It is our very great pleasure to announce Ireland: Mapping the Island by Joseph Brady and Paul Ferguson as Hodges Figgis' Book of the Year, joining Run Home, Little Fox by Tom McCaughren & Erika McGann, illustrated by Shannon Bergin as our Children's Book of the Year.
Book of the Year
Book of the Year
Ireland: Mapping the Island
Joseph Brady & Paul Ferguson
We are delighted to announce Ireland: Mapping the Island as our Hodges Figgis Book of the Year. From the noted map experts Joseph Brady and Paul Ferguson, the authors of our 2023 Book of the Year Dublin: Mapping the City, comes a celebration of the maps of Ireland produced over the centuries. In this beautifully produced volume, we see the story of Ireland told through its maps, from themes of conquest and colonisation to tourists and transport. Ranging from late medieval maps, many of which were produced in Germany and Italy, showing Ireland as an ill-defined, blobby island with a handful of named rivers and tribes, to maps produced since the 1930s by the military powers of a number of countries.
Children's Book of the Year
Children's Book of the Year
Run Home, Little Fox
Tom McCaughren (author), Erika McGann (author), Shannon Bergin (illustrator)
From two of Ireland's most beloved children's authors comes the heartwarming tale of Foxy, a young cub who sets out to find his own adventure in the Wild Wood, through beautiful illustrations by Shannon Bergin, we see his journey and the friends he meets along the way. Our children's booksellers fell in love with this book as soon as they laid eyes on it, and so many of us grew up reading Tom's 'Run with the Wind' series, it felt like a natural choice for our Children's Book of the Year, and we hope you love it as much as we do
