I read a lot of cracking books in April. Here’s a round up of the best nine books I read for the first time this month

Launching #TheIrishConstructionCycle by Nicholas Mansergh tonight (30th April) 6.30-8pm in #TempleBar , free & all welcome!

#booklaunch #bookevent #bookshop #reading #GutterEvents #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #booklover #booksbooksbooks #bookshop lover #bookshop love

Thank you Gutter Bookshop for my John Connolly order that arrived this morning!! Yes, I am that girl that buys a dedicated hard back to keep and a paper back to read!! Full collection now as I lost my original 'lost things' #happiness #gutterbookshop

What a lovely publication day! Thanks to all Halfway up the Stairs esp Trish for all their cheerleading this morning! And to my kind and lovely friend Eve McDonnell 💫 THE LAST BOY (Sept) 💫 who not only created the most beautiful window for the shop but also brought me out to lunch! You spoil me, Eve!

And it’s over.
After a year of planning and dreaming, we set off from Malin Head two weeks ago. Today, we said goodbye in Kinsale. The bus has headed back to Dublin and tomorrow I’ll be in Galway. Huge thanks to all,especially project manager Ruth Ní Eidhin
and all at CBI.

An unexpected treat! Was Gutter Bookshop earlier and spotted copies of Ghost Mountain in the wild! And lovely Marta Starosta was able to give me my pre-ordered copy🧡 It's really beautiful and Tom Climent's painting on the front and Donal Ryan's quote on the back are so perfect.

Thanks to Gutter Bookshop for hosting John Connolly launch of #TheInstrumentsofDarkness Hodder & Stoughton . As usual a wonderful crowd of readers out to support their favourite author!

Today is the day the weather turns!
(says Marta after seeing frost on the ground in the morning)

Fancy an exciting new read? Both shops are open every day of the week and not all staff are as grumpy as Marta.

#IrishWeather #irishBookshops #lovereading #lovebooks #booklover

The chimneys of Poolbeg thermal generating station, known locally as Pigeon House, are an iconic part of Dublin's skyline. Situated on an artificial peninsula of reclaimed land, they feature in music videos, movies, and novels. The distinctive red and white twins were built in…

Local Sligo woman shortlisted for book set in Sligo. Won't shut up about Sligo.
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Delighted to meet superwoman Sue Leonard again, be introduced to #Sligo literary sensation Sheila Armstrong, meet fellow booksellers from Gutter Bookshop & Dubray plus discover that some of the Bloomsbury Books UK girls are #DerryGirls fans & also like onion rings! 📚💚5/6

Translink Lisa McGee I can deliciously report that the #Derry Girls #CreamHorns arrived freshly from #Derry & were scoffed by the fab staff of Connolly Books The New Theatre & Gutter Bookshop in #Dublin . You gotta spoil your fellow booksellers! 💚📚🧁

last orange of the year is waiting to be picked 🤗🥺

#EUNIC European Book Club with Rafal Wojasinski about his book #Olanda , expertly interviewed by Zbyszek Zalinski.
Thank you to Polish Embassy IRL & Literature Ireland for organising.
Glagoslav Publications

This The New York Times Style Magazine on art, creativity, and starting out on that path is superb. They should hand out copies of it on the first day of college.

Finished!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ this book has blown me away the writing, those sentences and words I’m just 🤯🤯🤯🤯 a harsh look at a community, wives, husbands, children, doing the best for them, punishment, gossip & the roaring sea looking on 🥰 #BookTwitter

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General Sale 10AM Friday

#dalkey bookfestival #DBF2024 #dalkey

At 6.30pm in the Lexicon library in Dún Laoghaire, there will be a special tribute to acclaimed poet Eavan Boland, where 20 writers will read their favourite Boland poem.

Sarah J & May absolutely delighted with nomnoms from Jenni Little Acorns Bookstore!

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#TheyBetterLeaveOneForMarta

Finished Heart, Be At Peace, the new novel by Donal Ryan. I'm a big fan of Donal's, but I think this is my new favourite. A relay of interior voices, vivid & deftly distinguished. The male psyche depicted as a reflection in a well: clear but rippled, with unnerving depths below.