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@irishbookawards.bsky.social 📚💚

Wishing the very best of luck & love to all the fab authors, books, bookshops & publishers in tonight's #AnPostIrishBookAwards I’ll be tuning in via live stream (between book events in #Derry at same time) & so excited - all are winners in my book anyway!💚📚🥳🏆 #APIBA #StoriesMakeUs #IrishBookshops

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

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

I really can't say as it's a tough one this year - for me no clear winner. Yet. Have not read all the books... 📚😉

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 ⚽️📚🏆

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.

For your amusement… ahead of event in award-winning Little Acorns Bookshop in Derry tonight 🙂

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002fwfp

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

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📚💚🎶

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.

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

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

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

📚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

Honoured to invite musician & author #KeithDonald to sign copies of his book #MusicAndMayhem published by @lilliputpress.bsky.social & further add his name to the #LegenDerryWritersChair & now visible beside Irish authors & journalists #FrankConnolly & the late nation-loved #TommyGorman 📚💚4/4

From road trips to near-deaths, snapshots to flashbacks; music as therapy & strength of adversity - #KeithDonald told all through playing ukulele, recorder, clarinet & his voice. Raw, rich & rare. Very special @lilliputpress.bsky.social 💚📚3/4p

Introduced by Pearse from #Derry's @nervecentreni.bsky.social
we traced & travelled along with #KeithDonald as he shared tough truths, the power of music, friendship & reality. Pictured an audience in awe. #MusicandMayhem @lilliputpress.bsky.social 📚💚2/4

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

More little happy bunnies in @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social on #EasterMonday in #Derry 🐣💚📚

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 💚🎺 🥂📚

Léigh is Pléigh // Irish Book Group - #GeansaitheMóra le #GearóidínNicCárthaighin with #CultúrlannUíChanáin
Sat 5 March 1pm. #Doire #Derry All welcome. Free admission. Light refreshments 📚💚

More info on award-winning poet #MartinMalone's & his latest publication #SONNETSFORMYMOTHERASLEAR published by #MariscatPress.
Book launch Fri 28 March 7pm in @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social #Derry 📚2/2

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

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!📚💚

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! 📚💚🖨️

Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.

Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025