The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin

Bejaysus, this is a nicer photo of #GutterDreamTeam Sarah and Sheila!

We are in Mansion House this weekend for Dublin Festival of History. Sarah and Sheila at the ready, Marta is lurking in dark corners, plenty of events still to come - join us.

Photo of the two books mentioned in post along with a gutterbookshop bookmark

A trip to #Dublin brings new treasures! W/ thanks to my beloved @gutterbookshop.bsky.social I finally have @damianbarr.bsky.social 's wonderful new novel #TheTwoRoberts + a proof of #PatrickGale 's forthcoming #LoveLane (out March '26). I'm a very happy Bob today! #LGBTQBooks #gaylovestories

Jessica Traynor reads from her new collection, New Arcana - Books Ireland Jessica Traynor reads from her new collection, New Arcana (Bloodaxe).

🌟Jessica Traynor reads from her forthcoming collection New Arcana (Bloodaxe Books) over on Books Ireland today!🌟

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🔥New Arcana launches 02 October @gutterbookshop.bsky.social 🔥

@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social

Selfie of Bob & Marta Gutter Bookshop grinning outside in front of a #Hogbert picturebook window.

Photo of the bookstall with staff holding card machines in the air to get a phone signal

Photo of Shorelines proof plus a #Loki keyring & a 'I Love My Local Bookshop' from Cecelia Ahern.

When in #Dublin - popped into @childrensbooksireland.ie #CBIconf25 & @gutterbookshop.bsky.social let me sell a book! Great catch-up chats with lovely people incl. @louiestowell.bsky.social & @littleislandbooks.bsky.social & got a proof of @rurooie.bsky.social 's debut #YA novel #shorelines ! #BobWin

Me and @unawrites.bsky.social off on our signing tour of Dublin! Bookshops beware - we're coming at ya! 📚📚📚 #ElloraMcGeeTraineeBanshee

Thanks to Eason's and @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social for the warm welcome... Off to @gutterbookshop.bsky.social next!

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A cardboard box filled with shredded cardboard, used as packing material to protect the box's proper contents - copies of Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee, written by Sinéad O'Hart and illustrated by Úna Woods. Two copies are lying face-up on top of the box and contents.

Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee's first adventure, The New School, is out NOW and available wherever you get your books (inc @dubraybooks.bsky.social @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social and @gutterbookshop.bsky.social)! If you've met Ellora and friends, PLEASE leave a review somewhere - it all helps! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

So, apparently Marta did organise a signed Ozzy book for her dad Marek, back in Hughes & Hughes days of 2009.
Things you forget...

🚨Launch details for New Arcana!🚨

I'll be in Galway, Dublin, Belfast & online. Please do come along if you can, & spread the word.
🔮✨️🐍🃏

@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @gutterbookshop.bsky.social

Fancy joining #TheGutterTeam?
We are hiring! 📚💚
• Bookseller positions available across Temple Bar & Dalkey shops
• 2-4 days a week
• 1-2 years bookselling experience essential
• email CV & cover letter to info@gutterbookshop.com by 24th August 2025.

#jobfairy #gutterteamdreamteam #mustlovedogs

Had a great time signing my book in the new PAPERBACK version at @gutterbookshop.bsky.social #Dublin this week! Thanks to Cian for the warm reception & taking my photo & thanks to Marta for keeping her in stock! 5 signed copies to pick up while you can! St Brigid & Other Amazing Irish Women!

Few snaps from the shop today, such a lovely summer's day.

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

What a way to end the week. €5000 going straight to @medicalaidpal.bsky.social

I'll be honest, I had big hopes to reach this goal. But it's the first time either myself or @sineadohart.bsky.social have run a fundraiser like this, so I had no idea how it'd go.

The first thing I did when I finished reading The Benefactors is read it all over again. Partly I didn't want to let go of the characters, partly I was trying to figure out how @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social did this. So powerful, so original, and so gripping. Lines from it keep coming back to me.

A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

Take a moment at Sunrise.
Wednesday, 5.57am

All authors are now required to bring their pets to signings.

When Marta visits.

Equally impressed here too. Considering gets lost on the way to the UK this is quite an achievement. Thank you 💚📚

A book of essays titled Nothing Compares to You: What Sinéad O’Connor Means to Us, edited by Sonya Huber and Martha Baynes, with a foreword by Neko Case. Hard back book with black and white photo of Sinéad holding a microphone on a black background.

Very excited to dig into this!! And super impressed with how quickly @gutterbookshop.bsky.social got it to me in rural Alaska!

The feet of the heron,
under those bamboo stems,
hold the blue body,
the great beak

above the shallows
of the pond.
Who could guess
their patience?

from Many Miles by Mary Oliver

GUTTER BOOKS❤️📚… With a short layover in Dublin🇮🇪, I’m glad we had time to check out this delightful bookshop.

@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
#childrensbooks

That's @samreadbookseller.bsky.social if you're in the UK. And why not, it's @gutterbookshop.bsky.social if you're in Ireland

Team Gutter is still pretty proud of that gift.

A bunch of lovely booky peeps marching with Children's Books Ireland at Dublin Pride, taken by Marta from Gutter Books

Three O'Brien Press authors during Dublin Pride, all featured on the OBP rainbow stack of queer kids books they published. L-R Jarlath Gregory, Amy Clarkin & Helen Corcoran

Me on the Dublin Pride march with Children's Books Ireland I borrowed teal heart shades

A group of dancers wearing spangly leotards and feathered headdress stand in a Georgian doorway at Dublin Pride. They were behind us for the whole march, so energetic & positive!

What a wonderful Dublin Pride weekend! 🏳️‍🌈
On the march yesterday with Children's Books Ireland to help promote
#ReadWithPride with wonderful booky people, among them -
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
@ravenbooks.bsky.social
@amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social
@hcor.bsky.social
#TransRightsAreHumanRights💙🩷🤍

Thank you to @childrensbooksireland.ie for adding Marta last minute to their #Pride assembly 🌈💚