When I started working for Dubray, my friends encouraged me to set up a book club. Apparently I was now “an expert” (their words, not mine) in all things literary. It turns out that flattery can get you places, sometimes. In this case, it got my friends to my kitchen table for mugs of tea and home-baked goodies. Most book club meetings revolve around a single book that you discuss together. I’m sure this works for other people, but it …
Month: August 2019
The World Cup is approaching fast — Schmidt is about to get real! In the unlikely event that I don’t make the squad as a back-up for Johnny Sexton, I’m …
In this guest post, author Niall Williams discusses the inspiration for his new novel, This Is Happiness. I am not the kind of writer who works out in advance what …
I don’t recall when I first started paying attention to the names of translators. Maybe it was when I read Blindness, by José Saramago. Saramago strips punctuation to commas and …
If you are a fan of The Heart’s Invisible Furies, A Little Life, or even Harry Potter, you will love The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. That means that pretty much …
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 …
Paperbacks have been around Europe since the 17th century but initially they were expensive and available only to the few. They became more widely accessible with the invention of the …
If you’re anything like me, you must be very excited about all the witchy Irish YA books that 2019 has brought. But with so many tempting choices, where to begin? …
At the end of my last post, I was gearing up for my Camino journey, boots and guidebooks organised, and mind set firmly on putting one foot in front of …
In our first post from a guest author, E. M. Reapy discusses the modern-day issues that inspired her second novel, Skin, available in shops now. I was inspired to write …
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