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LeafLight Moon wins at the CAP Awards!

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LeafLight Moon has won the 2025 CAP Award for Fiction, and the Golden CAP for best independently published book. CAP Awards patron Paul Lynch announced Monica Corish as the overall winner at the award ceremony in Chapters Bookstore on October 10.

Judge Alan Ryan said of LeafLight Moon – a novel of prehistoric Ireland: “One story in particular stayed with me long after I put it down. It was multi-layered yet simple, occasionally quirky yet completely believable. I could easily imagine the events and time it told of happening exactly as written. I’d love to see it as a film. I reckon it would make a stunning Irish version of The Mission.”

LeafLight Moon is available in-store from Chapters Bookstore and Books Upstairs in Dublin, Liber Books in Sligo, A Novel Idea in Ballyshannon, and The Four Masters in Donegal town; online from Lulu Bookstore, Bookshop.org in the US, Waterstones in the UK, and other online outlets; and as an e-book from Amazon UK.

The Carousel Aware Prize for Independently Published Authors (The CAP for Indies) aims to provide a platform to showcase the cream of Irish Self-Published authors, bringing them to the attention of book shops, distributors, and the media in Ireland and abroad, with all money raised going to the charity Aware.

Watch the awards ceremony here (fiction prize at 1:14:44)

Monica Corish with Carolann Copland – photo credit Christine Higgins

LeafLight Moon shortlisted for CAP Awards…

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… and Tom Sigafoos’s novel ‘Pool of Darkness – Raymond Chandler in Ireland’, also published by Púca Books. Paul Lynch, patron of the CAP Awards for Indies, will announce the winners at an event in Dublin in October.

LeafLight Moon can be purchased at the launch on Friday, August 22 at 5 pm in the Yeats Building, Hyde Bridge, Sligo, F91 DVY4. The event is free, and no booking is required.

LeafLight Moon is available for pre-order and postal delivery from Liber Books in Sligo and A Novel Idea in Ballyshannon; as an e-book from Amazon UK; and from multiple online retailers over the coming days.

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‘Pool of Darkness’ and ‘LeafLight Moon’ on CAP Awards Longlist

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Tom Sigafoos and I are both on the 2025 Fiction Longlist for the Carousel Awards for Irish Independent Authors, under the patronage of Booker prizewinner Paul Lynch. The shortlist will be announced in mid-August, and the winners on October 10 at Chapters Book Shop in Dublin.

Tom’s Pool of Darkness: Raymond Chandler in Ireland imagines a 1948 encounter between crime novelist Chandler and philosopher Wittgenstein in a remote corner of County Galway. As the two notoriously-reclusive men develop an unlikely friendship, they stumble into a conspiracy that involves former Nazis, the US House Un-American Activities Committee, and a cat belonging to the widow of William Butler Yeats. Theo Dorgan describes the book as “… a gem and a joy”…

LeafLight Moon – a novel of prehistoric Ireland will be launched by Susan O’Keeffe during Sligo’s Heritage Week. Closely researched and set 6000 years ago in the rich prehistoric landscapes of Sligo and the north-west, LeafLight Moon tells the story of the fateful encounter between Ireland’s first farmers and the hunter-gatherers of the Hearth of MotherMountain.