Sheila O'Reilly

Bailliere Tindall ended up being part of WB Saunders, offices in Camden Town and warehouse in Eastbourne. Published the biggest Nurse's dictionary in the UK.

Get your calendars – time for our weekly events thread. First up, join Parade's End Books and Jess Kid on Thursday 27 March, as they celebrate the publication of Jess’s new book, Murder at Gulls Nest.

paradesendbooks.co.uk/product/ticket-for-evening-with-author-jess-kidd

This is a fun list! We are delighted to see Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones in the top 3! Also from Tramp Press is Doireann ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat and two novels by Sara Baume! Not bad for a very small independent publisher.

Isn't this just brilliant.

New York Public Library - Book of the Day.

Ghost Mountain by @ronanhession.bsky.social

@nybooks.com
@thebookseller.com
@nlireland.bsky.social
@booksireland.bsky.social

Stop linking to Amazon already! Folks, the time has come to stop linking to Amazon. For good. If you’re reading this site, you likely already knew this in your heart. And I’m actually not here to give you the litany o…

Why it’s the right time to stop linking to your book on Amazon.

A photo of book called birding on a green background announcing that it has been longlisted for The Women’s Prize for fiction. This has been a strange experience to type tbh

If you are surprised, you are not as surprised as I am, I promise

Ending the night with this.
*Get your hankies*
A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.

A hardback edition of May All Your Skies Be Blue lying on some white bedsheets next to a hand holding a white mug containing a milky coffee.

'My absolute favourite way to listen to music is to watch live performances on YouTube.'

Start your weekend with Fíona Scarlett's playlist for May All Your Skies Be Blue 🎶

www.faber.co.uk/journal/fabe...

Children's Books mailing list at Kennys

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A mid-week stack of new titles

Debbie Godsell’s History Lesson (a round tower made from church kneelers and more) and her Ancestors series of prints visible through Uillinn windows. Show runs until 5 April. westcorkartscentre.com/event/flail-...

If you fancy chasing a leprechaun on Paddy's Day blackrock.ie/chase/

That's fantastic news 👏👏

We're finalists!

@kennysbookshop.bsky.social
Leaf & Bower, Ballincollig, Cork
Vibes & Scribes, Cork city (great for art books!)
Bookstór, Kinsale, Co. Cork
Liber, Sligo Town
@omahonysbooks.bsky.social Limerick City
Livraria Lello, Porto
@dauntbookspub.bsky.social London
@shakespeareandcompany.com Paris

An interior view of the Book Corner bookshop, with brightly lit white shelves of books to the sides, looking through an archway surrounded by tree murals, towards more shelves and tables of books. There is a beautiful wooden floor and sage green door, and it looks very inviting.

An interior shot of Waterstones in Bradford, a soaring hammer beamed ceiling with arched windows and ornate carving in the wood. Beneath, between the stone pillars, are tall bookshelves abs tables of books under warm lantern lights. A person wearing a bright red dress with long dark hair stands reading at the bottom of the shot.

The small but mighty Book Corner (@bookcornerhx.bsky.social) in the beautiful and historic Piece Hall in Halifax is always worth a visit. As is Waterstones in Bradford, located in the stunning old Wool Exchange building.

Some Irish recommendations
@chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
@thebookshopie.bsky.social

New novel The Accidental Immigrants published by Yorkshire independent publisher Bluemoose Books Given geo-political global events of recent years, the world today can sometimes feel like a complex and troubling place. With war and environmental and other issues contributing to large numbers of p...

Thanks again to Yvette Huddleston for her interview with me in the Yorkshire Post - now online

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-cul...

@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

Image of book covers in a grid. The most prominent are: Queen James by Gareth Russell, Coorie Doon by Jackie Kay & Jill Calder, Alive in a Merciful Country by A. L. Kennedy, Fierce Salvage by Ryan Vance & Michael Lee Richardson, and Hermit by Chris McQueer.

It's the first BfS issue of 2025! Some cracking titles coming out of Scotland from Jan - Mar!

Read the issue: booksfromscotland.com/issue/get-set/

Thanks to our pals @saraband-books.bsky.social @wildfirebooks.bsky.social @404ink.bsky.social @leamington.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk & more!

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

A professor was lecturing to his English class: “In English, a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, a double negative is still a negative. However, there's no language where in a double positive can form a negative.”

A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”

Thanks to @privateeyenews.bsky.social for drawing our attention to this disgraceful fact.

#PetText

For more info on the situation with challenged and banned books in the U.S., follow the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social and check out: www.ala.org/bbooks

Absolutely delighted to (finally) reveal I had the pleasure of creating images for this amazing film.
I made a right old mess & cannot wait for you to see it on screens soon…

THE THING WITH FEATHERS directed by Dylan Southern, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, adapted from Max Porter’s superb novel.

tantalisingly close to our 8000th submission @tramppress.bsky.social

Andrew O’Hagan in conversation with Wendy Erskine - Ennis Book Club Festival In his ambitious novel, Caledonian Road, Andrew O’Hagan takes us on a picaresque journey through a city and a life. His protagonist, Campbell Flynn, is about to be confronted by the mistakes of his pa...

The Ennis Book Club Festival has released their schedule of events🧵

Andrew O’Hagan in conversation with @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
ennisbookclubfestival.com/Event_slug/a...

One reason you might want to publish traditionally is because it makes it easier for your book to get into bookshops. Publishers have sales teams, we have relationships with bookshops and booksellers.

Screenshot of an email that says: Hello ! I just wanted to say I popped in yesterday and bought 2 books on your recommendation! And I have not been able to put “The Appeal” down ! It’s so clever and addictive ! So much for having it for my commute it will be finished today !

Look, I know I'm not saving lives or anything, but getting emails like this and knowing I've made someone's day a bit better, is really cool.

Being a bookseller is the best job.