Review: A Preparation for Death by Greg Baxter
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Review of Guards! Guards! By Terry Pratchett (Corgi, 1989)
I love Pratchett and Guards! Guards! is pretty damn good.
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September Meeting
Interesting approach here, Company Of Books are dealing with a selection the Booker nominated titles.
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Mockingjay’s Big Opening Sends Scholastic Back to Press
Mockingjay is selling like hotcakes!
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Books and bookmakers
Who’d have think it, 500K a year spent on book betting.
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DLR LIBRARY BLOG
Review for The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
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DLR LIBRARY BLOG
And one for The Help
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“The only way out is through.”
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Kobo is the power behind the Literati by The Sharper Image
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Watch this. It’s excellent until the band starts talking!

The living and working conditions of artists in the Republic and North of Ireland.
On the one hand, you wonder why we should worry too much about this? On the other it does seem sad!
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S&S joins iBookstore
I wonder when we’ll see it?
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Electric Picnic | David Donohue and Me
If you happen to find yourself in a field in Stradbally this weekend (namely at Electric Picnic), enjoying the music, comedians, art, dancing and literary what-nots – then this is for you.
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Down These Green Streets …
Good news this!
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Cor Klaasen Exhibition
This is an excellent idea.
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Response: The digital era has not made publishers defunct
Worth reading
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I am number four.
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Is there a role for the publisher in a digital market?
Interesting post from Zoe
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Third edition of OED unlikely to appear in print format
I don’t know why anyone would expect it would? Isn’t it better in digital form anyway, more useful?
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Paperbacks: Tom Widger
IF YOU thought there was little more to be said about this most discussed period in the country’s history, think again. Ann Matthews has dug deep and dug well and surfaces with some new information.
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Champagne bubbles remain fizzy for finale
In 2008 in Renards, the Dublin nightclub where Amanda Brunker once worked as a hostess, the self-styled model, TV presenter, party girl and former Miss Ireland launched Champagne Kisses, the first in a trilogy of novels charting the doings of one Eva “Da Diva” Valentine, gossip columnist, party animal and general good-time girl.
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Celebrity chef with a recipe for the Famine
Fascinating story!
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Beauty, harshness, menace and the spine of steel worthy of high art
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Seamus Heaney’s book of resurrections
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It was a bit of a kip, but it was our kip
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Review: Dan Donnelly 1788 – 1820 by Patrick Myler
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Elementary
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Book-post!
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Upwardly mobile | moving in and what not
And he discusses new digs!
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A rather excellent video featuring Jamie Byng, who’ll be appearing at Mountains To Sea in Dun Laoghaire in September

Upwardly mobile | moving in and what not
And he discusses new digs!
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Book Launch: Renegades: Irish Republican Women 1900-1922
Ann was on Pat Kenny yesterday, interesting book this one.
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Moving on
This really should be read, considered, parsed, filed and re-visited by publishers across the globe. It’s message, however unpalatable, is a vital one!
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Gollancz appoints Nash as digital publisher
On a very selfish level I admire Gollancz as a publisher, if only because they publish some of the finest sci-fi and fantasy.
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Miriam O’Callaghan and Mercier Press title
And why wouldn’t they? (I commissioned Moxie while working at Mercier Press)
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Sell, Socialise and Survive at the Frankfurt Book Fair
Good advice on Frankfurt. IPN will be there so don’t be afraid to send us your stories and releases!
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Edinburgh
Nice note on Edinburgh from Laura!
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Waterstone’s to open bar and restaurants
I think this makes sense, but don’t quote me on it!
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Samsung launches e-reader with W H Smith
When will the ebook and ereading bug bite home here? 
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PW Select: A Quarterly Service for Self-Published Authors to Launch in December
Publishers Weekly will launch a quarterly magazine in December focusing on announcements and reviews of self-published titles. However, listed self-published titles will come at a fee of $149 to the author and reviews will only be on selected titles.
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Publicity for Mercier Press titles
Three of Mercier Press titles were reviewed in national papers at the weekend.
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Reivew: Rules for a Perfect Life by Niamh Greene
IN Rules for a Perfect Life, each of the 27 chapters, like those in some self-help manuals, is headed by a maxim, which will, if followed, apparently change your life for the better.
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Tales of the Burren, and other places
A nice list of new local history titles
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Ireland’s desperadoes of the veld
Masked Raiders: Irish Banditry in Southern Africa, 1880-1899, By Charles van Onselen
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Book Club: Tenderwire by Claire Kilroy
An interesting move this!
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Review: Jumping in Puddles by Claire Allan
The Balamory lookalike seaside village of Rathinch may look postcard-perfect to summer visitors. But for locals who live there all year, it is a place of squinting windows, a hotbed of righteous gossip.
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Cló Morainn Covers
Nice post again!
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The economics of political memoirs
Interesting note on Political memoirs in the Uk and their sales!
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I Am Number Four – Pittacus Lore
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WH Smith slashes prices as e-book war intensifies
It’s getting hot and heavy there in ebooks!
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Smarter Than The Average Alec
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CALL ME ‘WRITER’ NOT ‘POET’, PLEASE
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James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Walt Whitman are a girl’s best friend
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The Life of a Full Time Writer – yep, that would be moi!
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Room
Nice review of Room from Raven Books
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Lennon takes the lead
Rampaging ex-paramilitaries, undercover cops and the return of familiar serial killers – there’s lots out there for lovers of the crime genre, writes DECLAN BURKE  
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Review: Girl In A Spin by Clodagh Murphy
Write what you know, they say, but Dublin author Clodagh Murphy has broken the rule and set her second novel in the world of British politics.
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The Temple House Festival – Music & The Arts
Was there for No Place Like Dome, smashing grounds.
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Go Read This | Author Ray Connolly explains why he is publishing his latest novel chapter by chapter, online | Books | The Guardian
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Panel Picking: SXSW 2011
It thrills me that the book community is actively participating in the South by Southwest Interactive festival.
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Movie adaptation – No Country for Old Men
I loved the book, just loved it! Aint seen the movie yet.
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Armouron Toys Hit the Shelves
Go Oisín
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More Concerns about Australia/New Zealand Bookselling Giant; McNally Jackson Still Waiting for Espresso to Brew
Bookstores in crisis everywhere it seems
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Learning some things at dinner in Sao Paolo
Fascinating post from Mike Sjatzkin
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Hemlines and the Hierarchy
Good review for THPI
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Fiction – Room
Decent review for Emma Donoghue’s The Room
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Karl Uhlemann II
I do love The Hitone cover blog!
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Riggio to take B&N private
B&N is going to survive the digital shift, at least that is my opinion.
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Quercus triples revenues to £15m
Amazing what one series can do for you eh?
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Ridout resurfaces at Phaidon
This is an interesting appointment.
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The Magic of Good Writing Days
There’s nothing like the feeling of joy and contentment that washes over you after a good writing day. A day where everything just clicks into place, where the characters dance off the page, wisecracking among themselves, telling the reader secrets that you, the writer, never knew.
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Lonely Planet launches augmented reality guide book
A very clever move by Lonely Planet
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August Meeting
For our book club meeting on Wednesday August 18, we are reading Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.
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One Thousand Casmurros from LiveAD on Vimeo.

This is, I think you will agree, pretty cool!

Amazon sells out of both Kindles days after launch
Quite a feat!
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Odyssey not commercial, says Makinson
Yes with a but!
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Amazon claims to have 70-80% of e-book market
Which in many ways demonstrates that the market is changing rapidly. Last year it would surely have been 90-95%.
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Want to choose your own adventure? There’s a books app for that
This is a nice development
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E-books to account for 10% of RH US sales, says Dohle
That’s a huge figure!
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The Checklist Manifesto
Nice note this from Raven Books
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Sunday Tribune Paperbacks Tom Widger
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Review: A Mobile Fortune: The Life and Times of Denis O’Brien by Siobhan Creaton
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Review: Dancing Prest by Aidan O’Connor
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Review: The Passage by Justin Cronin
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Review: Broken by Karin Slaughter
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Review: Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex bu Eoin Colfer
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Ten years of publishing worth its Salt
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Summer Fun at Scariff Library
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Dún Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures
They’ve used the cover for one of the first books I published!
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Sixties Fishing Guides
These are excellent
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Book launch: Executed for Ireland
Executed for Ireland: The Patrick Moran Story by May Moran was recently launched in King House, Boyle, Co Roscommon and in Kilmainham Jail.
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DLR LIBRARY BLOG
Two reviews from DLR Libraries today!
MAGIC UNIVERSE BY NIGEL CALDER.
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THE SLAP BY CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS
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Amazon’s ebook milestone: digital sales outstrip hardbacks for first time in US
Amazon sold more kindle ebooks than hardback books in the last three months
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A Look at Mexico City’s Book Kiosks
Nice feature from Publishing Perspectives
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A glimpse into the eighteenth century book trade: How to encourage book buying
Rather nice this one!
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Irish Times review Blood Money.
Good news for Arlene, nice review!
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Edinburgh!
Laura’s off to Edinburgh. I know some folks already there and others going. Sounds like fun!
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Novel Workshop 2010-2011
This is not a cheap workshop!
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Review of Gallows Lane by Brian McGilloway (Pan, 2008)
Doesn’t spare the author, but overall good takaway.
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Review: Capital Sins by Peter Cunningham
Great review for Peter Cunningham’s Capital Sins
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Clare County Library launches Children’s Book Festival on October 1st 2010 with best-selling author Darren Shan.
This is pretty big deal!
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Over 17,000 links added to library website
Now this is very cool
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Brutal harvest
Seems to me that Crime fiction has finally broken fully onto the Times books pages
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A curious treatment of the Troubles
This is a decent review in the sense of searching
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Chips off the old Irish block
Interesting review
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He lived fast and died young, but how good a writer was Behan?
Nice piece on Brendan Behan
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Ohmigod They’ve Shot Kenny, Etc.
Nice post & the Kenny videos are great!
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Bookfest Poster Revealed
Nice poster
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A bittersweet look at life
In 2007, Catherine O’Flynn was a little-known first-time author. After 20 rejections, her book What Was Lost was published by a tiny Birmingham publishing company.
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artemis find his nice side . . .
A preview for Artemis Fowl!
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On the Riverbank
Oisin gives an audience
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French Kissies From The USA
Tana French has really been getting the good from the US and Declan is right to point it out!
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And they’re off!
Help the runners! They done good!
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DLR LIBRARY BLOG
You know i HATED* this book, but several of my friends loved it.
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SO much so that I stopped reading it and dropped it back to the library, a rarity in my world.

Ceann an Bhóthair by Séamus Ó hAodha
Stunning cover
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One year on …
A year in blogging, it aint easy!
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Storymap, Dublin
Cool much?
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Sci Fi Novelists Take Note
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Plucky David or pirate of the Caribbean?
Does what it says on the tin!
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Some novel ways to end on a high
Great post on endings!
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A life less ordinary – Florence Broadhurst
Quite the post this! Bit of a rollercoaster
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Spies of the Modern World
Spies, spies, spies!
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Street Sessions at the Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown Malbay
Cool street sessions! I like
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The World: Gone To Hell In A Hand-Basket, Apparently
Declan sure knows his crime fiction
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The Philosophy and Vision of a Self-Published Writer
Interesting post!
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DLR LIBRARY BLOG
I love these DLR Library posts, they really are trying to reach out to their readers.
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The Bryce Is Right
Nice post from Declan, they all are!
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Critically Acclaimed Books I thought were awful
Great post and catty too!
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Thanks to Damien & David for spreading the Eddie Lenihan joy!

Will Europe’s Three Million Orphan Books Ever Be Digitized?
An even better one!
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Should the EC Legislate Clearances for Digital Book Rights?
A good question.
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Quercus buys new Stef Penney novel
Given Penny’s previous enormous success and Costa win, you’d have to think this one has a big future!
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DLR Review
These short reviews are good, but DLR Libraries need to title their posts!
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La Saga des Wildenstern
Nice covers for Foreign editions of Oisin’s books!
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What happened to Synge’s muse
Another big review for Ghost Light, I wonder will it stay in the Top ten!
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TRUTH, The Whole Truth And Nothing But
An excellent essay by Declan
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DIY Nuclear Reactors
What’s not to like here?
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sex, money and intrigue: the case that had it all
Abigail Rieley covered the Celine Cawley case as a court reporter and she was there every day during the trial of Cawley’s husband Eamonn Lillis who is now serving his sentence for her manslaughter.
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Day jobs and writers (5)
And here’s part five!
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Day jobs and writers (4)
I think this is a great series, one to read!
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Luke Johnson Agrees With Me
Some Thoughts On bookshops that somepeople didn’t like!
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Amazon Start Taking Pre-orders on New Kindle DX
A fancy new Kindle DX
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Salmon Poetry presents the Galway Launch of ‘Where’s Katie?’ by Elaine Feeney & ‘Invitation to a Sacrifice’ by Dave Lordan
Salmon Poetry invites you to celebrate the publication of two new collections of poetry
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Darren Shan Q&A
Nice Q&A with Darren Shan
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Old stories prove new hits as Binchy takes top spot
Maeve is doing well in the UK as well as in Ireland!
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