Breakfast Business

Whether it’s Sally Rooney, Joseph O’Connor, Colin Tobin or Roddy Doyle, Ireland is currently blessed with a crop of wonderful writers. In fact the Irish publishing industry is also in rude health. But how do they pick winners and how do dreamt-up words end up on bookshelves especially now as the sector faces its busiest period of the year? Deirdre Nolan runs Irish division of the Swedish owned Bonnier Books which aims to publish 16 books next year.