Shadow-Box - Antonia Logue
Antonia Logue was born in Park, Co Derry in 1972, and lived in Ireland until 1985 when she moved with her family to Brussels. She returned to study for a degree in English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and graduated in 1995. From 1990 she worked as a freelance journalist, contributing to the Sunday Independent, The Irish Times, the Guardian, the Scotsman and the Times. She now lives in the fishing village of Castletownshend, west Cork, and writes full-time. She has been named one of the Observer's 21 writers for the 21st century. Shadow-box is her first novel.
Shadow-box is published by Bloomsbury
This Side of Brightness - Colum McCann
Colum McCann was born and raised in Dublin, and now divides his time between Dublin and New York City. At the age of 21 he left Ireland and spent two years cycling across the United States, starting in Massachusetts and finishing up in San Francisco, working at different jobs along the way. He moved to New York in January 1998. He was awarded the 1994 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for his short story collection, Fishing the Sloe- Black River, and is the author of the highly praised novel, Songdogs, which he has adapted for screen.
This Side of Brightness is published by Metropolitan Books US, 1998; Phoenix House, UK, 1998
As It Is In Heaven - Niall Williams
Niall Williams was born in Dublin. He took a degree in French and English at University College, Dublin. He gave up a New York publishing career to return to Ireland with his wife Christine, to start a new life in west Clare. He and his wife wrote a series of books chronicling their massive upheaval in lifestyles for an American audience. The books were published in the US and remain popular there. After 11 years in west Clare, he completed his debut novel Four Letters of Love which was subsequently published in 26 countries and 19 languages to wide acclaim.
As It is in Heaven is pub- lished by Picador