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bluestar Confessions of a Fallen Angel winner of Irish Book Award!!!bluestar

Yep, it's true . . . I've won an Irish Book Award. How mad is that? Truly unbelievable and definitely the highlight of an amazing journey that started quite a long time ago now. Thank you so much to everyone that voted for Confessions. Hopefully the award will mean more copies are sold not because I want the royalties, but because I love it when these characters come alive all over again in the heads of new readers. I don't think they want to be pulped just yet. Thanks for your support.



The award was presented to me by 2008 winner Anita Notaro
and shown here with the CEO of International Education Services, John Treacy




Check out the new silverware!

 

To get a flavour of the evening, check out the TV3 and Irish Times links below:

TV3 video

Irish Times article on awards night

OTHER NEWS


Paperback selected as one of the 12 titles in the running for
The Times Paperback of the Year 2008

Paperback available in WHSmith for only £2.99 when
purchased with a copy of The Times or Sunday Times
week commencing 27/10/08

Book of the Week in Tesco stores throughout the UK and Ireland
week commencing 27/10/08

THE TIMES/WHSMITH PROMOTION


"O'Brien writes with a charming, lilting beauty in the finest tradition of Irish storytelling"

PAPERBACK COVERS

The paperback edition of Confessions of a Fallen Angel is out now! The designers at Sceptre have done a fabulous job to come up with covers that capture the essence of the book and they have produced not one but four different covers including an early draft that won't make it to the printers. There will be different paperback covers in Ireland, the UK and the rest of the world. You can check them out below. Double click on the thumbnails to see an enlarged version.

 
DRAFT UK COVER

CONFIRMED UK COVER

DRAFT IRISH COVER



CONFIRMED IRISH COVER



WORLDWIDE COVER

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HARDBACK COVER

YOU'LL LAUGH, YOU'LL CRY, YOU WON'T FORGET


"Dying was the easy bit. It was during my life after death that things started to go wrong. A conspiracy of coincidences perhaps or else maybe some higher power was having a laugh at my expense. But when I returned from the other side I brought something fearful back with me."


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LAUNCH NIGHT


Confessions of a Fallen Angel was launched in Hughes & Hughes in Dublin on 15th January 2008.

A big thank you to the lovely staff at Hughes and Hughes for being such great hosts on the night and for their backing and promotion of Confessions of a Fallen Angel.

Here are some photos from the evening. To see more, click on any of the photos on the right...


Copyright © 2010, Ronan O'Brien Photo: Bob Dixon