Underworld - Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo grew up in the Bronx, the son of Italian immigrant parents. He is the author of 11 novels, including White Noise, Mao II, The Names, Running Dog, End Zone, Great Jones Street, Americana and Libra, which won the first Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. He has won the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Underworld is published by Picador
A Star Called Henry - Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin and is the author of five previous novels, The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha for which he received the Booker Prize in 1993. He has also written two stage plays, Brownbread and War which were performed by the Passion Machine theatre company.
A Star Called Henry is published by Jonathan Cape
Birds Of America - Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker; The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She is the author of two previous short story collections: her debut in 1985, Self-Help and Like-Life. She has also published two novels, Anagrams and Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Birds of America is published by Knopf
The Love Of A Good Woman - Alice Munro
Alice Munro is a Canadian writer who has been twice previously short-listed for The Irish Times International Fiction Prize for her short story collections Friend of My Youth and Open Secrets. She is the author of one novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and other short story collections, including Open Secrets, which won the W.H. Smith Literary Award. She has been nominated for the Booker Prize and twice won the Governor General's Award.
The Love of a Good Woman is published by Chatto & Windus