On Wednesday’s Morning Focus, Teresa Carmody O’Shea and Dolores Meaney of the Clare County Library HQ joined Gavin to offer their tips on the best books for you to buy as last minute Christmas gifts.
You can listen back to their conversation below:
The recommended books include:
Literary Fiction
Normal People by Sally Rooney
From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan
Milkman by Anna Burns
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
Popular Fiction
Importance of Being Aisling by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen (follow up to Oh My God What a Complete Aisling)
Dancing with the Tsars by Ross O’Carroll Kelly
A Keeper by Graham Norton
Crime
Skin Deep by Liz Nugent
Snap by Belinda Bauer
Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Murder at Greysbridge by Andrea Carter
Local History
Go Make Disciples of All Nations by John Bradley and Cora McNulty (Clare Roots)
Men and Women of Clare in WW2 by Ger Browne (Clare Roots)
Three Men from Clare – Jackie Elger and Patricia Sheehan
Non-Fiction
Notes to Self by Emilie Pine
Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Cow Book by John Connell
In Pieces by Sally Field
Usual selection of Cookery Books, e.g. The Happy Pear, Ballymaloe, Darina Allen
Sport
At All Costs by Davy Fitzgerald
Game Changer by Cora Staunton
Great Moments in Irish Rugby – Sportsfile
The GAA and the war of Independence by Tim Pat Coogan
Children’s Pre-school
The President’s Cat by Peter Donnelly
The Magic Moment by Niall Breslin (Bressie)
The Dog Who Lost his Bark by Eoin Colfer
Children’s 6-12
The Ice Monster by David Walliams
The Head Kid by David Baddiel
Blazing a Trail by Sarah Webb
Dr. Hibernica Finch’s Compelling Compendium of Irish Animals by Rob Maguire and Aga Grandowicz
Young Adult 12+
Twelve Angels Weeping by Dave Rudden
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan
Gaeilge
An Nollaig Thuas by Aoife Ní Dhufaigh (Children’s)
Labhair Amach by Áine Uí Fhoghlú (Young Adult)
Dialann Mo Mháthar by By Padraic Breathnach (Adult Fiction)
Craic Baby by Darach Ó Seaghdha (Motherfóclóir follow up)
Poetry
Lies by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
100 Poems: Seamus Heaney (selected & introduced by the Heaney Family)
