2019 Award Winners An Post Irish Book of the Year Overcoming – Vicky Phelan with Naomi Linehan (Hachette Books) RTÉ Radio 1 Listeners’ Choice Award Overcoming – Vicky Phelan with Naomi Linehan (Hachette Books) – Championed by Ray D’Arcy Bord Gáis Energy Sports Book of the Year Recovering – Richie Sadlier with Dion Fanning (Gill Books) Avoca Cookbook of the Year Cornucopia: The Green Cookbook – Tony Keogh, Aoife Carrigy, the Chefs of Cornucopia, Deirdre and Dairine McCafferty (Gill Books) Irish Independent Crime Fiction Book of the Year Cruel Acts – Jane Casey (HarperFiction) Bookselling Ireland Non-Fiction Book of the Year Constellations – Sinéad Gleeson (Picador) TheJournal.ie Best Irish-Published Book of the Year Children of the Troubles – Joe Duffy and Freya McClements (Hachette Books Ireland) Love Leabhar Gaeilge Irish Language Book of the Year Tairngreacht – Proinsias Mac a’Bhaird (LeabhairComhar) Dept51@Eason Teen & Young Adult Book of the Year Other Words for Smoke – Sarah Maria Griffin (Titan Books) Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year – Senior Shooting for the Stars - My Journey to Become Ireland’s First Astronaut – Norah Patten, illustrated by Jennifer Farley (The O’Brien Press) Specsavers Children’s Book of the Year – Junior 123 Ireland! – Aoife Dooley (Little Island Books) Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year When All is Said – Anne Griffin (Hodder & Stoughton) National Book Tokens Popular Fiction Book of the Year Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling – Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen (Gill Books) Listowel Writers’ Week Irish Poem of the Year Salt Rain – Audrey Molloy (Mslexia, September 2019) Writing.ie Short Story of the Year Award Parrot – Nicole Flattery (The Stinging Fly, Issue 39, Volume 2, Winter 2018-19) Ireland AM Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year Barefoot Pilgrimage – Andrea Corr (HarperNonFiction) Eason Novel of the Year Shadowplay – Joseph O’Connor (Harvill Secker)