Episode 2 of Books and Their Makers is here, with excellent timing! In this one I speak to Gaëlle Bélem & translators Karen Fleetwood & @stl_laetitia about Bélem's novel There's a Monster Behind the Door, longlisted for the International Booker today: radio.moli.ie/r/gaelle-belem

It cannot be overstated how important this award is to small publishers: the prize money awarded at longlist and shortlist level this year has kept our bank balance in the black as well as bringing our title to a whole new readership.

Introducing this excellent talk today! If you're in UCD drop in

Joint Statment: Call for University College Dublin's Withdrawal from CATALOOP Partnership with Israel’s Technion and Ben-Gurion University Academics for Palestine UCD Justice for Palestine ucdsu.ie/news/joint-sta…

An absolute outrage. Our colleagues and students in Palestine slaughtered, those who protest against this slaughter are expelled and their degrees revoked. Academic freedom is under siege.

🇷🇪🎧 Books & Their Makers podcast: episode with author Gaelle Belem and her #translators Karen Fleetwood & @stl_laetitia, presented by Tim Groenland share.transistor.fm/s/64d9b9c1 via MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland

If you had told me when we first started Tolka that, four years later, we would have Annie Ernaux on the line-up, well ... Feeling v grateful to announce the line-up of Issue Nine today, featuring some all-time favourite writers and exciting new talent. Pre-order now!

I hate this place and I'm mostly posting on Bluesky now, but I have to acknowledge that I'm still not seeing encyclopedic conceptual novelists posting Gary Neville clips over there

How Irish booksellers feel about the arrival of Amazon.ie: ‘It’s a very real danger to the industry’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

"…physical book retail in Ireland is hugely important for Irish publishers & Irish authors & Irish culture…" So grateful for all the Irish booksellers I've met the last few years, & bookshops I've spent so much time in over my life. They need support. irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

I spoke to some booksellers about the arrival of Amazon's Irish website and what it might mean for them (link in next post)

Translators, readers, anyone interested in literary translation! Come to MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland next Monday night to see multi-award-winning translator, author and editor Daniel Hahn in conversation with Sinéad Mac Aodha. Tickets €5/free for MoLI members moli.ie/events/a-life-…

Me and my brilliant colleague Éireann are excited to be organising the inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair!😀 It's happening this November. If you run a small press (loosely defined - see more detail on the website), then please consider applying! dublinsmallpressfair.com

Great article from Tim Groenland on the impact of Amazon on Irish bookselling

Unfortunately this event is postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. We'll try to rearrange for a later date

2,600 violations of 'ceasefire' in 5 months by Israel

I wrote a Leaving Cert music essay in which I enthused about how the bass on Don't Talk emulates the rhythm of a heartbeat. RIP, the best to ever do it