Who will win the €20,000 prize for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year? I’m traveling down tomorrow to Listowel Writers’ Week to help present the prize I co-judged this year.

The shortlist for the 2025 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award is:
Christine Dwyer Hickey – Our London Lives (Atlantic Books, 2024)
Joseph O’Connor – The Ghosts of Rome (Harvill Secker, 2025)
Colm Tóibín – Long Island (Picador and Pan Macmillan, 2024)
Niall Williams – Time of the Child (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024)
Donal Ryan – Heart, Be At Peace (Penguin Random House, 2024)