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The best books of 2020 to support indie publishers this Christmas Guardian staff Earthlingsby Sayaka Murata (Granta) The follow-up to Convenience Store Woman, this is the story of Natsuki, who as a 10-year-old hopes a spaceship will take her to the planet Popinpobopia and save her from her miserable childhood. by Adam Kucharski (Wellcome Collection) A serendipitously timed look at why things spread, from viruses to political movements to ideas, by a professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. by Yan Ge, translated by Jeremy Tiang (Tilted Axis) In a fictiona...

Work by Cork-based author and poet named Book of the Year A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa named as the  An Post Irish Book of the Year 2020. A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa has been announced as the An Post Irish Book of the Year 2020. A Ghost in the Throat marks Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s prose debut, and has received acclaim for its use of language and original approach, weaving together two complementary stories: the narrator’s own relationship with pregnancy and motherhood, and the life of eighteenth-century poet Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill.

It means the relatively small publisher, Tramp Press, has won the Irish Book of the Year three times in the past five years.

Sinéad Crowley's books of the year Updated / Friday, 11 Dec 2020 11:15 Author and RTÉ News Arts and Media Correspondent Sinéad Crowley rounds up her books of 2020 Well that was quite the year. I know many people vowed to read more books during the dark days of 2020, and I also know many of them ended up playing with their phones instead and that’s perfectly fine, because just getting through 2020 was an achievement in itself, without any need to feel bad about unrealised goals. But for those of us who do enjoy reading, books were a lifesaver this year, transporting us to other places a...

An Post Irish Book of the Year 2020 revealed ‘I’m overjoyed,’ says poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa, who wins for her acclaimed prose debut Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 23:10 Updated: Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 23:15 An Post Irish Book of the Year 2020: ‘I accept this award with deep gratitude to each and every one of you. Míle buíochas libh go léir,’ says Doireann Ní Ghríofa, author of A Ghost in the Throat. Photograph: Clare Keogh   A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s strikingly original combination of essay and autofiction, has been named An Post Irish Book of the Year 2020.