Pic of The Waiter by Kwan Ann Tan in the shop #indiebookshop #indiepress #indiepublisher #booksky
Waiter! There's a- er, waiter in my maw!*
Surprisingly fun and subtle dystopian near-future-set short novel with 11 endings...
(*Don't worry, the book doesn't feature such 'jokes')
#KwanAnnTan #theemmapress
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"We like short shorts" as the song goes (although you're brave to still be wearing them at this time of year...) Here's some of our fave story collections: uk.bookshop.org/lists/short-...
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'What we're reading at Nairn Books' (pic of some of the team)
Samantha's reading: #Benbecula #GraemeMacraeBurnet #Drystone #KristieDeGaris #TheQueerThingAboutSin #HarryTanner
Stephen's reading #HousOfDayHouseOfNight #OlgaTokarczuk #ForestOfNoise #MosabAbuToha #TheWatermark #SamMills
#TheLibraryCat #AlexHoward #DaybreakInGaza
What are we reading?
What are *you* reading?
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#booksareforeveryone #bookrecs #booksaremagic #BookSky
Pic of 'And Other Stories' by David Quantick with handwritten review: "I pre-ordered this excellent collection after reading just one of the stories. It's that good! Quantick's writing is fun, intelligent and immediately engaging, throughout this entertainingly eclectic mix of bizarre tales. From a single page to considerably longer, these stories from a screenwriter with credits from The Thick of It to rom-com are a fantastic read (& really quite odd!). As a bonus, buying this book supports Into Books - an innovative small indie publisher based in Glasgow. Get yours now!"
What to read, what to read, what to read-
This is what...
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#booksareforeveryone #booksarethebest #BookSky
Pic: "What are we reading at Nairn Books?" with some of the team
Samantha is reading: #AndOtherStories by #DavidQuantick #TheOtherSideOfFear by #DouglasSkelton #WeAreNotMadeOfSugar by AndreiGomezSuarez #TheRiver by CraigASmith
Stephen is reading: #TheManOnTheEndlessStair by #ChrisBarkley #BecomingAComposer by #ErrollynWallen #TheEdgeOfSilence by #NeilAnsell
Starbuck is reading: #ToTheDogs by #LouiseWelch #TheBlackbirdsOfStGiles by #LilaCain
What are we reading at #NairnBooks?
See some of these authors at #NairnFest this week!
www.nairnfestival.co.uk
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#booksareforeveryone #booksarethebest #booksaremagic #BookSky
pic of some of the team
What Samantha's reading: #Drystone #KristieDeGaries #WitchBorne #RachelGrosvenor #TheDyingLight #DanielAubrey #EmilyWildesEncyclopaediaOfFaeries #HeatherFawcett
What Linda's reading: #TheGhostCat #AlexHoward #TippingTheVelvet #SarahWaters #TrainsAndLovers #AlexanderMcCallSmith
What Anthony's reading: #OtterCountry #MiriamDarlington #RaisingHare #ChloeDalton #Shift #HughHowey
What we're reading right now at #NairnBooks
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#booksareforeveryone #booksarethebest #booksaremagic #BookSky
Pic of some of the team around the legend, "What we're reading at Nairn Books"
Some great reads this week (ok, month!)... as ever! (1/3)
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When a mysterious man appears at the gates, all her theories are tested. Brilliant, evocative debut blending a Frankensteinian exploration of scientific hubris, selfhood, and the ethics of medicine, with the actual history of ME. #DisabledWriters #DisabilityWrites #BooksellerRecommends #NewFiction
What we're reading at Nairn Books (pic of a few of the crew)
What Samantha's reading: #Nesting #RoisinODonnell #TheAccidentals #GuadalupeNettel @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social #CleverCrow #ChrisButterworth #OlivieLomenechGill
What Anthony's reading: #Coyote #RobinDeRosario #MutinyOnTheBounty #PeterFitzsimons #FindingHildasay #ChristianLewis
What Linda's reading: #NightSwimmers #RoisinMaguire #WaitForMe #SantaMontefiore
What we're reading (1/2):
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book stack on wall opposite bookshop with bookshop in background, and trees and green fell under stormy grey sky: The Edge of Solitude by Katie Hale, Private Rites by Julia Armfield, Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout, Bright I Burn by Molly Aitken, Emma by Jane Austen.
Katie outside bookshop smiling and holding up bookstack in front of main bookshop window
A second #bookstack of recommended reads from our #IndieBookshopWeek saturday guest bookseller @katiescribbles - this one called 'complicated women'. #ChooseBookshops #BooksellerRecommends #CumbriaCulture #ShopLocal #BooksAreMyBag
Day 28 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 and the prompt is a book that features friendship. These are the books we picked Dubray Books Rathmines The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal Friends Forever by Mary Murphy The Bridge to Always by Lynda Marron Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy The Friendship Fairies go to Paris by Lucy Kennedy & Philip Cullen Sisters of the Moon by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick Bad Panda for Sale! by Sheena Dempsey & Swapna Haddow Comrades: A Lifetime of Friendships by Rosita Boland #friendship #RIWC25 #booksellerrecommends #bookpost #booksky
Day 28 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 and the prompt is a book that features friendship. Our bookseller Aoife was interested in one in particular...The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal
Day 28 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 and the prompt is a book that features friendship
Day 28 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 and the prompt is a book that features friendship.
These are the books we picked in Dubray Books Rathmines - Aoife was interested in one in particular...
#friendship #RIWC25 #booksellerrecommends
#bookpost #booksky
My own choices for Day 27 - a book with a mystery #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 The Cleaner by Mary Watson #mystery #RIWC25 #bookpost #booksellerrecommends
My own choices for Day 27 - a book with a mystery #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 Good Red Herring by Susan Maxwell #mystery #RIWC25 #bookpost #booksellerrecommends
My own choices for Day 27 - a book with a mystery #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25
My own choices for Day 27 - a book with a mystery #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25
The Cleaner by Mary Watson
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Good Red Herring by Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social
#mystery #RIWC25 #bookpost #booksky💙📚 #booksellerrecommends
The books we chose @dubraybooks Rathmines for Day 27 - a book with a mystery for #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 are - Web of Betrayal by Nicola Tallant Something Terrible Happened Last Night by Sam Blake Sparks of Bright Matter by Leanne O'Donnell Wych Elm by Tana French Where They Lie by Claire Coughlan Someone in the Attic by Andrea Mara The Cleaner by Mary Watson The Tower Ghost by Natasha Mac A Bhaird #RIWC25 #mystery #ReadIrishWomen #booksellerrecommends ##bookpost #booksky
The books we chose @dubraybooks Rathmines for Day 27 - a book with a mystery for #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 are #RIWC25 #mystery #ReadIrishWomen #booksellerrecommends ##bookpost #booksky
The books we chose @dubraybooks Rathmines for Day 27 - a book with a mystery for #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 are attached
#RIWC25 #mystery #ReadIrishWomen #booksellerrecommends ##bookpost #booksky💙📚 #SpeirGorm
My own choices for #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 Day 26 - a book with LGBTQ+ themes are these - The Lonely Book by Meg Grehan & Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel #RIWC25 #lgbtqbooks #transfiction #bookpost #booksellerrecommends #booksky
My own choices for #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 Day 26 - a book with LGBTQ+ themes
My own choices for #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 Day 26 - a book with LGBTQ+ themes are these -
The Lonely Book by Meg Grehan
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Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel
#RIWC25 #lgbtqbooks #transfiction #bookpost #booksellerrecommends #booksky💙📚 #speirgorm
Day 25 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 is a book that is at least seven years older than you...there was a lot of head scratching & maths involved when we chose these @dubraybooks Rathmines! The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith An Old Woman's Reflections by Peig Sayers All in the Cooking by Josephine B Marnell, Nora M Breathnach, Ann M Martin & Mor Murnaghan Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Under the Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O'Brien Cocktail Bar by Norah Hoult #sevenup #sevenplus #irishclassics #RIWC25 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 #bookpost #booksellerrecommends
Day 25 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 is a book that is at least seven years older than you...there was a lot of head scratching & maths involved when we chose these @dubraybooks Rathmines!
Day 25 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 is a book that is at least seven years older than you...there was a lot of head scratching & maths involved when we chose these in Dubray Books Rathmines!
#sevenup #irishclassics #RIWC25 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 #booksellerrecommends #booksky💙📚 #speirgorm
Day 24 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book about resisting oppression These are the books we chose in Dubray Books Rathmines Ash + Salt by Sarah Grace A Woman to Blame by Nell McCafferty A Woman in Defence by Karina Molloy The Irish in the Resistance by Clodagh Finn and John Morgan Belonging by Catherine Corless Across the Barricades by Joan Lingard The Making of Mollie by Anna Carey Songlight by Moira Buffini City of Fate by Nicola Pierce What would you pick? #resist #oppression #RIWC25 #booksellerrecommends #bookpost #booksky
Day 24 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book about resisting oppression
Day 24 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book about resisting oppression
These are the books we chose in Dubray Books Rathmines.
What would you pick?
#resist #oppression #RIWC25 #booksellerrecommends #bookpost #booksky💙📚 #speirgorm
My own picks for day 23 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book by an author who writes for different audiences Where I End (novel) & Corpsing (memoir) both by Sophie White #various #booksellerrecommends #RIWC25 #bookpost
My own picks for day 23 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book by an author who writes for different audiences Where I End (novel) & Corpsing (memoir) both by Sophie White #various #booksellerrecommends #RIWC25 #bookpost
My own picks for day 23 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book by an author who writes for different audiences
My own picks for day 23 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book by an author who writes for different audiences
Where I End (novel)
& Corpsing (memoir)
both by Sophie White
#various #booksellerrecommends #RIWC25 #bookpost #booksky💙📚 #SpeirGorm
Day 22 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book with a Spring setting The titles 23 chose @dubraybooks Rathmines are - Nesting by Róisín O'Donnell The Killing Sense by Sam Blake The Wildflowers of Ireland by Zoe Devlin Naturama by Melissa Doran & Michael Fewer Cití Cearc by Patricia Forde & Úna Woods The Wardrobe Department by Elaine Garvey #spring #RIWC25 #booksellerrecommends #bookpost
Day 22 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book with a Spring setting These are the titles we chose in Dubray Books Rathmines #spring #RIWC25 #booksellerrecommends #bookpost
Day 22 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book with a Spring setting
These are the titles we chose in Dubray Books Rathmines
#spring #RIWC25 #booksellerrecommends
#bookpost #booksky💙📚 #speirgorm
Day 20 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 and the prompt is a book with a figure lost to history; these are the books we thought of @dubraybooks Rathmines. A Quiet Tide by Marianne Lee Bold, Brilliant and Bad by Marian Broderick Giant by Judith McQuoid The Weather Girls by Sarah Webb Bad Bridget by Elaine Farrell & Leanne McCormick Finding Mangan by Bridget Hourican Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue Grace O'Malley by Anne Chambers Also, Happy Easter to everyone - may your day be full of sweetness & joy! #RIWC25 #losthistory #hiddenfigures #booksellerrecommends #booksky #bookpost
Day 20 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 and the prompt is a book with a figure lost to history; these are the books we thought of @dubraybooks Rathmines.
Day 20 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 and the prompt is a book with a figure lost to history; these are the books we thought of @dubraybooks Rathmines
#RIWC25 #losthistory #hiddenfigures #booksellerrecommends #booksky💙📚 #bookpost #SpéirG0irm
My own choices for Day 17 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book that deals with separation - are these two Mary Lavelle by Kate O'Brien & The List of Real Things by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald Both wonderful writers with strong associations with Limerick. #RIWC25 separation
My own choices for Day 17 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book that deals with separation - are these
My own choices for Day 17 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book that deals with separation - are these two
Mary Lavelle by Kate O'Brien
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The List of Real Things by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
#RIWC25 #separation #booksellerrecommends #booksky 💙📚 #SpéirG0irm
Day 26 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 and the prompt is a book with different modes of transport These are the titles we chose in Dubray Books Rathmines Nesting by Róisín O'Donnell Paris Express by Emma Donoghue No One Saw a Thing by Andrea Mara Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff Ireland in Numbers by Jackie McCann & Dermot Flynn Míp by Maire Zepf & Paddy Donnelly Full Tilt: Ireland to India on a Bicycle by Dervla Murphy Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë What books did you choo-choo-choose? #RIWC25 #transport #ReadIrishWomen #booksellerrecommends #bookpost #booksky
Day 26 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 and the prompt is a book with different modes of transport
Day 26 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 and the prompt is a book with different modes of transport
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These are the titles we chose in Dubray Books Rathmines
What books did you choo-choo-choose?
#RIWC25 #transport #ReadIrishWomen #booksellerrecommends #bookpost #SpéirG0irm #booksky 💙📚
My own choices for Day 14 - a book with a protagonist under 18 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 Foster by Claire Keegan Spare prose with not a word out of place - close to a perfect novella & The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell Sumptuous, sensuous and tension-packed as a teenage bride questions her husbands motives in 16th century Tuscany
Day 14 - a book with a protagonist under 18 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25
My own choices for Day 14 - a book with a protagonist under 18 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25
Foster by Claire Keegan
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The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
#youngprotagonist ##RIWC25 #bookpost #booksellerrecommends #booksky 💙📚 #SpéirG0irm
For day 14 of #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book with a protagonist under 18 - the booksellers in Dubray Books Rathmines chose these titles - Under the Hawthorn Sky by Marita Conlon-McKenna Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit de Waal Wonder by Emma Donoghue Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey Poor by Katriona O'Sullivan Matched Ip by Jenny Ireland Jess Gets Her Wings by Lucy Kennedy & Philip Cullen Foster by Claire Keegan #youngprotagonist #RIWC25 #ReadIrishWomen #booksellerrecommends #bookpost
Day 14 #RIWC25 a book with a protagonist under 18
For day 14 of #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book with a protagonist under 18 - the booksellers in Dubray Books Rathmines chose these titles
#youngprotagonist #RIWC25 #ReadIrishWomen #booksellerrecommends #bookpost #booksky 💙📚 #SpéirG0irm
Day 13 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book by a woman of colour/ethnic minority/diaspora These are the titles we chose in Dubray Books Rathmines Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai The Cleaner by Mary Watson The Inheritance by Cauvery Madhavan Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar This Hostel Life by Melatu Uche Okorie Unsettled by Rosaleen McDonagh #RIWC25 #WOC #EthnicMinority #diaspora #booksellerrecommends #booksky #bookpost
Day 13 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book by a woman of colour/ethnic minority/diaspora
Day 13 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a book by a woman of colour/ethnic minority/diaspora
These are the titles we chose in Dubray Books Rathmines
#WOC #EthnicMinority #diaspora #booksellerrecommends #booksky #bookpost #SpéirG0irm
Maeve Binchy's fiction is rightly celebrated as layered, warm and comforting books, but her non-fiction is equally as good. Maeve's Binchy: From Maeve Binchy's columns in the Irish Times are short missives from a young Irish woman living in London. Often humorous, sometimes poignant, but always deeply humane, they are a treasure.
First Term at Fernside by Sheena Wilkinson is a boarding school story set in Belfast in the 1930s. For anyone who is a fan of Malory Towers or the Chalet School series, this is a delight; it's also great to introduce middle grade readers to this genre with a new publication.
Day 12 #RIWC25 - A cosy read
Catching up on my own picks for Day 12 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 - a cosy read
Maeve's Binchy: From Maeve Binchy's columns in the Irish Times
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First Term at Fernside by Sheena Wilkinson
#cosyreads #RIWC25 #booksellerrecommends #booksky 💙📚 #SpéirG0irm
Day 12 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 A cosy read Here are the books we chose @dubraybooks Rathmines Quentins by Maeve Binchy The Importance of Being Aisling by Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen Mrs Hart's Marriage Bureau by Sheena Wilkinson A Place Called Home by Alice Taylor Snow Pony Express by Nina Carbery Stockingopolis by Tatyana Feeney Moving On by Roisín Meaney #RIWC25 #cosyreads #booksellerrecommends #bookpost
Day 12 #RIWC25- a cosy read
Day 12 #ReadIrishWomenChallenge25 A cosy read
Here are the books we chose Dubray Books Rathmines
#RIWC25 #cosyreads #booksellerrecommends #booksky 💙📚 #SpéirG0irm
A hand holds up a book with the title 'The Science of Last Things'.
Pick of the day is a beauty by Ellen Wayland Smith. #booksky #booksellerpick #booksellerrecommends @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social
@ktastrof.bsky.social @argylleditions.bsky.social @nalohop.bsky.social
#scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #africanfuturism #africanjujuism #imaginaire #speclit #afrofuturism #afrofantasy #sciencefictionfrançaise #montreal #booksellerrecommends #booksellersfavourite
Today's Book Talk titles
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10am Central on the Skylark Bookshop FB and Instagram pages
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#thesnowbirds #memorialdays #Junie #thisisalovestory
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@christinaclancyauthor @ozbrooks100 @erincrosbyeckstine @jessicasoffer
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#blurbyourenthusiasm #booktalk #bookrecs #booksellerrecommends #mustread #books
😃 Our first What We’re Reading catch-up of 2025!
What have you been reading this month? Any recommendations? 📚
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