We are over half way through the Read Irish Women Challenge 2022 and it has been wonderful to behold the enthusiasm and response on social media. Thank you to everyone who has joined the discussion and shared their recommendations and passion for the books they have read and loved by Irish women. This blog hands the recommendation reins over to some of the writers we have been discussing in the #ReadIrishWomenChallenge22. Read on to discover the books chosen by Sinéad …
Author: Karina Clifford
→Karina has been a bookworm forever and her formative childhood reads were The Bookshop on the Quay by Patricia Lynch and Alice Through the Looking Glass By Lewis Carroll, which may or may not explain a great deal...
Natural habitat is a bookshop, happily enough; may also be found writing about books on Instagram @bookaneer808.
#ReadIrishWomenChallenge22 #RIWC22 It’s April so I’m back once again with the Read Irish Women Challenge – the month where we celebrate outstanding books by Irish women. Starting on April 1st, …
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I began the #ReadIrishWomenChallenge back in April 2019 as a way to spotlight great work by Irish female authors, and to start a conversation about their writing. Now that it’s …
Halfway into my week’s holiday at the end of March, our bookshops closed due to Covid-19. It was unwelcome but not unexpected news. The stress which had made concentrating on …
Now that we’re all housebound, what we need is a book that will whisk us off to someplace else. Fancy travelling to Italy? Donna Leon‘s series of crime novels set …
What does a bookseller do when they are not in their natural habitat, the bookshop? Well, this bookseller spends a large chunk of their time off reading. The only downside …
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