A very happy publication day to SOMEWHERE by Jessamine O'Connor 🎉 Swipe to see some of the lovely things people have been saying about this stunning debut, and then run to your local bookshop to get a copy for yourself 🐦

Events this week ✨️ We have the latest memoir from renowned architect John Tuomey, new editions of John Broderick's novels, and a gorgeous debut from the brilliant Jessamine O'Connor all coming this week 🥰 All welcome - we promise a good, literary time 📚

We had a brilliant night launching CTRL: Essays on Video Games, put together and edited by the maestro and legendary gamer guy Dean Fee 👾 Love to the contributors who read on the night, love to the contributors who were in the crowd, and love to the contributors who weren’t able to be there -

"To a notable degree, every one of the essays focuses on how games can act as a cypher for recovery or trauma processing." Jessica Anne Rose reviews CTRL: Essays on Video Games, ed. Dean Fee @lilliputpress.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/born-from-im...

A little sneak peek at some of the brilliant pieces in CTRL: Essays on Video Games, edited by Dean Fee 👾🎮 Catch Dean and Lisa McInerney on RTÉ Arena tomorrow evening talking video games, writing and everything in between, and join us on Thursday at @booksupstairs.bsky.social for the launch-

A gorgeous sunny day spent visiting bookshops with the one and only Martin Doyle to sign copies of his new book A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026 ✍️ Signed copies of A Hosting are now available from: 📗 Easons Stephen’s Green 📘 Dubray Books Grafton Street

I have my battered and much loved copy, wonderful to see the excellent @lilliputpress.bsky.social bringing back The Unexpurgated Code for #jpdonleavy100 a fitting way to celebrate the centenary of his birth👌A brilliantly funny, and insightful book 📚

We are so delighted to be bringing J.P. Donleavy's masterfully written satire THE UNEXPURGATED CODE back into print, in honour of Donleavy's 100th birthday 🎉 Described by The New York Times as 'possibly the funniest book ever written', Donleavy's guide to-

What a ball celebrating @martindoyle.bsky.social and his new book A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026 in Galway and Dublin over the last week ✨ A huge thank you to the incredible teams at @kennysbookshop.bsky.social and @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social for their hard work, support and-

Enjoyed @lilliputpress.bsky.social great launch for @irishtimes.com Books Editor @martindoyle.bsky.social latest book #AHosting Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026, @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social . Martin has supported so many Irish writers over the years. I’m honoured & delighted to be included.😊

This looks great! Love the range of contributors. Going into our window beside @mackeza.bsky.social

My feature for the Irish Post on the Irish writers born in Britain featured in A Hosting eg Paul Howard, Mike McCormack, Catherine O’Flynn, Martin McDonagh, Eugene McCabe and Bridget O’Connor and British-based ones such as Roy Foster and Martina Evans www.irishpost.com/features/hos...

A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026 – A good listener’s illuminating, engaging conversations. Margaret Kelleher, chair of Anglo-Irish literature and drama at UCD, reviews A Hosting, my new book www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Currently reading: Four Night Seas, a marvellous collection of short stories by Niamh MacCabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social , published by @lilliputpress.bsky.social #ShortStories

What a wonderful review to wake up to on publication day. Thanks to Rosemary Jenkinson for such a close reading of my work and to Books Ireland for running it booksirelandmagazine.com/fiction-need...

🌟 Launching tonight 🌟 Join us from 6PM at Alliance Française Dublin, where we will be joined by legendary French journalist and writer Sorj Chalandon to launch The Fourth Wall, with the support of the French Embassy in Ireland and Institut Français 💫

Just arrived today, (with an excellent cover from Louis le Brocquy no less) is A Hosting from @martindoyle.bsky.social via @lilliputpress.bsky.social - interviews with the cream of Irish writers over 35 years. #speirgorm

Congratulations to Niamh Mac Cabe launching her brilliant short story collection Four Night Seas at No Alibis this evening. Another great book from @lilliputpress.bsky.social

IT'S HERE! Thank you to @lilliputpress.bsky.social for supporting my writing. Really delighted to be a contributor in this collection😄 If you're interested in supporting the arts and hearing from different games folks' perspectives, get it today 💃🏼 www.lilliputpress.ie/products/ctr... #gamedev

Thrilled to have @martindoyle.bsky.social in to sign copies of his new book A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026 out this Thursday! 🙌 Catch Martin at @kennysbookshop.bsky.social ennysbookshop on Thursday, or in @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social s on Tuesday 21 April-

We loved this gorgeous piece on CTRL: Essays on Video Games in last weeks @thetimes.com 👾 A massive go raibh maith agat to @sweetoblivion.bsky.social (brilliant writer and future gamer) for the write-up in her column (which you should read) ✨

Next Tuesday evening (14/04), I shall be assuming into Heaven from Belfast's steadfast No Alibis Bookstore @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.ticketsource.com/no-alibis-bo...

My interview with Jan Carson about her latest novel, Few and Far Between, inspired by Terence O’Neill’s madcap plan to drain Lough Neagh and turn into another county. It is included in A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026, published by Lilliput Press www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

So grateful to @martindoyle.bsky.social for this long, insightful piece about #FewAndFarBetween in today’s Irish Times. Martin has been a great supporter of Irish writing, including mine, for as long as I’ve been writing. He’s a careful reader, a champion of new voices and a great chat altogether

Thanks to the Farmer's Journal (Ireland) for including Druid Theatre: 50 Years in their round-up of new books. @druidtheatre.bsky.social and @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.farmersjournal.ie/life/feature...

We are delighted to be launching CTRL: ESSAYS ON VIDEO GAMES on Thursday, 30th April at @booksupstairs.bsky.social airs 🎮 ✨️ Editor Dean Fee will be joined by contributors Roisin Kiberd, John Patrick McHugh, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan and Paul Whyte, who will read from their gorgeous pieces 🎮

✨ BOOK LAUNCH ✨ We are delighted to be launching FOUR NIGHT SEAS by Niamh Mac Cabe on April 14 at No Alibis 🐕 🌊 Join us for what will be a brilliant evening, all welcome ✨Book your spot via the link below! ‘Mac Cabe is a master of the short story.’ Lucy Sweeney Byrne noalibis.com/event/book-l...

My essay on production and the shambolic games industry is featured in this book which launches in April in Books Upstairs in Dublin! Attendance is free but booking is essential. Launch event here 😄 booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...

SOMEWHERE by JESSAMINE O'CONNOR 🐦 ✨️ We are delighted to be publishing the stunning debut novel by Jessamine O'Connor 🎉 Clodagh finds herself adrift after leaving her partner Seamus. Navigating addiction, the harsh realities of a housing crisis, and relationships pushed to the brink-

Just read - ‘The Lock-Keeper’s Wife @lilliputpress.bsky.social , a beautiful, tender book, by John MacKenna #Novel #ReadBooks

Belfast pals, I'd be delighted to see you at my collection's launch in No Alibis Bookshop on Tuesday 14th April at 6pm👁️ @lilliputpress.bsky.social noalibis.com/event/book-l...

Some weekend inspiration from the maestro Anthony Cronin 🙌 For the most immersive Dead As Doornails reading experience, we recommend making a ✨️ literary ✨️ pub crawl to Cronin's old haunts 🍻 Dead As Doornails is available in all good bookshops now 📚

Happy publication day to THE FOURTH WALL by Sorj Chalandon, translated by Cheney Crow 🎉 Appearing in English for the first time, The Fourth Wall follows George, a young French activist, who attempts to stage a performance of Jean Anouilh's Antigone in Beirut at the outbreak of the second

Four Night Seas by Niamh Mac Cabe: A quiet, subtle capturing of cultural identity without resort to cliche

‘These stories are so precise, the language so elegant, they read like they could’ve been written on the edge rather than the face of the pages.’ - Lucy Sweeney Byrne Hard to pick a single quote from this stunning review of FOUR NIGHT SEAS by @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social in this Irish Times review ✨

Woke up to this wonder in today's The Irish Times. ☘️🪄🏑 @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

‘Four Night Seas’ is an exceptional first book of short stories. Niamh Mac Cabe takes the reader deep into the textures and instabilities of memory, desire and loss, with well-judged humour and vivid depictions of landscape and character. Published today. @lilliputpress.bsky.social

Excited to receive this morning's bookpost: @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social's new collection Four Night Seas, of which I have read the first story and found it by turns cerebral, poetical, technological, elegiac, and also very funny. Out now from @lilliputpress.bsky.social

On 746 Books, I review Niamh MacCabe’s new short story collection, Four Night Seas, a work that is thematically inventive and plays with form and structure to striking and impressive effect. @lilliputpress.bsky.social @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social #readingirelandmonth26 746books.com/2026/03/14/f...

Happy launch day to FOUR NIGHT SEAS by Niamh Mac Cabe 🎉 🌊 🐕 Run to your local bookshop to pick up THE debut collection of the year from one of Ireland's most stunning writers (I mean, look at those endorsements!) or join us this evening from 5.30pm at the brilliant @libersligo.bsky.social

Debut collection of the year is launching TOMORROW - be there! 🌊🐕

Bean-spillage in today's Sunday Independent (Ireland)

Signed copies of THE LOCK-KEEPER’S WIFE by John MacKenna are now available across Dublin, and they would make a gorgeous gift for Mother’s Day if we do say so ourselves 💫 Signed copies are available from: 📘 @dubray-books.bsky.social Grafton St & Mary St 📕 @booksupstairs.bsky.social

Very much enjoyed writing an essay for this anthology.

The seminal account of a lost 1950's bohemian Dublin in a handsome new edition from @lilliputpress.bsky.social & a new introduction from Joseph O'Connor. Both melancholy and sharp, portraits of Behan, Kavanagh and Flann O'Brien . Dead as Doornails - Anthony Cronin. thebookshop.ie/anthony-cron...

The Lock-Keeper’s Wife by John MacKenna: Menopausal protagonist brought low by a lousy husband

Galway launch of A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 with Sarah Kenny of @kennysbookshop.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social

One Evening in Eden by John Moriarty 🌿 We are delighted to announce that One Evening in Eden is now available as an audiobook ✨️ Featuring over 13 hours of Moriarty in his own words, telling stories, discussing myths, philosophy and poetry, and featuring readings from Dr Martin Shaw,

Thanks, Books Ireland, and congratulations to all! FOUR NIGHT SEAS is launching 19th March in Liber Bookshop, Sligo at 17:30. I will be dressed in flowing robes and will be speaking in tongues for a portion of the launch. 🥕🧭