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The Poison Throne gets a White Raven

This just in from the International Youth Library: The Poison Throne has been selected for a White Ravens award for 2009: these awards are for newly published books from around the world that are...

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O’Brien Press Success on Irish Book Awards Shortlist

The Irish Book Awards Shortlist was announced in Dublin yesterday and not one but two O’Brien Press books have been nominated!  There were nominations for Judi Curtin‘s Alice & Megan Forever and...

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30 editions on, it’s as fresh as ever

In 1990 a very unusual manuscript from a new author arrived in The O’Brien Press. It was a story about the Great Irish Famine and involved the desperate journey of three starving children across the...

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Guinness is good for us!

As a lovely Valentine’s Day Present we are delighted to announce that The Guinness Story by Edward J Bourke has won the Best Drinks History Book Award at the prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Awards,...

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O’Brien Press author is named first ever Laureate na nÓg

Irish children’s author Siobhán Parkinson was named the first ever Laureate na nÓg in a ceremony in Dublin yesterday. A new initiative by the Arts Council, with the support of Children’s Books Ireland,...

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Watch out for Erika McGann!

We catch up with the award-winning children’s author on all her latest projects. This autumn sees the publication of the third book in your supernatural series, The Watching Wood. This time Grace and...

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It’s All About the Socks for Mr Wolf

Tatyana Feeney, author and illustrator of the wonderful picture book Socks for Mr Wolf, shares her story about where this quirky character came from and shows us the awesomeness of socks! Poor Mr....

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