Sara Bergman

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is happy to reveal and celebrate its second annual Shortlist of five fiction writers from Canada and the United States: Eleanor Catton, Claudia Dey, Kim Coleman Foote, V. V. Ganeshananthan, and Janika Oza. Learn more: bit.ly/3UddL0Q

Yana Stepanenko, a 12-year-old girl who lost her two legs in a Russian missile attack on Kramatorsk, has run 5 kilometers in Boston Marathon on her prostheses. Yana is raising funds to provide prostheses for a critically wounded Ukrainian soldier. Yana is truly an inspiration!

Double rainbow!

I've made a conscious decision to only order kids books with a stated human illustrator

Strong selection of new veggie cookbooks

A delightful new helper

Huge thank you to Sara Keating and ⁦The Irish Times⁩ for this lovely piece about The Whole Wild World Tour. ⁦Laureate na nÓg⁩ ⁦Children's Books Ireland⁩

Bought the Irish Times just to read this piece. What a closing paragraph from Mark O’Connell

Shiny new book bundles😍

Have you got your copy of Snowflake yet by Louise Nealon ? Join Dublin this April to read it together. Available from your local library or bookstore and on borrowbox. Book events: onedublinonebook.ie

Lovely morning in South Country Dublin

Huge thanks to the lovely Méabh McDonnell for stopping by this afternoon. Signed copies of her debut novel, Into the Witchwood, now in stock!

A few new 'n' notables

Aw man, doesn't it look fine. The colours!

Trail of Biscuits (partially eaten)
Artist unknown
Blackrock, 2024

Soft evening

Grand bit of a boat

On the eve Seamus's birthday, we're delighted to announce the PEN Heaney Prize, a new poetry prize in partnership with our friends English PEN and Irish PEN. More details here: englishpen.org/prizes/pen-hea…