The Booker Prize in DCU Library

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik, a Czechoslovakian always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor's grand, central London apartment.And that very evening, at exactly 11.30pm, everything changes.

Howard Jacobson has written 16 novels and five works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.
The Finkler Question is located at Cregan Library

From birth, Serge Carrefax embraces a weird world of transmissions, filled with cryptic codes and poetic signals. In adolescence, this world takes on a darker aspect. What follows is a stunning tour de force in which the eerily idyllic settings of pre-war Europe give way to the exhilarating flightpaths of the frontline aeroplane radio operator, the prison camps of Germany, the drug-fuelled London of the roaring twenties and, finally, the ancient tombs of Egypt.
Located at Cregan Library

Olivier is the traumatised French aristocrat who has been sent to the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons but in reality to save his neck in case of a future revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer, who has been sent to protect and spy on Olivier. With the narrative shifting between the perspectives of master and servant, the adventure of American democracy unfolds.
Located at Cregan and O'Reilly Libraries

There is a moment when any real journey begins. A young man makes three journeys that take him through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and who he meets on the way - including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers and a woman on the edge - he is the Follower, the Lover and the Guardian. Yet, despite the man’s best intentions, each journey ends in disaster. Together, these journeys will change his life.
Located at Cregan Library

Told from the perspective of five-year-old Jack, Emma Donoghue’s profoundly affecting novel is a devastating portrait of a boundless maternal loveThe novel opens as Jack turns five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room. Room has a single locked door and a skylight, and it measures ten feet by ten feet. Jack loves watching TV but he knows that nothing he sees on the screen is truly real - only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits there is another world outside.
Located at Cregan, O'Reilly and Woodlock Hall Libraries

Set during the turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed, The Long Song is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. Based on the lives of the people who live and work on the Amity sugar plantation, the narrative centres around July, a slave girl with an indomitable spirit for survival.
Located at Cregan Library