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The Spinning Heart, his 2013 debut novel, was shortlisted for the Impac Dublin Literary Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and named Irish Book of the Decade. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 18\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDonal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an award-winning author from Nenagh, County Tipperary, whose work has been published in over twenty languages to major critical acclaim. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Spinning Heart \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewon the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland), and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; it was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was voted 'Irish Book of the Decade'. His fourth novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom a Low and Quiet Sea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018, and won the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature. His most recent novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStrange Flowers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, was voted Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and was a No. 1 bestseller. Donal lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. 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Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation above them tries to push back the tide of an enemy none of them can touch. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"strange-flowers-pb-w2","title":"Donal Ryan: Strange Flowers: The Number One Bestseller [2021] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'You have to truly love people to write like this'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eRachel Joyce\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the greatest novels of this century' \u003ci\u003eSunday Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gorgeously wrought' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e________________\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFive years later, Moll returns. 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