Little Acorns Bookstore
@littleacornsbooks.bsky.social
Award-winning Indie bookshop, Derry, North of Ireland. 70k new & used books. Est 2011. Two LegenDerry Chairs (380 signatures). Typewriter Museum due to open 2025. Donegal owner💚📚
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Oh wow! It's been a true whirlwind 48 hours - still on a massive high. Thank-you SO SO MUCH to #AnPost #AnPostIrishBookAwards #BooksellingIreland & to all those who voted; who write, draw, make, champion, sell, read, love books. What an honour to be part of your story! Photos soon! 💚📚😍 #APIBA #Derry
Cast your VOTE in this year's #IrishBookAwards
@irishbookawards.bsky.social celebrating the best Irish writing in 2025 in 19 categories. See tinyurl.com/5e5wpx2e Closes 16 Nov, winners revealed 27 Nov. Pictured are a selection of the fiction & non-fiction shortlistees 💚📚🏆
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
@irishbookawards.bsky.social celebrating the best Irish writing in 2025 in 19 categories. See tinyurl.com/5e5wpx2e Closes 16 Nov, winners revealed 27 Nov. Pictured are a selection of the fiction & non-fiction shortlistees 💚📚🏆
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
November 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Cast your VOTE in this year's #IrishBookAwards
@irishbookawards.bsky.social celebrating the best Irish writing in 2025 in 19 categories. See tinyurl.com/5e5wpx2e Closes 16 Nov, winners revealed 27 Nov. Pictured are a selection of the fiction & non-fiction shortlistees 💚📚🏆
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
@irishbookawards.bsky.social celebrating the best Irish writing in 2025 in 19 categories. See tinyurl.com/5e5wpx2e Closes 16 Nov, winners revealed 27 Nov. Pictured are a selection of the fiction & non-fiction shortlistees 💚📚🏆
#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
You are invited to VOTE in the #IrishBookAwards @irishbookawards.bsky.social celebrating the very best of Irish writing in 2025 in 19 categories. See tinyurl.com/5e5wpx2e Closes 16 Nov, winners revealed 27 Nov. Pictured are the children's & YA shortlistees 💚📚🏆 #APIBA #StoriesMakeUs #ChildrensBooks
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
You are invited to VOTE in the #IrishBookAwards @irishbookawards.bsky.social celebrating the very best of Irish writing in 2025 in 19 categories. See tinyurl.com/5e5wpx2e Closes 16 Nov, winners revealed 27 Nov. Pictured are the children's & YA shortlistees 💚📚🏆 #APIBA #StoriesMakeUs #ChildrensBooks
Best of luck to the 6 shortlisted for @thebookerprizes.com: Flashlight by #SusanChoi Audition by #KatieKitamura The Loneliness of Sonia & Sunny by #KiranDesai The Rest of Our Lives by #BenjaminMarkovits The Land in Winter by #AndrewMiller & Flesh by #DavidSzalay. Revealed 10 Nov #BookerPrize2025💚📚🏆
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Best of luck to the 6 shortlisted for @thebookerprizes.com: Flashlight by #SusanChoi Audition by #KatieKitamura The Loneliness of Sonia & Sunny by #KiranDesai The Rest of Our Lives by #BenjaminMarkovits The Land in Winter by #AndrewMiller & Flesh by #DavidSzalay. Revealed 10 Nov #BookerPrize2025💚📚🏆
#Derry buzzing with the #ONeillsFoyleCup kicking off this morn with 950 global football teams, boys & girls ages 6-18yrs. The #FoyleCup energy & excitement was electric! Thought I’d team up & celebrate with themed windows. Inside there’s a pitch full of #books! #FoyleCup2025 #ONeillsFoyleCup ⚽️📚🏆
July 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#Derry buzzing with the #ONeillsFoyleCup kicking off this morn with 950 global football teams, boys & girls ages 6-18yrs. The #FoyleCup energy & excitement was electric! Thought I’d team up & celebrate with themed windows. Inside there’s a pitch full of #books! #FoyleCup2025 #ONeillsFoyleCup ⚽️📚🏆
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For your amusement… ahead of event in award-winning Little Acorns Bookshop in Derry tonight 🙂
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The Mark Patterson Show - Eamon Carr – From Horslips to Journalism - BBC Sounds
Horslips drummer Eamon Carr's new book on some of the celebs he has met down the years.
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July 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
For your amusement… ahead of event in award-winning Little Acorns Bookshop in Derry tonight 🙂
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Pure excited about this eve’s #Derry Book Launch of #PureGold - Memorable Conversations with Remarkable People by author, musician & historian #EamonCarr in chat with fellow author & musician #ColumArbuckle this eve, Thurs 17 July 7pm. Tickets: tinyurl.com/nk8kcn6d 📚🎶💚 Published by #MerrionPress
July 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Pure excited about this eve’s #Derry Book Launch of #PureGold - Memorable Conversations with Remarkable People by author, musician & historian #EamonCarr in chat with fellow author & musician #ColumArbuckle this eve, Thurs 17 July 7pm. Tickets: tinyurl.com/nk8kcn6d 📚🎶💚 Published by #MerrionPress
Absolutely honoured to win the @derryjournal.com Business Person of the Year 2025, sponsored by #CalorDirect & in such esteemed company. Thank-you so much to all who keep us small local businesses thriving & surviving. Up #Donegal & #Derry 📚💚x
June 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Absolutely honoured to win the @derryjournal.com Business Person of the Year 2025, sponsored by #CalorDirect & in such esteemed company. Thank-you so much to all who keep us small local businesses thriving & surviving. Up #Donegal & #Derry 📚💚x
Pure lured to catch the #Dublin book launch in #BooksUpstairs
of #PureGold- Memorable Conversations with Remarkable People by the legend - #EamonCarr author, historian, journalist & member of #Horslips. Published by #MerrionPress Copies available @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social #Derry📚💚🎶
of #PureGold- Memorable Conversations with Remarkable People by the legend - #EamonCarr author, historian, journalist & member of #Horslips. Published by #MerrionPress Copies available @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social #Derry📚💚🎶
June 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Pure lured to catch the #Dublin book launch in #BooksUpstairs
of #PureGold- Memorable Conversations with Remarkable People by the legend - #EamonCarr author, historian, journalist & member of #Horslips. Published by #MerrionPress Copies available @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social #Derry📚💚🎶
of #PureGold- Memorable Conversations with Remarkable People by the legend - #EamonCarr author, historian, journalist & member of #Horslips. Published by #MerrionPress Copies available @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social #Derry📚💚🎶
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It's been far too long since I was in Derry - I can't wait to go to @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social this week and chat about Barren with the amazing Sue Divin @suedivinwriter.bsky.social
If you're in the Northwest, please pop in to say hello!
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#derry #booksky
If you're in the Northwest, please pop in to say hello!
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#derry #booksky
BOOK LAUNCH: Barren (fiction) by BYDDI LEE in chat with author SUE DIVIN
BOOK LAUNCH: Barren (fiction) by BYDDI LEE in chat with author SUE DIVIN in Little Acorns Bookstore, Derry.
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June 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
It's been far too long since I was in Derry - I can't wait to go to @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social this week and chat about Barren with the amazing Sue Divin @suedivinwriter.bsky.social
If you're in the Northwest, please pop in to say hello!
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#derry #booksky
If you're in the Northwest, please pop in to say hello!
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#derry #booksky
Congratulations to #Derry author @brianmcgilloway.bsky.social
with his highly-anticipated latest #crime novel #TheOneYouLeastSuspect published by #Constable @littlebrown.bsky.social
Signed copies available from @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social 📚💚 #SupportLocal #IrishBooks #BooksAreMyBag
with his highly-anticipated latest #crime novel #TheOneYouLeastSuspect published by #Constable @littlebrown.bsky.social
Signed copies available from @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social 📚💚 #SupportLocal #IrishBooks #BooksAreMyBag
May 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Congratulations to #Derry author @brianmcgilloway.bsky.social
with his highly-anticipated latest #crime novel #TheOneYouLeastSuspect published by #Constable @littlebrown.bsky.social
Signed copies available from @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social 📚💚 #SupportLocal #IrishBooks #BooksAreMyBag
with his highly-anticipated latest #crime novel #TheOneYouLeastSuspect published by #Constable @littlebrown.bsky.social
Signed copies available from @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social 📚💚 #SupportLocal #IrishBooks #BooksAreMyBag
And the sun shone on for the #DerryJazzFestival 1-5 May 2025. The music, the magic, the mood & a little dancing, singing, laughing & more. Place is buzzing, so tune in or switch on to some jazzy #books too from #LittleAcornsBookstore #Derry 📚💚🎼🎺🎹🎷🎻💃🎊
May 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
And the sun shone on for the #DerryJazzFestival 1-5 May 2025. The music, the magic, the mood & a little dancing, singing, laughing & more. Place is buzzing, so tune in or switch on to some jazzy #books too from #LittleAcornsBookstore #Derry 📚💚🎼🎺🎹🎷🎻💃🎊
@poetryireland.bsky.social & #UlsterUniversity event with #JapaFire Poetry Anthology Book Launch featuring #NandiJola & others (virtual) in #LittleAcornsBookstore Thurs 1st May 6:30pm. All welcome. Free entry. Booking essential: tinyurl.com/5543fe2d 📚💚
Books for sale/signing
#PoetryDayIRL #Derry
Books for sale/signing
#PoetryDayIRL #Derry
April 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@poetryireland.bsky.social & #UlsterUniversity event with #JapaFire Poetry Anthology Book Launch featuring #NandiJola & others (virtual) in #LittleAcornsBookstore Thurs 1st May 6:30pm. All welcome. Free entry. Booking essential: tinyurl.com/5543fe2d 📚💚
Books for sale/signing
#PoetryDayIRL #Derry
Books for sale/signing
#PoetryDayIRL #Derry
📚Wed 23 April is #WorldBookNight - the perfect chance to celebrate books & reading; alone or together.
⏰ From 7-8pm this eve, all are welcome to join in the nationwide #ReadingHour & share! See the fab #TheReadingAgency 2025 #QuickReads titles for just £1 from participating #bookshops📖💚☕️ #Derry
⏰ From 7-8pm this eve, all are welcome to join in the nationwide #ReadingHour & share! See the fab #TheReadingAgency 2025 #QuickReads titles for just £1 from participating #bookshops📖💚☕️ #Derry
April 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
📚Wed 23 April is #WorldBookNight - the perfect chance to celebrate books & reading; alone or together.
⏰ From 7-8pm this eve, all are welcome to join in the nationwide #ReadingHour & share! See the fab #TheReadingAgency 2025 #QuickReads titles for just £1 from participating #bookshops📖💚☕️ #Derry
⏰ From 7-8pm this eve, all are welcome to join in the nationwide #ReadingHour & share! See the fab #TheReadingAgency 2025 #QuickReads titles for just £1 from participating #bookshops📖💚☕️ #Derry
Special eve with the internationally-revered & respected musician #KeithDonald who began his musical journey age 9 & still has that magic 7 decades later. Keith spoiled us with stories & live music at the #Derry book launch of his memoir #MusicAndMayhem published by @lilliputpress.bsky.social 📚💚🎷1/4
April 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Special eve with the internationally-revered & respected musician #KeithDonald who began his musical journey age 9 & still has that magic 7 decades later. Keith spoiled us with stories & live music at the #Derry book launch of his memoir #MusicAndMayhem published by @lilliputpress.bsky.social 📚💚🎷1/4
Despite the rain, we'd a cracking' #EasterMonday looking for the #GoldenDuck helped by #ScoobyDoo #PeterRabbit #PaddingtonBear #PoppyandSam. Over 35 little choc eggs, 10 little ducks & loads of stickers & #GuessHowMuchILoveYou Hare ears gifted to new homes, plus #Books! 📚💚🐣 #Derry
April 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Despite the rain, we'd a cracking' #EasterMonday looking for the #GoldenDuck helped by #ScoobyDoo #PeterRabbit #PaddingtonBear #PoppyandSam. Over 35 little choc eggs, 10 little ducks & loads of stickers & #GuessHowMuchILoveYou Hare ears gifted to new homes, plus #Books! 📚💚🐣 #Derry
One of my most cherished novels, (and eras) #TheGreatGatsby by #FScottFitzgerald is 100 years old today - 10 April 1925. What a magnificent, stunning, sparkling work; the jazz, the summer heat, decadence, deceit, love, despair, wealth, greed, loss... Tremendous! Happy Birthday, old sport 💚🎺 🥂📚
April 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
One of my most cherished novels, (and eras) #TheGreatGatsby by #FScottFitzgerald is 100 years old today - 10 April 1925. What a magnificent, stunning, sparkling work; the jazz, the summer heat, decadence, deceit, love, despair, wealth, greed, loss... Tremendous! Happy Birthday, old sport 💚🎺 🥂📚
Léigh is Pléigh // Irish Book Group - #GeansaitheMóra le #GearóidínNicCárthaighin with #CultúrlannUíChanáin
Sat 5 March 1pm. #Doire #Derry All welcome. Free admission. Light refreshments 📚💚
Sat 5 March 1pm. #Doire #Derry All welcome. Free admission. Light refreshments 📚💚
April 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Léigh is Pléigh // Irish Book Group - #GeansaitheMóra le #GearóidínNicCárthaighin with #CultúrlannUíChanáin
Sat 5 March 1pm. #Doire #Derry All welcome. Free admission. Light refreshments 📚💚
Sat 5 March 1pm. #Doire #Derry All welcome. Free admission. Light refreshments 📚💚
All welcome to award-winning poet #MartinMalone's #Derry book launch of #SONNETSFORMYMOTHERASLEAR published by #MariscatPress. Fri 28 March 7pm. Booking ESSENTIAL See: tinyurl.com/5cj7c3pv Light refreshments available 📚 1/2
Book Launch: SONNETS FOR MY MOTHER AS LEAR by Poet & Musician MARTIN MALONE
All welcome to the Derry Book Launch of award-winning poet, MARTIN MALONE, of his latest poetic work, SONNETS FOR MY MOTHER AS LEAR
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March 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
All welcome to award-winning poet #MartinMalone's #Derry book launch of #SONNETSFORMYMOTHERASLEAR published by #MariscatPress. Fri 28 March 7pm. Booking ESSENTIAL See: tinyurl.com/5cj7c3pv Light refreshments available 📚 1/2
Fascinating & sincere insight into the research & writing of #TheNextOneIsForYou A True Story of Guns, Country & the IRA's Secret American Army by award-winning journalist #AliWatkins @nytimes.com at the #Derry #BookLaunch. Publisher #IconBooks. Delighted Ali signed our #LegenDerryWritersChair!📚💚
March 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Fascinating & sincere insight into the research & writing of #TheNextOneIsForYou A True Story of Guns, Country & the IRA's Secret American Army by award-winning journalist #AliWatkins @nytimes.com at the #Derry #BookLaunch. Publisher #IconBooks. Delighted Ali signed our #LegenDerryWritersChair!📚💚
It's our 14th #Birthday today! Come join us for books, goodie bags & cake as a wee thank-you for all your support, loyalty & friendship! From 100 books to 70K & 7 different moves, we're still here! 📚💚🥳 #SupportLocal #ChooseBookshops #Derry #thankyou #lovebooks 🎉
March 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It's our 14th #Birthday today! Come join us for books, goodie bags & cake as a wee thank-you for all your support, loyalty & friendship! From 100 books to 70K & 7 different moves, we're still here! 📚💚🥳 #SupportLocal #ChooseBookshops #Derry #thankyou #lovebooks 🎉
Thanks for the share @bigbeardedbookseller.com BUT the #TypewriterMuseum is still in creation - hopefully ready by mid-2025. I've moved seven times, as a bookshop, in 13 years, so I'm finally in my 'forever home' which will have a room all of its own to showcase over 150 typewriters. Can't wait! 📚💚🖨️
A new directory page up on the Indie Bookshop blog, Little Acorns Bookstore in Derry, it's got a typewriter museum!
#BookSky #Bookshop #IndieBookshop #Bookstore 💙📚
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#BookSky #Bookshop #IndieBookshop #Bookstore 💙📚
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February 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Thanks for the share @bigbeardedbookseller.com BUT the #TypewriterMuseum is still in creation - hopefully ready by mid-2025. I've moved seven times, as a bookshop, in 13 years, so I'm finally in my 'forever home' which will have a room all of its own to showcase over 150 typewriters. Can't wait! 📚💚🖨️
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Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
February 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
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Jennifer Johnston obituary: Writer who combined brevity with razor-sharp wisdom www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2...
Jennifer Johnston obituary: Writer who combined brevity with razor-sharp wisdom
While Johnston was initially associated with the Big House literary tradition, she was above all a minutely observant chronicler of family dysfunction in Ireland
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February 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Jennifer Johnston obituary: Writer who combined brevity with razor-sharp wisdom www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2...
Sad to hear of the passing of the formidable, brilliant author #JenniferJohnston who lived in #Derry & who I got to know & meet many times. She's left more than #ShadowsonourSkin on Irish Literature, women's lib & the North. My thoughts with all her family & friends 💚📚x
February 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Sad to hear of the passing of the formidable, brilliant author #JenniferJohnston who lived in #Derry & who I got to know & meet many times. She's left more than #ShadowsonourSkin on Irish Literature, women's lib & the North. My thoughts with all her family & friends 💚📚x
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Congratulations to our Independent Bookshop of the Year Finalists: Island of Ireland 🤩
Bridge Books, Little Acorns Bookstore, Tales for Tadpoles, Tertulia Bookshop and The Secret Bookshelf!
See the full list of finalists 👉 buff.ly/4b0bBbD #BookSky
Bridge Books, Little Acorns Bookstore, Tales for Tadpoles, Tertulia Bookshop and The Secret Bookshelf!
See the full list of finalists 👉 buff.ly/4b0bBbD #BookSky
February 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Congratulations to our Independent Bookshop of the Year Finalists: Island of Ireland 🤩
Bridge Books, Little Acorns Bookstore, Tales for Tadpoles, Tertulia Bookshop and The Secret Bookshelf!
See the full list of finalists 👉 buff.ly/4b0bBbD #BookSky
Bridge Books, Little Acorns Bookstore, Tales for Tadpoles, Tertulia Bookshop and The Secret Bookshelf!
See the full list of finalists 👉 buff.ly/4b0bBbD #BookSky