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As Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin– shortlisted for our Discoveries Award 2022 – reveals the cover of her debut novel, ‘Ordinary Saints’ (24th April 2025), she shares with us the challenges of making sure it reflects the story: womensprize.com/behind-the-cov…

At Manilla Press, we’re thrilled to be introducing the Winner of the PFD Queer Fiction Prize and the shortlisted author of the Women's Prize Discoveries Award @NiamhSquared and her stunning debut novel #OrdinarySaints. Pre-order a copy now: loom.ly/bB6Kj3g

So excited to reveal this glorious cover design for #OrdinarySaints Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin I absolutely fell in love with this arresting, unmissable prize-winning debut novel - an exploration of family, grief, queer identity, and the legacy of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

Incidentally, Pope Francis canonised 14 new saints yesterday. It's quite a beautiful ceremony - no one does these moments like the Vatican. Scroll to 1.25 for the best bit, and the moment my protagonist imagines herself into.

And this is the reaction to the moment of canonisation at the home Cathedral of some of the new saints. The novel focuses a lot on how wild this process is, when viewed through secular eyes. But this is a reminder of how much it still means to devout Catholics.

I urge you all to pre-order #OrdinarySaints, it's completely brilliant! Published in April 2025 by Manilla Press, this is quite a novel. An empathetic, nuanced exploration of the Catholic church in modern Ireland, queer identity, family and so much more. It is amazing! 📚😇😍

So excited to be working with Niamh on her fantastic debut #OrdinarySaints - an exploration of family, identity and the Catholic Church. Limited proofs available now. Watch this space for lots more to come! #debutnovel #debutauthor #Debuts2025

A week since we revealed this pure banger of a cover for #OrdinarySaints and I'm still flying. Thanks so much to all the angels and saints who've pre-ordered, messaged, commented, shared and even read (!) since then. It's really meant the world to me ❤️

Untrue. Only this morning I realised that I don't know nearly enough about the 1953 evacuation of the Blasket Islands to possibly progress with my new novel, in which the islands won't feature in any way.

This is such a smart read about Small Things Like These. It points out that the story may be set in the past but the bystander effect that’s at the centre of it is still very real in Ireland. It says there are a lot of situations right now where Ireland has “a kind of strategic

Went away for a few days, came back to the best book post. Can't remember when I was last as excited to read something. This Immaculate Body by Emma van Straaten - coming Feb 25. Thanks Fleet!

Thanks Bonnier Books UK and #manilapress for my copy of #ordinarysaints by #NiamhNiMhaoileoin which comes out April 2025

In 2020, I read a news story about Carlo's beatifcation and was so fascinated that I wrote a novel about the bizarre and disturbing world of contemporary saintmaking. Yesterday, the Pope announced that Carlo will be canonised THE SAME WEEK that the book comes out. Like, what??

So great to see Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin and her fantastic debut #OrdinarySaints featured as one of the top 10 April picks in today's The Bookseller big thanks to Lauren Brown! Limited proofs still available! #Debutauthor #debutfiction

So happy to see that The Bookseller have picked #OrdinarySaints Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin as a book not to be missed for April 🥳

We're thrilled to reveal this season’s picks for the @bbcradio2 Book Club!✨ Congratulations to the authors Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin, #VirginaEvans, Catherine Chidgey, Victoria/V.E. Schwab, Beth Lewis is on Bluesky and TJR NEWS ONLY 🎉 🔗l8r.it/4HRM 🎧#Radio2BookClub podcast with @djsaracox on @bbcsounds.

Ahead of her debut novel 'Ordinary Saints, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin (Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin) chats to Elspeth Wilson about the legacies of the Catholic church, the flattening of narrative, and whether sainthood can be queered theskinny.co.uk/books/features… Bonnier Books UK