Solace

Belinda McKeon's beautiful debut novel Solace won the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year for 2011 and has been lauded by authors and critics alike. It follows the relationship of Mark Casey and Joanne Lynch, and the family feud that threatens to end their affair.

Read on for Belinda's extensive list of what's worth reading - the books, the blogs and on Twitter.

This year we published Suzette Field's A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Literature. Parties are at the heart of literature, they're where the drama happens; this book is a compendium of who was there, what they wore, what was eaten and who said what to whom. In tribute to all the festivities in the book, we've asked our authors to tell us a little about their best parties, real and fictional.