Paul Murray and Michael Magee won the inaugural Nero fiction awards for The Bee Sting and Close to Home, respectively, replacing the Costa book awards.

Paul Murray and Michael Magee have won the inaugural Nero fiction awards, which have effectively replaced the long-running Costa book awards. The Bee Sting, Murray's tragicomic family saga set in post-crash rural Ireland, won the Nero fiction award. Close to Home, Magee's strongly autobiographical novel about a young west Belfast Catholic struggling to navigate the post-conflict landscape, won the Nero debut fiction award.

January 30, 2024
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