First sighting of Scribendi in the wild! A gorgeous, gorgeous book celebrating the last forty years of Irish writing ❤️

There's a reason Colin Farrell is obsessed with Tayto 😤 From humble beginnings to a cultural icon, this is the story behind the (rightfully!) favourite crisp of the nation 💪 Beautifully illustrated, informative and hilarious, treat yourself or the crisp fanatic in your life to THE STORY OF TAYTO-

Injury Time by Kevin Smith: Engrossing and supremely witty

'Engrossing and supremely witty ... Smith has given us a poignant study of masculinity - and a penetrating portrait of a world under tremendous strain.' - Neil Hegarty, Irish Times A brill review of INJURY TIME, the latest novel from Kevin Smith 🍷🎉

'I am aiming for greater clarity and simplicity.' Michael Longley by Steve Pyke 📸 We feel very fortunate to have Michael Longley, a poet who thought like no one else, in Scribendi. His portrait, like his work, is immense and we hope having him included in the project will encourage-

Get your tickets before they're gone! 🎉

New from @lilliputpress.bsky.social 'Injury Time' by Kevin Smith This novel is a poignant, acerbic look at a man out of sync with the world around him. available to buy @omahonysbooks.bsky.social 📖 sample to look inside and share www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

Fabulous launch last night for Kevin Smith’s #InjuryTime - now at number 1 @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social - thanks to everyone for coming @tlrhub.bsky.social @profdarryljones.bsky.social @etaintannam.bsky.social @klillington.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social

Happy publication day to HOW I CAME TO BERLIN by ELIZABETH SHAW 🎨🎉 Rediscover one of Ireland's great forgotten artists. Originally from Belfast, Elizabeth Shaw relocated to Berlin after WWII, where she became one of Germany's most celebrated children's authors.

Just arrived. Looking forward to reading this. @lilliputpress.bsky.social

Happy publication week to this gem of a book, INJURY TIME by KEVIN SMITH 🍷🎉 Injury Time is the poignant, acerbic and at times hilarious story of Fenton Conville; businessman, upper-class, lapsed-Protestant. He coasts through life with his mates and his money in a sleepy village at the edge of-

Fully obsessed with this name from "Irish Names" by Donnchadh Ó Corráin & Fidelma Maguire (@lilliputpress.bsky.social )

'I suspect that on some level I deliberately maintain this artistic discontentment. I never want to be someone who bathes in the gushes of past praise.' Naoise Dolan by Steve Pyke 📸 SCRIBENDI is the new book and exhibition by acclaimed photographer Steve Pyke.

This book by legendary photography Steve Pyke is out next month. There will be an accompanying exhibition opening at Photo Museum Ireland in Dublin on October 9th, featuring portraits of Irish writers (honoured to be one of them). @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.lilliputpress.ie/products/scr...

Thanks to @lilliputpress.bsky.social for sending me this absolutely gorgeous leabhar on Irish names today. Some absolute stunning names in here.

A very happy publication week to IRISH NAMES and ESCAPE FROM THE ANTHILL 🎉 Whether you're looking to reconnect with your Irish or you just want a cracking essay collection for the weekend, these two gorgeous books are now available in all good bookshops (including our own!) ☀️

I'm excited to chat with Shane Tivenan and Catriona Shine about (built) environments and their works To Avenge A Dead Glacier and Habitat respectively in October here in #Oslo. Both out from @lilliputpress.bsky.social Free, sign up here: shop.prismaticpages.com/products/bui...

We're delighted that A LIFE IN MEDICINE by EOIN O'BRIEN has been chosen as the Book of the Baggotonia Festival 2025 🌟 We are also excited to be collaborating with the gorgeous Baggotonia Concept Store to create the festival's first ever pop-up bookstore!

'On a sentence level, Kenny is nothing short of a magician.' - Laura Cassidy, Irish Examiner Happy publication week to MINT & OTHER STORIES by ADRIAN KENNY 🎉 Lovely to see a pair of stellar reviews for Adrian's latest collection in the Irish Examiner and the Irish Times over the weekend ✨️

SCRIBENDI by STEVE PYKE 📸 We are delighted to be publishing this landmark book which features over 100 portraits and interviews with Ireland's greatest contemporary writers, captured through the lens of one of the world's most renowned photographers, Steve Pyke ✨️

Have a nosy at this selection of brilliant books for the ✨️ historically-inclined ✨️ readers out there! From the Irish revival in Hollywood to fighting fascism, and Irish life in Romanov Russia to the American painter who influenced the Treaty - we have a bit of everything for everyone!

The brilliant Martina Devlin @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social was on RTÉ Radio 1 talking about Edith Somerville - check out her sensational books Edith and Charlotte on the Lilliput site and have a listen to her episode here: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

If you needed a sign to pre-order INJURY TIME by KEVIN SMITH, this is it 👀 In this remarkable new literary comedy from the author of Jammy Dodger, shortlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize, businessman Fenton Conville has it all sewn up-

Banshee Press will open for book submissions from 1-15 October. More details to follow soon. Ready your manuscripts! 📝 bansheepress.org/read/banshee...

Great evening with #DanielleMcLaughlin interviewing #ShaneTivenan on his debut collection #ToAvengeaDeadGlacier @lilliputpress.bsky.social

'Sure wasn't I at least the author of my own tale? And if you can say that as you depart this world, you can say a lot.' - Donal Ryan, The Spinning Heart We are lucky enough to have published some amazing writers over the years, so if you're looking for some weekend reading inspiration-

IRISH NAMES by DONNCHADH Ó CORRÁIN and FIDELMA MAGUIRE ☀️ We are delighted to be bringing back this best-selling classic on Irish names into print! Want to learn more about Irish names and their origins? This is THE quintessential guide, drawing on annals, genealogies, myths and legends -

This Thursday in Cork - don't miss out on seeing Shane Tivenan, author of the brilliant collection To Avenge a Dead Glacier, and award-winning writer Danielle McLaughlin in conversation! Best of all, it's free! Book your place here - eventbrite.ie/e/to-avenge-...

Shane Tivenan, author of the stunning debut collection To Avenge a Dead Glacier will be in conversation with award-winning writer Danielle McLaughlin in Cork City Library on Thursday 21 August. #FreeEvent @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/to-avenge-...

For issue 128, we put the spotlight on Liliput Press. Explore a staple of the Irish literary scene with 600+ titles published over the past 40 years. Read the full coverage 👇https://www.thepublishingpost.com/post/indie-spotlight-on-the-lilliput-press

Very exciting visit to Finidr with Steve Pyke and designer Niall McCormack to check out proofs of SCRIBENDI - a celebration of four decades of Irish writers, in collaboration with Photo Museum Ireland, coming soon! 👀

HOW I CAME TO BERLIN by ELIZABETH SHAW 🎨 Elizabeth Shaw, originally from Belfast, became one of Germany's most celebrated children's authors, publishing 23 books in her lifetime, and yet she remains virtually unknown in Ireland.

ESCAPE FROM THE ANTHILL by HUBERT BUTLER 🐜 We're delighted to be publishing the 40th anniversary edition of Escape from the Anthill by Hubert Butler, one of Ireland's great essayists, featuring a foreword from Roy Foster ✨️

'A short story moves like a shadow, a dark presence glimpsed at the corner of the writer's eye as it passes by, fleetly and silently, but it carries with it a great certainty of feeling.' - Kevin Barry, in his introduction to The Lonely Voice

INJURY TIME by KEVIN SMITH 🍷 We are beyond excited to be publishing the latest novel from award-winning writer Kevin Smith! Injury Time is a poignant, acerbic look at a man out of sync with the world around him. By turns hilarious and incisive, Smith manages to blend satire with-

'Perhaps we are indeed too late, he seems to say—but look closely, listen carefully to what remains.' Maya Kulukundis reviews To Avenge a Dead Glacier, by Shane Tivenan @lilliputpress.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/a-writer-att...

☀️ SUMMER SALE ☀️ Looking for your next summer read? Look no further 😎 We're offering 10% off all Lilliput titles on our website - just use the code LILLIPUTSUMMER at checkout to get your discount! The offer ends on August 1, so get in while you can ✨

'Music courses through the book ... a distinctive history of Ireland's fledgling music industry.' - Tony Clayton-Lea, The Irish Times Delighted to see MUSIC AND MAYHEM by Keith Donald reviewed alongside a few other incredible music books 🎶

Might squeeze in one more book before my holiday ends. News of the World by Andrew McNeillie, visionary editor of the sublime Archipelago journal. About his stint in the news business as a young man before packing it in to go live on Inishmore. Published by the mighty @lilliputpress.bsky.social

An elegant, elegiac book which delicately sets Hilliard's unusual life and death within the context of the tumultuous upheavals of Irish history and the rise of fascism.' An amazing review for SWIFT BLAZE OF FIRE by Lin Rose Clark in this month's Literary Review ✨

Proofs, proofs, proofs! We're delighted to have ARCs of INJURY TIME, the latest novel from Kevin Smith 🎉 Businessman Fenton Conville has it all sewn up, coasting through life with his mates and his money in a sleepy Northern Irish village.

I was delighted to see This Interim Time in the @irishtimes.com's 'best books for summer 2025': www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...? Thank you @martindoyle.bsky.social & @jesstraynor.bsky.social 🙏🙏 @lilliputpress.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynoothenglish.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social

🎉 FREE EVENT 🎉 For anyone in Clare, don't miss out on your chance to see Shane Tivenan and Darragh McKeon in conversation! These two incredible writers will be chatting on Thursday, 10 July in the Salmon Bookshop - do come along for what will be a deadly night ✨

Submissions are now closed - thank you to everyone who submitted, we're excited to get reading and plan to get back to you as soon as possible. If you missed this window, don't worry, we'll be open again for submissions later in the year! 📚

Thank you so much to all of the bookshops and readers - so grateful for your support! 🙏🙏 🥰

For anyone in Belfast this evening, don't miss the one and only Keith Donald in action - he'll be performing in No Alibis from 6PM! 🎷

It's been just over a month since we launched THIS INTERIM TIME by @oonaf.bsky.social, so it feels like a good time to share some of the lovely things reviewers have said about it 🧡💛

3 really strong first short story collections from Irish writers pub. this year: Liadan Ní Chuinn, Every One Still Here @stingingfly.bsky.social & @grantabooks.bsky.social Dave Tynan, We Used to Dance Here @grantabooks.bsky.social Shane Tivenan, To Avenge a Dead Glacier @lilliputpress.bsky.social

Book post from @lilliputpress.bsky.social Two collections of personal writing from Andrew McNeillie, poet and editor of the excellent Archipelago journal of island writing: News of the World and An Aran Keening.

Listen to this brilliant interview with Mary Morrissy about #PenelopeUnbound and Bloomsday on The Bookshelf on ABC Australia: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...