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• Longlist | Dublin Literary Award

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  "Discover the 2025 Longlist, featuring 71 books nominated by 83 libraries from 34 countries around the world."

• The Adversary

  a Novel

  Crummey, Michael, 1965-

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  WINNER. "In an isolated outport on Newfoundland’s northern coastline, a ruthless act of sabotage is the opening salvo in a battle between the man and woman who own Mockbeggar’s largest mercantile firms, each fighting for the scarce resources of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• James

  a Novel

  Everett, Percival, 1956-

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  SHORTLIST. "When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• North Woods

  Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe)

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  SHORTLIST. "FOUR CENTURIES. A SINGLE HOUSE DEEP IN THEWOODS OF NEW ENGLAND. A young Puritan couple on the run. An English soldier with a fantastic vision. Inseparable twin sisters. A lovelorn painter and a lusty beetle. A desperate mother and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not a River

  Almada, Selva, 1973-

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  SHORTLIST. "Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes, they drink and cook and talk and dance, and try to overcome the ghosts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Prophet Song

  Lynch, Paul, 1977-

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  SHORTLIST. "WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023. The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Light

  Blees, Gerda, 1985-

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  SHORTLIST. "“A riveting experimental novel about a commune where the members’ belief that they can live on light and love alone proves fatal for one of them.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review. Winner of the 2021 European Union Literature Prize. In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Short Walk Through a Wide World

  a Novel

  Westerbeke, Douglas

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  "A dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a mysterious curse that will destroy her if she stops moving. Fiercely independent and hopeful, yet full of longing, Aubry…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• At the Grand Glacier Hotel

  Fearnley, Laurence, 1963-

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  "Following a disastrous family holiday, Libby and Curtis make a promise: If they ever visit the West Coast of the South Island again, it will be to stay at the majestic Grand Glacier Hotel. Twenty years later, Libby is recovering from cancer and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Audition

  Adam, Pip

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  "Audition is hurtling through space towards the event horizon. Squashed immobile into its rooms are three giants: Alba, Stanley and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, they resume growing. Talk they must, and as they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beyond the Door of No Return

  Diop, David, 1966-

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  "Written with sensitivity and narrative flair, David Diop’s Beyond the Door of No Return is a love story like few others. Drawing on the richness and lyricism of Senegal’s oral traditions, Diop has constructed a historical epic of the highest order."

• Blackouts

  a Novel

  Torres, Justin, 1980-

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  "A book about storytelling—its legacies, dangers, delights, and potential for change—and a bold exploration of form, art, and love, Justin Torres’s Blackouts uses fiction to see through the inventions of history and narrative. A marvel of creative…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Caledonian Road

  O'Hagan, Andrew, 1968-

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  "Campbell Flynn is fuelled by an appetite for wealth and admiration, controversy and novelty. An art historian and celebrity pundit, he has enjoyed a charmed career and spent years rubbing shoulders with oligarchs and aristocrats, fashion designers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• City in Ruins

  a Novel

  Winslow, Don, 1953-

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  "Former Irish mob soldier, Danny Ryan, is now a Las Vegas casino mogul. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. When he tries to buy an old hotel on a prime piece of real estate,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dark Ride

  a Thriller

  Berney, Louis

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  "Twenty-one-year-old Hardy ‘Hardly’ Reed is a minimum-wage scare actor at an amusement park. When he notices two children with signs of abuse, he reports it to Child Protective Services, but when they fail to take action, he takes it upon himself.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death of a Foreign Gentleman

  Carroll, Steven, 1949-

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  "Martin Friedrich, a German philosopher, is cycling through an intersection when a speeding car strikes and kills him. Shortly afterwards, Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, an Austrian-born Jew, stands over the body of Friedrich, contemplating the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Edenglassie

  Lucashenko, Melissa, 1967-

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  "When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with white…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Farewell to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

  Rodriguez, Deborah

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  "Sunny Tedder is back in her beloved coffee shop. After eight years away, she’s thrilled to reunite with her Kabul ‘family’: Yazmina now runs a pair of women’s shelters from the old cafe, and dreams of a bright future for her two young daughters.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fire Exit

  a Novel

  Talty, Morgan, 1991-

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  "From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine’s Penobscot Reservation. He caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth’s life—from the day she came home from the hospital to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hagstone

  Gleeson, Sinéad

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  "On a wild and rugged island cut off and isolated to some, artist Nell finds inspiration for her art. The mysterious Iníons, a commune of women who have travelled from all over the world, consider the island a place of refuge and solace in nature.…Read moreRead more of this annotation