This week is Irish Book Week, celebrating Irish authors, illustrators, publishers, and bookshops, so we thought we’d celebrate by asking some of the Irish Book Week Ambassadors a couple of …
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Small Things Like These by Irish author Claire Keegan is one of the six-strong shortlisted books for the Booker Prize 2022. There are various reasons as to why this belongs …
After some discussion of mythology, legend, folklore and fairytale – retellings, journeys, explorations – my mind inevitably turns to the next iteration of these tales: fiction influenced by or based …
Manchán Magan’s 2020 bestseller, “Thirty-Two Words for Field”, is a treasure trove of almost-forgotten Irish words, place names, and traditions. His new book, Listen to the Land Speak, will be …
I wrote the outline for my first novel, There’s Been A Little Incident on a flight from Dublin to London where I was living at the time. I had been circling the themes of …
We wanted to dedicate this blog to sharing Dubray’s journey to becoming a more sustainable business. In a paper-based industry, there is a lot for us to explore and understand. …
While the Soviet Union was governed by a single communist party for sixty-nine years, it was the Stalinist era spanning 1924 to 1953 that were the most memorably brutal. Nobody …
My new book, Wild and Wonderful, is, in a way, a prequel to Our Wild World, which was published last year, and which explained how our natural world works. Wild …
That’s just what translation is, I think. That’s all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they’re trying to say. …
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