2000 International Dublin Literary Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

Wide Open

Nicola Barker

WIDE OPEN is set on the strange Isle Of Sheppey, which pokes out into into the estuary of the River Thames. On this forgotten misty island there is a nudist beach, a nature reserve, a wild boar farm and not much else. The landscape is bare, but the charact…

Charming Billy

Alice McDermott

I Married a Communist

Philip Roth

Paradise

Toni Morrison

The Hours

Michael Cunningham

This Side of Brightness

Colum McCann

Trumpet

Jackie Kay