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London pals! Join Gethan Dick at Libreria bookshop to discuss her haunting debut (and one of Libreria’s Best Books of 2025) Water in the Desert Fire in the Night: 19 Feb, 6:30pm 65 Hanbury Street. TICKETS HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-af...

A 2026 Irish Book Preview Featuring titles that are neither from 2026, nor Irish.

Check out 'A 2026 Irish Book Preview' on the Mining the Dalkey Archive podcast! (Some swear words, in case you're listening at work/around your children).

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Great list!

A 2026 Irish Book Preview Podcast Episode · Mining the Dalkey Archive Podcast · 26/01/2026 · 1h 26m

This is fun - some nice recommendations from @chadwpost.bsky.social, and some love for @tramppress.bsky.social

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It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

This could be about so many things right now

Éire to Everywhere: Stories Without Borders with Gethan Dick - EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin | Official Site An Evening with Gethan Dick: Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night Join debut novelist Gethan Dick at EPIC for an evening of conversation, creativity, and storytelling as part of our Éire to Everywhe...

One of the many great things about Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night is how Gethan Dick imagines that in a post-apocalyptic world people will still have a sense of humour. Join us at CHQ at 5.30pm this evening (tues 20th) to hear Gethan read and speak about it!

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Éire to Everywhere: Stories Without Borders with Gethan Dick - EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin | Official Site An Evening with Gethan Dick: Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night Join debut novelist Gethan Dick at EPIC for an evening of conversation, creativity, and storytelling as part of our Éire to Everywhe...

Take a break from watching the world ending and come listen to the brilliant Gethan Dick at EPIC! 5:30 this evening epicchq.com/event/eire-t... @tramppress.bsky.social #WITDFITN

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

One of the very best SF novels I have read since 1963, and as you can imagine, I’ve read MANY.

This book is utterly amazing, and genuinely original.

Thank you!

Screenshot of the section of the blogpost where Jack talks about Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, which you can read at the link

'The Book That Changed My Mind': our dear arachnophobe Jack Fennell @jfennellauthor.bsky.social, author of A Brilliant Void, It Rose Up, and Your Own Dark Shadow, on Children of Time by Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night

Buy the paperback:
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or ebook:
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Image is of the book cover of Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night by Gethan Dick. Headline reads 'Shortlisted for the 2026 Kate O'Brien Award'

We are thrilled to reveal that Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night by Gethan Dick has been shortlisted for the 2026 Kate O’Brien Award! The shortlisted writers will be talking about their books at the Festival on Sunday 1st March at 11:15am in the Belltable, Limerick. We hope to see you there!

On screen-time-menace grifters.

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This link works for me.
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Tramp Press author Maggie Armstrong is on RTE Radio 1 now talking about The Gadfly with David McCullagh, tune in here: www.rte.ie/radio/watch-...

Mike McCormack has a short story where Ireland and Norway are at war and a character remarks that "the mere idea that Ireland and Norway could be at war would have been ridiculous a few years ago" and I think about that all the time.

This is a fabulous and really enjoyable series so far, I highly recommend listening. Some incredible women whose stories and legacies haven't been acknowledged or remembered in Ireland as they should.

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

Also @leonaforde1.bsky.social's Milly McCarthy books are a massive hit with my seven year-old. They include hijinks, shenanigans and pleidhcíocht ❤️

There are loads of gorgeous children's books by @futafata.bsky.social and one of our faves is Frog Sa Spéir, which comes with a QR code that plays an audio version for parents who might want help with pronunciation

Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.

Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.

I loved when we all watched University Challenge together

Ok the Pope wins on a technicality