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Sep 1, 2026
Shane ColemanHOST
His debut picture book, The President's Glasses, was the number one bestseller.
Shane ColemanHOST
His second book, The President's Cat, won the Children's Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards.
Shane ColemanHOST
His style is influenced by mid-century art, folk art, 1950s, 60s animation design.
Shane ColemanHOST
He's also, and I'm very impressed by this, the illustrator for Kyo's Crisps, which is, and they actually
Holly BreslinGUEST
He had a really big documentary, Birdsong, out, which kind of followed him on a mission to record every bird song in Ireland.
Holly BreslinGUEST
He had a memoir, Nature Boy, which won... uh biography of the year at the Irish Book Awards or I think what kind of seemingly started all of this where I first heard of him was he did an interview with Tommy Tiernan on the Tommy Tiernan show in 2024 and he was a really interesting man so this podcast is very kind of chilled there doesn't seem to be a very strict format with it it's a lot of him chatting and then he'll maybe tell you about this time that he recorded this bird or He had badgers or slugs eating as well, things that you wouldn't think even make a noise.
Holly BreslinGUEST
And then he'll go into a bit of his life story as well.
Holly BreslinGUEST
He was talking about his childhood.
Andy MillerHOST
Amazing.
Andy MillerHOST
Mary's short story collection, The China Factory, was first published by Stinging Fly in 2012 and it was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for an Irish Book Award.
Andy MillerHOST
Her first novel, Academy Street, published by Canongate in 2014, won the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year Award and was named Overall Irish Book of the Year.
Andy MillerHOST
It was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa First Novel Prize, the EU Prize for Literature and Others, and has been translated into several languages.
Andy MillerHOST
Her second novel, The River Capture, was published in 2019 and shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards, the Kerry Group Novel of the Year, and the Dalky Novel Award.
Andy MillerHOST
We originally planned to discuss an Irish novel here in Galway for Backlisted.
Andy MillerHOST
Have you chosen an Irish novel for us to discuss?
Ashley Kalagian BluntHOST
Her five novels have each been number one bestsellers.
Ashley Kalagian BluntHOST
She has won four Irish Book Awards, as well as the James Joyce Medal for Literature.
Ashley Kalagian BluntHOST
She lives in Dublin.
Ashley Kalagian BluntHOST
James, I don't think you and I are eligible for the James Joyce Medal in Literature, but I'd really just like to win it now.
Matt CooperHOST
She started as an acclaimed writer of books for children, but she has now had a very successful conversion into adult novels.
Matt CooperHOST
Uh, the If I Tell, her first adult novel, bestseller, shortlisted for Crime Novel of the Year at the 2022 Irish Book Awards.
Matt CooperHOST
That was the first in the Shaw and Dermody series of crime thrillers, and the fourth, set in the fictional Dublin suburb of Clonchapel, is called All of Them Lied.
Matt CooperHOST
Jill Pardue, thank you very much for taking the time to join us.
Éilís Ní DhuibhneHOST
Um, they were both very well received indeed.
Éilís Ní DhuibhneHOST
Dinner Party was shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award and for an Irish Book Award.
Éilís Ní DhuibhneHOST
And, um, Service was a Washington Post Top Book of the Summer, and it featured in The Irish Times list of the Best Irish Fiction of the 21st Century.
Éilís Ní DhuibhneHOST
Um, Sarah was the Writer in Residence, Arts Council Writer in Residence in DCU last year.
Nick AhadHOST
She went on to win the Costa Short Story Award.
Nick AhadHOST
She's been nominated for several other literary prizes, including the Irish Book Award for her half a dozen follow-up novels.
Nick AhadHOST
Her widely acclaimed bestseller, Things in Jars, was a darkly atmospheric novel set in an otherworldly Victorian era, something she has evoked again in her latest book, Little Spark.
Nick AhadHOST
It tells the tale of an unusual young girl, Bodkin Bell, who is both cursed and blessed with strange powers.