PICS FROM BOOK AWARDS

I keep meaning to do this and I keep getting distracted by writing, book club chats, deadlines, editing, reading, (The Gingerman!!) etc. etc. So, a few pics from the Irish Book Awards night. It was a good one!

Hubby and self

Johnny Depp (via videolink) congratulating JP Donleavy on his lifetime acheivement win

Husb et moi, by Ger Holland

Pre-ceremony - nerves!

Bressie, who was the talk of the ladies on the night

Being interviewed by Evelyn O'Rourke

With the beauteous Belinda McKeon

Another TV interview (dunno who she was...)

Waiting for dinner...

With Zoe Comyns and Sinéad Gleeson

And you can watch the hour-long special on RTÉ (I waffle briefly to Evelyn O'Rourke at the beginning) here.

MISS EMILY ON IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST

I am thrilled beyond the beyonds that Miss Emily is on the shortlist for the Easons Book Club Irish Novel of the Year along with books by Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, Paul Murray, Belinda McKeon and Kevin Barry, in the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. And you can vote for your favourites!

The Long Gaze Back womens' story anthology is also shortlisted, in the Best Published Book of the Year category, which is an extra thrill.

Ger Holland took this pic of Declan Meade and me. Love it.

There was a lovely ceremony in the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin yesterday to announce all the shortlists. Ger Holland took lots of great pics which you can look at on the writing.ie Facebook page here. The Big Night is the 25th, when the winners will be announced. The public part of the Book Awards vote is now open here.

And in today's Irish Times, the sublime Sinéad Gleeson interviews me about Miss Emily. It's here.