A translator with over 15 years’ experience, she has brought authors such as Jan Carson, Rebecca Solnit and Louise Kennedy to Spanish readers. She now runs Wheeker Books and divides her time between Madrid and Belfast.
#DLA26
A translator with over 15 years’ experience, she has brought authors such as Jan Carson, Rebecca Solnit and Louise Kennedy to Spanish readers. She now runs Wheeker Books and divides her time between Madrid and Belfast.
#DLA26
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Introducing our next judge, Clara Ministral ✨
A translator with over 15 years’ experience, she has brought authors such as Jan Carson, Rebecca Solnit and Louise Kennedy to Spanish readers. She now runs Wheeker Books and divides her time between Madrid and Belfast.
#DLA26
A translator with over 15 years’ experience, she has brought authors such as Jan Carson, Rebecca Solnit and Louise Kennedy to Spanish readers. She now runs Wheeker Books and divides her time between Madrid and Belfast.
#DLA26
We continue our introduction of the 2026 judging panel with Dan Mulhall, former Irish Ambassador and author of Ulysses: A Reader’s Odyssey and Pilgrim Soul. He has held roles at NYU, Cambridge and Harvard, and is Honorary President of the Yeats Society.
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
We continue our introduction of the 2026 judging panel with Dan Mulhall, former Irish Ambassador and author of Ulysses: A Reader’s Odyssey and Pilgrim Soul. He has held roles at NYU, Cambridge and Harvard, and is Honorary President of the Yeats Society.
Introducing 2026 Dublin Literary Award judge Dike Chukwumerije. ✨
A performance poet, theatre creator, author and cultural leader, he’s known for Urichindere, his long-running Abuja poetry shows, major spoken word productions and his work with the Simply Poetry Foundation.
A performance poet, theatre creator, author and cultural leader, he’s known for Urichindere, his long-running Abuja poetry shows, major spoken word productions and his work with the Simply Poetry Foundation.
November 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Introducing 2026 Dublin Literary Award judge Dike Chukwumerije. ✨
A performance poet, theatre creator, author and cultural leader, he’s known for Urichindere, his long-running Abuja poetry shows, major spoken word productions and his work with the Simply Poetry Foundation.
A performance poet, theatre creator, author and cultural leader, he’s known for Urichindere, his long-running Abuja poetry shows, major spoken word productions and his work with the Simply Poetry Foundation.