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Sheila O'Reilly
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Founder @dinglelit Mentor indie bookshops, works for Booksellers Association UK & Ireland + Bookselling Ireland + EIBF. Loves reading, championing bookshops and authors.
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faberbooks.bsky.social
Get your calendars – time for our weekly events thread. First up, join Parade's End Books and Jess Kid on Thursday 27 March, as they celebrate the publication of Jess’s new book, Murder at Gulls Nest.

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March 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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tramppress.bsky.social
This is a fun list! We are delighted to see Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones in the top 3! Also from Tramp Press is Doireann ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat and two novels by Sara Baume! Not bad for a very small independent publisher.
March 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Isn't this just brilliant.

New York Public Library - Book of the Day.

Ghost Mountain by @ronanhession.bsky.social

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@booksireland.bsky.social
March 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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literaryhub.bsky.social
Why it’s the right time to stop linking to your book on Amazon.
Stop linking to Amazon already!
Folks, the time has come to stop linking to Amazon. For good. If you’re reading this site, you likely already knew this in your heart. And I’m actually not here to give you the litany o…
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March 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
If you are surprised, you are not as surprised as I am, I promise
A photo of book called birding on a green background announcing that it has been longlisted for The Women’s Prize for fiction. This has been a strange experience to type tbh
March 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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kamalanation.bsky.social
Ending the night with this.
*Get your hankies*
A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
March 1, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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faberbooks.bsky.social
'My absolute favourite way to listen to music is to watch live performances on YouTube.'

Start your weekend with Fíona Scarlett's playlist for May All Your Skies Be Blue 🎶

www.faber.co.uk/journal/fabe...
A hardback edition of May All Your Skies Be Blue lying on some white bedsheets next to a hand holding a white mug containing a milky coffee.
March 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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NEW! We have a new Kennys newsletter dedicated to all things children's books - with information on new and upcoming kids books, special offers, special editions and lots more.
It takes less than a minute to subscribe if you're interested, here: www.kennys.ie/subscribe-ch...
Children's Books mailing list at Kennys
February 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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ravenbooks.bsky.social
A mid-week stack of new titles
February 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Debbie Godsell’s History Lesson (a round tower made from church kneelers and more) and her Ancestors series of prints visible through Uillinn windows. Show runs until 5 April. westcorkartscentre.com/event/flail-...
View of the gallery with its Corten steel surface and art visible through windows. Blue sky.
February 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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If you fancy chasing a leprechaun on Paddy's Day blackrock.ie/chase/
February 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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404ink.bsky.social
We're finalists!
thebookseller.com The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Feb 19
Congratulations to our Small Press of the Year Finalists: Scotland 🤩

The Wee Book Company, 404 Ink, Rymour Books, Scotland Street Press and Charco Press! #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards
February 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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@kennysbookshop.bsky.social
Leaf & Bower, Ballincollig, Cork
Vibes & Scribes, Cork city (great for art books!)
Bookstór, Kinsale, Co. Cork
Liber, Sligo Town
@omahonysbooks.bsky.social Limerick City
Livraria Lello, Porto
@dauntbookspub.bsky.social London
@shakespeareandcompany.com Paris
February 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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harrietcannon.bsky.social
The small but mighty Book Corner (@bookcornerhx.bsky.social) in the beautiful and historic Piece Hall in Halifax is always worth a visit. As is Waterstones in Bradford, located in the stunning old Wool Exchange building.
An interior view of the Book Corner bookshop, with brightly lit white shelves of books to the sides, looking through an archway surrounded by tree murals, towards more shelves and tables of books. There is a beautiful wooden floor and sage green door, and it looks very inviting. An interior shot of Waterstones in Bradford, a soaring hammer beamed ceiling with arched windows and ornate carving in the wood. Beneath, between the stone pillars, are tall bookshelves abs tables of books under warm lantern lights. A person wearing a bright red dress with long dark hair stands reading at the bottom of the shot.
February 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Some Irish recommendations
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February 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Thanks again to Yvette Huddleston for her interview with me in the Yorkshire Post - now online

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-cul...

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New novel The Accidental Immigrants published by Yorkshire independent publisher Bluemoose Books
Given geo-political global events of recent years, the world today can sometimes feel like a complex and troubling place. With war and environmental and other issues contributing to large numbers of p...
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January 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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booksfromscotland.bsky.social
It's the first BfS issue of 2025! Some cracking titles coming out of Scotland from Jan - Mar!

Read the issue: booksfromscotland.com/issue/get-set/

Thanks to our pals @saraband-books.bsky.social @wildfirebooks.bsky.social @404ink.bsky.social @leamington.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk & more!
Image of book covers in a grid. The most prominent are: Queen James by Gareth Russell, Coorie Doon by Jackie Kay & Jill Calder, Alive in a Merciful Country by A. L. Kennedy, Fierce Salvage by Ryan Vance & Michael Lee Richardson, and Hermit by Chris McQueer.
January 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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A professor was lecturing to his English class: “In English, a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, a double negative is still a negative. However, there's no language where in a double positive can form a negative.”

A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”
January 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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petshopboys.co.uk
Thanks to @privateeyenews.bsky.social for drawing our attention to this disgraceful fact.

#PetText
January 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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ravenbooks.bsky.social
For more info on the situation with challenged and banned books in the U.S., follow the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social and check out: www.ala.org/bbooks
January 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Absolutely delighted to (finally) reveal I had the pleasure of creating images for this amazing film.
I made a right old mess & cannot wait for you to see it on screens soon…

THE THING WITH FEATHERS directed by Dylan Southern, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, adapted from Max Porter’s superb novel.
lucysullivan.bsky.social Lucy Sullivan @lucysullivan.bsky.social · Dec 11
Ooo! Max Porter’s acclaimed novel has been adapted for film!
With Benedict Cumberbatch!
Directed by Dylan Southern!
Premiering at Sundance!

And is that carbon sheets on his drawing board?…
🧐💭
Screenshot of Max Porter’s Instagram post for the Sundance premiere of THE THING WITH FEATHERS - Directed by Dylan Southern & starring Benedict Cumberbatch
December 12, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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tantalisingly close to our 8000th submission @tramppress.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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ravenbooks.bsky.social
The Ennis Book Club Festival has released their schedule of events🧵

Andrew O’Hagan in conversation with @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
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Andrew O’Hagan in conversation with Wendy Erskine - Ennis Book Club Festival
In his ambitious novel, Caledonian Road, Andrew O’Hagan takes us on a picaresque journey through a city and a life. His protagonist, Campbell Flynn, is about to be confronted by the mistakes of his pa...
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December 10, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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canongate.co.uk
One reason you might want to publish traditionally is because it makes it easier for your book to get into bookshops. Publishers have sales teams, we have relationships with bookshops and booksellers.
November 26, 2024 at 10:44 PM