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Marian Keyes


Ireland (b.1963)

Marian Keyes lives in Dublin. She has published six novels, which have all been international bestsellers, garnering great reviews and selling more than 2.5 million copies: Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon and Sushi for Beginners and Angels.
 

Awards: Nibbies (2022)  see all

Genres: General Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
Series
Walsh Family
   1. Watermelon (1995)
   2. Rachel's Holiday (1997)
   3. Angels (2002)
   4. Anybody Out There? (2006)
   5. The Mystery of Mercy Close (2012)
   5.5. Mammy Walsh's A-Z of the Walsh Family (2012)
   6. Again, Rachel (2022)
   7. My Favourite Mistake (2024)

     aka My Favorite Mistake

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Novels
   Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married (1996)
   Last Chance Saloon (1999)
   Sushi for Beginners (2000)
   Yeats is Dead! (2001) (with others)
   The Other Side Of The Story (2004)
   This Charming Man (2008)
   The Brightest Star in the Sky (2009)
   The Woman Who Stole My Life (2014)
   The Break (2017)
   Grown-Ups (2020)
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Collections
   Girls' Night in (2000) (with others)
   Irish Girls about Town (2002) (with Maeve Binchy and Cathy Kelly)
   Big Night Out (2002) (with others)
   Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany's (2005)
   Cracks in My Foundation (2005)
   The Worst Noel (2005) (with Mike Albo and Stanley Bing)
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Books containing stories by Marian Keyes
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Dear NHS (2020)
100 Stories to Say Thank You
edited by
Adam Kay

Awards
2022 British Book Award Author of the Year
2007 Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award : Anybody Out There?

Award nominations
2022 Wodehouse Prize (nominee) : Again, Rachel
2018 British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year (shortlist) : The Break
2009 Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award (nominee) : This Charming Man


Marian Keyes recommends
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Pity Party (2024)
Daisy Buchanan
"What a read! What a tear jerker! But very funny, and written with such breezy wit, and characters I ADORED. Daisy is EXCELLENT."
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A Good Place to Hide a Body (2024)
Laura Marshall
"I read it in one go."
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You Belong with Me (2024)
Mhairi McFarlane
"14/10 on the QWJ scale (queasy with jealousy scale)! I WISH I'd written it. I loved this book so much."

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