Joseph O'Connor's STAR OF THE SEA and Sheila O'Flanagan's YOURS, FAITHFULLY have both been nominated for Irish Book of the Decade, part of the Irish Book Awards.

STAR OF THE SEA, Joseph O'Connor's winner of numerous international awards, was voted as one of 15 'Vintage Future Classics' in 2005, was a Sunday Times No 1 bestseller in paperback and Nielsen Booktrack best-selling adult fiction paperback of the year in 2004, and became the first of the 'Richard & Judy' book club choices to become a superseller. It was shortlisted for the Sunday Independent 'Irish Novel of the Year' Award and won the Prix Litteraire European Madeleine Zepter Award, France for best European Novel of the Year.

YOURS, FAITHFULLY was published by Headline in 2006. Sheila O'Flanagan's last 3 novels have sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies in their British editions and with each new novel she breaks her record of weeks at No 1. She was the recipient of the prestigious Irish Tatler Literary Woman of the Year award in 2003 and more than 3 million copies of her novels are in print.

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Praise for STAR OF THE SEA:
'This is Joseph O'Connor's best book. It is shocking, hilarious, beautifully written, and very, very clever.' -- Roddy Doyle

'STAR OF THE SEA is a quite brilliant journey - a voyage where history is turned into literature, and the archives are shaped by invention.  It is indeed O'Connor's most inventive novel: brave, comic, ambitious and still, at its core, uniquely contemporary.' -- Colum McCann

'Carefully plotted, highly readable and very moving…I couldn't put it down…I couldn't get it out of my mind.' -- Bonnie Greer, The Guardian

Praise for YOURS, FAITHFULLY:
'O'Flanagan carries it off, weaving her magic and striking a delicate balance between pathos and comedy … YOURS FAITHFULLY is a big, comfortable, absorbing book, perfect to curl up with as the evenings draw in (and) bound to delight fans.' -- Ann Dunne, Irish independent

'Great characters make for a brilliant read, and you never expect what happens next.'  -- Lucille Redmond, Evening Herald (Dublin)