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Dublin Literary Award 2025 shortlist

The international judging panel selected six books from a longlist of 71 titles.
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9 May 2025

Staff Pick: Orbital by Samantha Harvey

A tongue-in-cheek and slightly ironic book review
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7 May 2025

Staff Pick: The Racket by Conor Niland

A fascinating memoir of Irish tennis star Conor Niland’s professional tennis career that began with him beating Roger Federer
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28 April 2025

Staff Pick: A Thread of Violence by Mark O’Connell

O’Connell writes incisively about Macarthur, the murders and indeed the political fallout.
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4 March 2025

Staff Pick: The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

For those willing to venture to gothic spaces with unsettling explicit descriptions, this bold novel won’t disappoint
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17 February 2025

Staff Pick: In Her Jaws by Rosamund Taylor

Review of the poet's debut collection
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14 February 2025

Love is in the air

Get into the mood this Valentines Day with the most romantic picks from our library catalogue.
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14 February 2025

Staff Pick: Written on the Body

Copies of Written on the Body are available in our libraries, and also as an eBook on Borrowbox.
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4 February 2025

Staff Pick: What you are looking for is in the library

Review of 'What you are looking for is in the library' by Michiko Aoyama and translated by Alison Watts
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20 January 2025

Top Ten Adult nonfiction 2024

Happy Christmas and happy reading to all of you from all of us here in Dublin City Libraries.
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5 December 2024