Don’t miss the award winning Martina Devlin in conversation with Cian Byrne this Wednesday at the Maybooth Bookshop 🎉 This is a brilliant opportunity to hear Martina chat all things Glorious Monsters, her latest spellbinding novel about the Shelley’s!
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🥕 A GIFT HORSE 👁: 2 minutes with... Niamh Mac Cabe - Dublin Book Festival share.google/QTS8uMlBfnKk... @dublinbookfest.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social
2 minutes with... Niamh Mac Cabe - Dublin Book Festival
Dublin Book Festival has a quick catch-up with author Niamh Mac Cabe around her new short story collection, Four Night Seas
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"Peace is fragile. It too is a sort of dream, and it depends on that dream being held in common. Such dreams can be unsettled." www.popmatters.com/ciaran-carso... @lilliputpress.bsky.social
The Troubles Haunt in Ciaran Carson's Posthumous 'X+Y=K' » PopMatters
Part memoir, part ghost story, part weird fiction, the central motif in Ciaran Carson’s X+Y=K is the Troubles' recurrence in memories and dreams.
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Shaping up very well. Very fond of Ciaran Carson's prose. Good job Lilliput Press. @lilliputpress.bsky.social X+Y=K
El año pasado, su autobiografía «How I Came to Berlin» fue publicada por primera vez en inglés por una editorial de Dublín, @lilliputpress.bsky.social. Aun así, en la ciudad donde nació y pasó sus primeros años sigue siendo prácticamente una desconocida.
Based on hitherto unknown writings on nature and the locality in Cork, and translated from the original French by Lara Marlowe - Love of the Land from Sophie Toscan du Plantier is published by @lilliputpress.bsky.social in Nov. Preorder here - thebookshop.ie/sophie-tosca...
www.corkshortstory.net/thursday.html Cork pals, am looking forward to reading and the chats with Laura Cassidy and Louise Hegarty, tomorrow, as part of the Cork International Short Story Festival @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
Best way to spend a sunny morning? Visiting bookshops with the one and only Sue Rainsford ☀️ If you're looking for a perfect October read, signed copies of Sue's incredible new novel FROM OUT MY HEART are available across Dublin 🎃
She is here and we are OBSESSED! Copies of From Out My Heart by Sue Rainsford have arrived and they look stunning ✨ If you are looking for the perfect October read, add this to your TBR immediately - isolated religious communities, wet woodlands, possessions, motherhood
📕'This is a novel of artistry about art'—Rosemary Jenkinson reviews GLORIOUS MONSTERS by Martina Devlin📕 @lilliputpress.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/writers-go-w...
Writers Go Wild in Rome—Glorious Monsters, by Martina Devlin - Books Ireland
Glorious Monsters by Martina Devlin is a novel of artistry about art.
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Tonight! Don't miss the launch of Glorious Monsters, the incredible new novel from @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social - we're kicking off at 6pm at Hodges Figgis, all welcome! 🎉
He’s only gone and done it 🎉 A HUGE congrats to our submissions editor (and esteemed author!) Seán Farrell on winning the John McGahern Prize for his debut novel Frogs for Watchdogs 🎉 Frogs for Watchdogs is a brilliant, beautiful depiction of childhood, and we’d really recommend you get yourself a
The president of the United States is in Ireland this weekend
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS by JONATHAN SWIFT 🛶 Coming October 28th, we are delighted to be publishing a special Lilliput edition of the iconic Gulliver’s Travels, one of the most influential books ever written by an Irish author, in celebration of 300 years since its original 1726 publication 💫
A very happy publication day to the audiobook of THE UNEXPURGATED CODE narrated by none other than Simon Callow 🎉 Caleb and Kyle Audiobooks have produced the very first audio edition of Donleavy's wildly comic classic, and it is brilliant. We guarantee some out-loud snorting at the very least!
🤠 Looking forward to this event at the Dublin Book Festival, where I'll be chatting with John O'Donnell and Niall McMonagle about the Short Story form #dbf26 @lilliputpress.bsky.social dublinbookfestival.com/event/the-ar...
The Art of the Short Story - Dublin Book Festival
Hear authors Niamh Mac Cabe and John O'Donnell discussing their short story collections at Dublin Book Festival 2026
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Delighted to receive a proof of Sue's latest, very much enjoyed her first two
FROM OUT MY HEART By SUE RAINSFORD 🫀 When Phyllipa, a scholar chasing the lingering pulse of Edgar Allan Poe, hears of Lana, a woman living in an isolated community, who claims to be visited by the spirit of Poe's child bride Virginia Clemm, she travels to the remote village to meet her.
Really looking forward to a good chat with my old pal Sara Baume and Stephen Reid of @lilliputpress.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social in a few weeks’ time. Thanks to @literatureireland.bsky.social for hosting. Please do come and join us. www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
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Literature Ireland and the National Library of Ireland present Translating a Nation, an In Conversation series.
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FROM OUT MY HEART By SUE RAINSFORD 🫀 When Phyllipa, a scholar chasing the lingering pulse of Edgar Allan Poe, hears of Lana, a woman living in an isolated community, who claims to be visited by the spirit of Poe's child bride Virginia Clemm, she travels to the remote village to meet her.
X+Y=K by Ciaran Carson ⏳️ We are delighted to be publishing this genre-bending novel by the late, legendary Ciaran Carson. Moving between Belfast and London, X+Y=K traces the fractured consciousness of Kilpatrick, a man haunted by migraine visions, as he navigates a porous world.
The Pilgrimage is the Hodges Figgis fiction book of the month 🎉 Banned on its release, The Pilgrimage is, as Colm Tóibín writes in his introduction, an exploration of religiosity and sexuality that is ‘fearless and frank and sometimes comic’.
4 outstanding recent Irish short story collections: Liadan Ní Chuinn, Every One Still Here @stingingfly.bsky.social @grantabooks.bsky.social Dave Tynan, We Used to Dance Here @grantabooks.bsky.social Niamh Mac Cabe, Four Night Seas Shane Tivenan, To Avenge a Dead Glacier @lilliputpress.bsky.social
Glorious Monsters by Martina Devlin 💫 Rome, 1819. Into the sun-struck streets of the Eternal City arrive the Shelleys: brilliant, volatile, and dangerously entangled. When Irish artist Amelia Curran encounters Mary Shelley, her mercurial husband Percy, and Mary's dazzling stepsister-
A small and literal handful of some brilliant novels that we have been lucky enough to publish this year 🔥 SOMEWHERE is the spectacular and kaleidoscopic debut from Jessamine O’Connor, which follows Clodagh as she tries to piece the shards of her life back together while struggling-
A really lovely book exploring a woman’s grief. Absolutely gorgeous descriptions of nature and of finding joy in small things. Ends with a real sense of hope and happiness too. Can’t find the author on Bluesky but published by @lilliputpress.bsky.social #booksky #speirgorm
Book Review: CTRL: Essays On Video Games - An Affecting Anthology For Anyone Who Grew Up On Games.
Book Review: CTRL: Essays On Video Games - An Affecting Anthology For Anyone Who Grew Up On Games
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Not the Nintendo Life review 🔥 Amazing to see CTRL: Essays on Video Games edited by Dean Fee given such a brilliant and considered review in @nintendolife.com 🎮 A huge thank you to Gavin Lane for the review 👾
New blog post and a short review of @lilliputpress.bsky.social excellent collection of video game essays - tantobieinternettattler.blogspot.com/2026/08/ctrl...
CTRL - Essays on Video Games - edited by Dean Fee - Book Review
It's been a while, but work's been more than a tad hectic the last couple of months, and I've had little spare time. Fortunately, the bus tr...
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