If you're still looking for the perfect book to settle down with over Christmas, or if you want to impress the reader in your life with a thoughtful gift, here are a few brilliant recommendations ❄️

A little bit of inspiration for anyone still looking for the perfect gift for the reader in their life 🎄 A huge thank you to Sarah Caden, Liadán Hynes, Jon Richards, Donal Fallon, Hilary A White and everyone who has been recommending our books this holiday season-

Some really interesting book recommendations by @rickoshea.bsky.social in today's @independent.ie Including Allan Radcliffe, Adrian Duncan, Roisín O'Donnell. I hadn't heard of Greyhound by Joanna Pocock but it sounds fascinating. www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

Honoured to see a few of our books included alongside some stellar gift recommendations courtesy of the Irish Times Christmas Magazine🎄 Delight the bookish person in your life by getting any of these titles from your local bookshop, or treat yourself to some cosy Christmas reading (you deserve it!)

A v fun morning spent visiting bookshops with the one and only Paddy Kirk, signing copies of THE DUBLIN COFFEE GUIDE ☕️ ✨️ Get your signed copy from: 📙 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social 📘 Dubray Grafton St and Mary St 📗 Easons O'Connell St and Stephen's Green 📕 @booksupstairs.bsky.social

Stuck for what to get the non-fiction reader in your life this Christmas? Let us help! 🎄 Take a peek at some of our fave non-fiction reads from the last year - whether you're a history buff, a memoir lover or just appreciate a good book, we've got something for you ❄️

Our #BooksoftheYear special includes work by @charlottewood.bsky.social Kevin Curran @lilliputpress.bsky.social @fflurdafydd.bsky.social @drkkennedy.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Liadan Ní Chuinn @stingingfly.bsky.social & @poetrybuspress.bsky.social thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/06/b...

From @lilliputpress.bsky.social , just in the door, the official history of Galway's iconic (yes) @druidtheatre.bsky.social by Patrick Lonergan. A fine book, beautifully illustrated. thebookshop.ie/patrick-lone...

✨️ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ✨️ Get those manuscripts ready - we are opening for submissions in December! Send us your best literary fiction, non-fiction, history, essays, memoir or biography, especially if it has an Irish focus. For full guidelines on how to submit, go to www.lilliputpress.ie 📚

❄️ Winter Opening Hours ❄️ Our Stoneybatter bookshop will be open for all your gift buying needs every weekday AND weekend from now until Christmas 🎄 We have books, tote bags and postcards aplenty, so pop in Mon-Fri 9-5, or Sat-Sun 9.30-5, to find that perfect gift for the bookworm in your life 🎁

or pick up a copy at the #DublinSmallPressFair today, 10-4. nice and dry in the Pearse Street Library!

Want to treat the booklover in your life to the perfect Christmas gift? 🎄🎁 Take a look at our fiction titles! Whether you're a fan of novels, short story collections, or fiction in translation, we have a little bit of something for everyone at Lilliput ✨️

'There hasn't been [a coffee guide] I've found, where someone has visited each of the places, experienced it for themselves and taken all the shots. I found that personal side of the book very nice, and I hope others take that away from reading it.' - Paddy Kirk speaking with Pat McCarry ☕️

We are so delighted to be taking part in the inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair later this month ✨️ Come along to Pearse Street Library on November 28 and 29 to say hi, browse our wares and celebrate all of the amazing indie publishers, literary magazines, writers, zines and-

We were honoured to be mentioned in this fantastic article @rte.ie about the upcoming inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair alongside so many wonderful independent Irish publishers, including @lilliputpress.bsky.social, @skeinpress.bsky.social, @machapress.bsky.social, and so many more.

🎄 Snowflakes and Songs: Christmas Family Fun Day at Collins Barracks! 🗓️ Sun, 30 Nov | 🕒 13:30–16:00 🎨 Crafting with Róisín de Buitléar 🎶 Carols by Glória LGBT+ Choir 🍽️ Tour: History of Food & Drink ✨ ISL interpreted activities 🎁 Free & family-friendly! www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

If you're looking for some early Christmas inspiration, look no further! 🎄😎 Take a peek at our most recent gift books and get a headstart on your Christmas list with Lilliput - we have something for everyone! Books are available from our website or from any good bookshop 📚

Over the moon that 'Francis Bacon's Nanny' has been shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 🎉 Delighted to be included on such an amazing list 🌟

⭐️Our lists of new releases for November are out! ⭐️ Check out this month's new titles in our fully searchable data base First Flush—or look back to see what you've missed! 🔽🔽🔽 booksirelandmagazine.com/new-releases/ @newislandbooks.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social @daleneireann.bsky.social

Beyond delighted that Francis Bacon's Nanny by Maylis Besserie, translated by Clíona Ní Ríordáin, has been longlisted for the 2025 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation ✨ The judges said of the 2025 longlist: “This year, as every year, the longlist for this award showcases the extraordinary range

We are so excited to be launching THE DUBLIN COFFEE GUIDE by PADDY KIRK as part of the Dublin Book Festival on Thursday, November 6 ✨ Fancy an espresso tasting and hearing about Dublin's thriving coffee scene from the man behind the sensational DubStreetCafe?

NEW: Jade Bailey Brock reviews A Hut at the Edge of the Village stingingfly.org/review/a-hut... A newly-reissued anthology of excerpts from the work of Irish writer and philosopher John Moriarty, edited by writer & storyteller Martin Shaw, and published by @lilliputpress.bsky.social in April 2025

Today we had a little catch-up with author of Swift Blaze of Fire, Lin Rose Clark. Read it ➡️ bit.ly/47zXNmP @lilliputpress.bsky.social and catch Lin talking about her book at our Festival Hub on Sunday 9 November

History, architecture, Halloween & more! 🎃🏛️ Join us at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks this October for sensory-friendly hours, family workshops & themed tours #CollinsBarracks #DublinEvents #FamilyFun #BramStokerFestival #OpenHouseDublin Full lineup at www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

'No more singular body of characters will ever rub shoulders again at any given time, or a city more uniquely bizarre than literary Dublin will ever be seen.' Fifty years on, 'Remembering How We Stood' by John Ryan still stands as one of the greatest accounts of post-war,

Author @oonaf.bsky.social's This Interim Time (@lilliputpress.bsky.social) is a poignant meditation on memory, family, and the brief windows of life we share with those we love. This #IrishBookWeek, Oona joins us to share some of her favourite books about grief. Read now: buff.ly/1wwAtgh

Much grá this Seachtain na Leabhar Éireannach to the bookshops and booksellers around the country ✨️ Booksellers are the unsung heroes of the Irish book industry, and we are endlessly grateful for the support bookshops have shown Lilliput and other Irish publishers this year.

The perfect blend: coffee and a good book ☕ 📖 We're giving away a copy of The Dublin Coffee Guide (@lilliputpress.bsky.social), along with a French press and coffee from Bailies Coffee Roasters in Belfast – the perfect treat to enjoy with your new #IrishBookWeek reads. Enter now: buff.ly/BSnNzUb

THE DUBLIN COFFEE GUIDE by PADDY KIRK ☕️ From the man behind the Instagram sensation @dubstreetcafe comes a history and celebration of Dublin's thriving coffee culture.

DRUID THEATRE: FIFTY YEARS by PATRICK LONERGAN 🎭 We are delighted to be publishing this fully-illustrated and authorised history of the iconic institution that is Druid Theatre, written by Patrick Lonergan with a foreword from Fintan O'Toole.

Cover Reveal! 🤩 We're very excited to reveal the cover of Druid Theatre: Fifty Years This new book is an illustrated and authorised history of Druid's first fifty years by Professor @pflonergan.bsky.social Published by @lilliputpress.bsky.social, the book features a foreword by Fintan O'Toole

So much fun visiting bookshops around Dublin today with the incredible Steve Pyke, signing copies of his amazing new book SCRIBENDI: PORTRAITS OF IRISH WRITERS 1985-2025 ✨️ Signed copies of Scribendi are available from:

'With a marvellous cast of characters and even an ending that nods at James Joyce's 'The Dead', it's hard to know what more could be asked of this winning piece of work.' - Pat Carthy, Sunday Independent INJURY TIME by Kevin Smith is out NOW! It's a brilliant novel-

'Some nights an old story would be my element. Living in it, letting it live in me, I'd draw big waking and big dreaming from it.' We are thrilled to finally have our hands on the new updated edition of DREAMTIME by John Moriarty. A classic in spiritual writing, Moriarty's groundbreaking first book

In pictures: Portraits of Irish writers as you have never seen them before. Former New Yorker photographer Steve Pyke has compiled a striking book of portraits beginning with Neil Jordan in 1985 and including Marian Keyes, Edna O’Brien, Sebastian Barry (and me!) www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

'A striking book ... Faces loom and pulse from the pages, some as if appearing in dreams ... All command the eye.' Rosita Boland, The Irish Times Magazine Delighted to see a gorgeous feature in today's Irish Times Magazine on SCRIBENDI: PORTRAITS OF IRISH WRITERS 1985-2025 by Steve Pyke 📸

SCRIBENDI: PORTRAITS OF IRISH WRITERS 1985-2025 by Steve Pyke 📸 In this unprecedented visual record, Steve Pyke has taken over 100 portraits of Irish literary legends — from Seamus Heaney and Edna O’Brien to Anne Enright, Kevin Barry, and Louise Kennedy —

We're delighted to have a few Lilliput authors included in this year's unreal line-up at @dublinbookfest.bsky.social 🎉 Don't miss your chance to see STEVE PYKE, SHANE TIVENAN, MARY MORRISSY, KEITH DONALD and LIN ROSE CLARK, and check out the full programme to see all of the-

📕Lots of new releases coming in October! Here is just a small sample (of over 150 titles)—check out our fully searchable database First Flush 📕 booksirelandmagazine.com/new-releases/ @bansheepress.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

'My only ambition as a writer is to strike at some truth about the voice within us all that can only be heard in the deepest silences.' Donal Ryan by Steve Pyke 📸 We are incredibly lucky to have THE Donal Ryan included in Scribendi, one of the most talented (and humble) writers in the country.

Fun day in the sun with Kevin Smith signing copies of his amazing novel INJURY TIME all over Dublin! Signed copies are now available at: 📕 @booksupstairs.bsky.social 📘 Dubray Books Mary St 📗 Hodges Figgis Big ups to the booksellers for their support ✨️

My other half on book-signing tour for #InjuryTime @lilliputpress.bsky.social & delighted to make the washing-machine window @dubraybooks.bsky.social

'I wrote plays and stories as a child and performed them for any willing audience ... It was usually just my siblings, but it set something on fire in me.' Elaine Feeney by Steve Pyke 📸 We are delighted to have Elaine Feeney - writer, poet, Galway queen - included in Scribendi.

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 🍷🎉