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The publishing house Dead Bird Books was created by Hoey and Samuel Walsh in 2018. In speaking about the founding of the publishing group, co-founder Walsh said "we both had experience in publishing records, so we thought, let’s put out books like we’d put out a record and see what happens." The
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is so rich and madly entertaining that I'm just going to read it again, immediately, as should you" with the book being described as "the year's most exciting novel" and "a sharp jab from the heart of life on the poverty line in
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described the book as one of the year's best, and, on its exclusion from the Book Awards, one reviewer noted that it was "a terrific novel of pace and tightly controlled chaos, with a unique voice, empathy and humour."
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Short Story Awards with "1986". The judge's award described the story as "a sharply observant social commentary on the
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