{"id":210875,"date":"2025-12-25T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/210875\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T22:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T22:17:09","slug":"new-irish-books-on-the-block-in-2026-buzzy-novels-to-add-to-your-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/210875\/","title":{"rendered":"New Irish books on the block in 2026 \u2013 buzzy novels to add to your reading list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nA feast of fine fiction debuts awaits readers in the new year\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tanya Sweeney has a new publishing deal. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SF Tanya Sweeney 2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Tanya Sweeney has a new publishing deal. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As the the very proud sponsor of the Newcomer of the Year Book Award, we\u2019re always excited to see what new fiction is coming from Irish writers, so it\u2019s wonderful to report that there\u2019s much to look forward to in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The year starts with a real gem. I read it back in September on holiday on the divine Riviera di Levante, but I still find myself smiling when I think of Irish Independent journalist Tanya Sweeney\u2019s Esther is Now Following You. Due in a fortnight from Bantam Press, this funny, fierce first novel tells the story of young woman who develops an obsession with a famous comedian and starts stalking him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A feast of fine fiction debuts awaits readers in the new year Tanya Sweeney has a new publishing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6992],"class_list":["post-210875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}