John McGahern Book Prize shortlist revealed Novels by Ferdia Lennon, Alan Murrin, Sinéad Gleeson and Anna Fitzgerald selected

Anna Fitzgerald was recently shortlisted for the John McGahern Book Prize for her beautiful debut novel Girl In The Making. Anna will be reading in #BantryBookshop at 11.30 today. #FreeEvent
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Join Cauvery Madhavan, author of The Inheritance, this Saturday at #BantryBookshop as part of West Cork Literary Festival - info on the free event below. 🍀📗
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My favourite room: Sisters Kate and Marney pooled their resources to set up a home and a bookshop together in Bantry as their second act We all tend to be creatures of habit and when Kate Smyth and her sister, Marney Smyth Fischer, get out the ware for a cuppa in their gorgeous former farmhouse, they each have their own mug. Both mugs ...

Hurrah for the fabulous #BantryBookshop. It gives us joy to see Kate, Marney and of course Stanley in @independent.ie. Bookshops are the heart of a town and Bantry Bookshop will be selling festival books all year, all week and at all events
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The Inheritance by Cauvery Madhavan - read an extract It's 1986 and 29-year-old Marlo O'Sullivan of London-Irish stock has just found out that his sister is his mother. To steady his life, he moves to Glengarriff, to a cottage he has inherited, in the st...

We love this novel by our West Cork neighbour @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social. Cauvery will be chatting about The Inheritance in #BantryBookshop on Sat 12 July at 11.30am as part of WCLF. #FreeEvent @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social
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Come West The Road With Me West Cork Reading Tour by Cónal Creedon. "Creedon's words are enough to create a world that is at once comic and dramatic, poctic and musical" NEW YORK TIMES. 29 May Guest of The Oars, White Horse Inn 8pm Ballincollig. 5 June Guest of John Spillane, de Barra's 9pm Clonakilty. 6 June Inanna Rare Books, Old Masonic Hall 7pm Skibbereen. 7 JuneThe Working Artists' Studio 2.00pm Ballydehob. 13 June 'The Bantry Bookshop 12pm Bantry. 14 June Sarah Walker Gallery 1pm Castletownbere. 27 June With Denis Lehane, Macroom Mart 6.30pm Macroom.

Author @conalcreedon.bsky.social is going on a #WestCork Reading Tour and will be in #BantryBookshop on 13 June (plus Ballincollig, Clonakilty, Skibbereen, Ballydehob, Castletownbere and Macroom along the way)

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