Cast your VOTE in this year's #IrishBookAwards @irishbookawards.bsky.social celebrating the best Irish writing in 2025 in 19 categories. See tinyurl.com/5e5wpx2e Closes 16 Nov, winners revealed 27 Nov. Pictured are a selection of the fiction & non-fiction shortlistees 💚📚🏆 #APIBA #StoriesMakeUs

You are invited to VOTE in the #IrishBookAwards @irishbookawards.bsky.social celebrating the very best of Irish writing in 2025 in 19 categories. See tinyurl.com/5e5wpx2e Closes 16 Nov, winners revealed 27 Nov. Pictured are the children's & YA shortlistees 💚📚🏆 #APIBA #StoriesMakeUs #ChildrensBooks

Best of luck to the 6 shortlisted for @thebookerprizes.com: Flashlight by #SusanChoi Audition by #KatieKitamura The Loneliness of Sonia & Sunny by #KiranDesai The Rest of Our Lives by #BenjaminMarkovits The Land in Winter by #AndrewMiller & Flesh by #DavidSzalay. Revealed 10 Nov #BookerPrize2025💚📚🏆

#Derry buzzing with the #ONeillsFoyleCup kicking off this morn with 950 global football teams, boys & girls ages 6-18yrs. The #FoyleCup energy & excitement was electric! Thought I’d team up & celebrate with themed windows. Inside there’s a pitch full of #books! #FoyleCup2025 #ONeillsFoyleCup ⚽️📚🏆

For your amusement… ahead of event in award-winning Little Acorns Bookshop in Derry tonight 🙂 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002fwfp

Pure excited about this eve’s #Derry Book Launch of #PureGold - Memorable Conversations with Remarkable People by author, musician & historian #EamonCarr in chat with fellow author & musician #ColumArbuckle this eve, Thurs 17 July 7pm. Tickets: tinyurl.com/nk8kcn6d 📚🎶💚 Published by #MerrionPress

Absolutely honoured to win the @derryjournal.com Business Person of the Year 2025, sponsored by #CalorDirect & in such esteemed company. Thank-you so much to all who keep us small local businesses thriving & surviving. Up #Donegal & #Derry 📚💚x

Pure lured to catch the #Dublin book launch in #BooksUpstairs of #PureGold- Memorable Conversations with Remarkable People by the legend - #EamonCarr author, historian, journalist & member of #Horslips. Published by #MerrionPress Copies available @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social #Derry📚💚🎶

It's been far too long since I was in Derry - I can't wait to go to @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social this week and chat about Barren with the amazing Sue Divin @suedivinwriter.bsky.social If you're in the Northwest, please pop in to say hello! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... #derry #booksky

Congratulations to #Derry author @brianmcgilloway.bsky.social with his highly-anticipated latest #crime novel #TheOneYouLeastSuspect published by #Constable @littlebrown.bsky.social Signed copies available from @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social 📚💚 #SupportLocal #IrishBooks #BooksAreMyBag

And the sun shone on for the #DerryJazzFestival 1-5 May 2025. The music, the magic, the mood & a little dancing, singing, laughing & more. Place is buzzing, so tune in or switch on to some jazzy #books too from #LittleAcornsBookstore #Derry 📚💚🎼🎺🎹🎷🎻💃🎊

@poetryireland.bsky.social & #UlsterUniversity event with #JapaFire Poetry Anthology Book Launch featuring #NandiJola & others (virtual) in #LittleAcornsBookstore Thurs 1st May 6:30pm. All welcome. Free entry. Booking essential: tinyurl.com/5543fe2d 📚💚 Books for sale/signing #PoetryDayIRL #Derry

📚Wed 23 April is #WorldBookNight - the perfect chance to celebrate books & reading; alone or together. ⏰ From 7-8pm this eve, all are welcome to join in the nationwide #ReadingHour & share! See the fab #TheReadingAgency 2025 #QuickReads titles for just £1 from participating #bookshops📖💚☕️ #Derry

Special eve with the internationally-revered & respected musician #KeithDonald who began his musical journey age 9 & still has that magic 7 decades later. Keith spoiled us with stories & live music at the #Derry book launch of his memoir #MusicAndMayhem published by @lilliputpress.bsky.social 📚💚🎷1/4

Despite the rain, we'd a cracking' #EasterMonday looking for the #GoldenDuck helped by #ScoobyDoo #PeterRabbit #PaddingtonBear #PoppyandSam. Over 35 little choc eggs, 10 little ducks & loads of stickers & #GuessHowMuchILoveYou Hare ears gifted to new homes, plus #Books! 📚💚🐣 #Derry

One of my most cherished novels, (and eras) #TheGreatGatsby by #FScottFitzgerald is 100 years old today - 10 April 1925. What a magnificent, stunning, sparkling work; the jazz, the summer heat, decadence, deceit, love, despair, wealth, greed, loss... Tremendous! Happy Birthday, old sport 💚🎺 🥂📚

Léigh is Pléigh // Irish Book Group - #GeansaitheMóra le #GearóidínNicCárthaighin with #CultúrlannUíChanáin Sat 5 March 1pm. #Doire #Derry All welcome. Free admission. Light refreshments 📚💚

All welcome to award-winning poet #MartinMalone's #Derry book launch of #SONNETSFORMYMOTHERASLEAR published by #MariscatPress. Fri 28 March 7pm. Booking ESSENTIAL See: tinyurl.com/5cj7c3pv Light refreshments available 📚 1/2

Fascinating & sincere insight into the research & writing of #TheNextOneIsForYou A True Story of Guns, Country & the IRA's Secret American Army by award-winning journalist #AliWatkins @nytimes.com at the #Derry #BookLaunch. Publisher #IconBooks. Delighted Ali signed our #LegenDerryWritersChair!📚💚

It's our 14th #Birthday today! Come join us for books, goodie bags & cake as a wee thank-you for all your support, loyalty & friendship! From 100 books to 70K & 7 different moves, we're still here! 📚💚🥳 #SupportLocal #ChooseBookshops #Derry #thankyou #lovebooks 🎉

Thanks for the share @bigbeardedbookseller.com BUT the #TypewriterMuseum is still in creation - hopefully ready by mid-2025. I've moved seven times, as a bookshop, in 13 years, so I'm finally in my 'forever home' which will have a room all of its own to showcase over 150 typewriters. Can't wait! 📚💚🖨️

Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist. Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025

Jennifer Johnston obituary: Writer who combined brevity with razor-sharp wisdom www.irishtimes.com/obituaries/2...

Sad to hear of the passing of the formidable, brilliant author #JenniferJohnston who lived in #Derry & who I got to know & meet many times. She's left more than #ShadowsonourSkin on Irish Literature, women's lib & the North. My thoughts with all her family & friends 💚📚x

Congratulations to our Independent Bookshop of the Year Finalists: Island of Ireland 🤩 Bridge Books, Little Acorns Bookstore, Tales for Tadpoles, Tertulia Bookshop and The Secret Bookshelf! See the full list of finalists 👉 buff.ly/4b0bBbD #BookSky

There has been a record number of submissions for The #BritishBookAwards 2025 Independent Bookshop of the Year Award, with 72 independent bookshops selected as finalists 👇 #BookSky #Nibbies

Magical night with best-selling & award-winning author @irishrainforest.bsky.social in chat with TV presenter & broadcaster #JoeMahon part of #NIScienceFest in #Derry. Signed books #AnIrishAtlanticRainforest & #TheMagicOfAnIrishRainforest. Publisher #HachetteIreland #LegenDerryWritersChair📚💚🌳

All welcome to the #DerryRadicalBookfair, - one of the largest radical gatherings on the island: literature & merchandise, talks & workshops. Sat 1st Feb, Pilot's Row, Rossville St, #Derry, 12pm- 5pm. Literature & info plus a host of social justice campaigns. Food onsite. #BloodySunday #Derry

Lovely evening at the #Derry #BookLaunch of The #SDLP, Politics and Peace - The #MarkDurkan Interviews by #GrahamSpencer published by #PeterLangOxford. Pictured are Mark & Graham. Supported by the #JohnandPatHumeFoundation Signed copies now available from @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social #NIreland 📚🕊️

All welcome to the #booklaunch of The #SDLP, Politics and Peace - The #MarkDurkan Interviews by #GrahamSpencer published by #PeterLangPublishers in the #Guildhall #Derry Wed 29 Jan 4:30pm. #HumeFoundation @mohume.bsky.social @sdlp.bsky.social 📚

Our turn now for #StormÉowyn in #Derry, furious kick from 8:35am, whistling & whipping through this old creaky house; chimney howling, Cathedral gates clanking. Eerily exciting. Thankfully it's morn time. Hope folks rest of Ireland got through the night OK. Stay safe out there & please take care 💨

#LittleAcornsBookstore will be closed Fri 24 Jan due to the upcoming #StormÉowyn but hope to reopen around 2pm, depending on severity. Please keep safe, warm & check in on your neighbours. Cosy up with a good book, blanket, cuppa & take care out there 📚💚🥰 #Derry #NIreland #ReadBooks #LoveReading

Well done #Brexit with your #GPSR rules! Killing, punishing & destroying small businesses, sole traders & self-employed creatives who rely on trading to/fromUK to #NIreland The risk of getting fined thousands of £. Have had 4 indie orders cancelled this morn (gifts, stationery) through no choice 😡🇪🇺

Exceedingly chuffed by this. (Especially coming from @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social , An Post Irish Book Awards' Bookshop Of The Year 2024!) #Booksky📚 #SpéirGorm @gaiabanks.bsky.social

Been a busy, booky Christmas (thanks, folks!) & start to New Year so forgive my silence online. The snow is coming, I've got the flu, will keep on going, tax returns are due... The shelves are lovely, dark & deep, but I have promises to sort & keep & miles of books before I sleep...💚📚 #Derry

Wishing all a very happy, peaceful & magical Christmas. Thanks for visiting, shopping & supporting local. Been an amazing yet tough year but what a year! Keeping sparks alive: friends, booksellers, authors, illustrators, publishers, distributors, posties & couriers. Much love, light & books 📚💚 🎁🕊️x

Just some of the wonderful local authors with their #books, smiles & signatures! Perfect gifts this #Christmas from #Derry authors Colleen Beattie with children's picture book #TheChristmasTree, Jack Walsh with #TheDerryWimmelBook & Brendan Duddy with his memoir & biography of his relative. 1/2 📚💚🎁

It's beginning to #book a lot like #Christmas & what beautiful, bold, exciting & magical books I have in stock - all genres for all ages & just waiting to find new homes. Plus books are so much easier to gift wrap! 📚💚🎁 #SupportLocal #Bookshops #Derry #BooksAreMyBag

Cherish my little fly-by #Dublin trips (twice in 2 weeks) friends, books, #bookshops; street lights, scents, atmosphere, seasonal spirit; caramel lattes spoil & child-like awe at #Christmas windows. Inspired & magically fired! @gutterbookshop.bsky.social #ConnollyBooks #IrishBookshops 📚💚 1/4

Oh wow! It's been a true whirlwind 48 hours - still on a massive high. Thank-you SO SO MUCH to #AnPost #AnPostIrishBookAwards #BooksellingIreland & to all those who voted; who write, draw, make, champion, sell, read, love books. What an honour to be part of your story! Photos soon! 💚📚😍 #APIBA #Derry

Special night of chat, creativity, craic & more with the prolific author, playwright, screenwriter #DaveDuggan joined by #Derry filmmaker #LouiseGallagher of #BlueLights. Packed to the rafters for #FoyleFilmFestival at the #NerveCentre #Derry for the #JourneyWork book launch & film screenings 1/3

Well, I certainly won't be stocking any AI-slush as I'm sure many other walk-in bookshops will. We prefer authentic, original, creative, professional, personable, genuine & beautiful works of art in word & image created by humans. May these AI #Spines be cracked & cordoned, disrupted & dumped 💚📚

Because there are just so many amazing writers and publications in Ireland we had to have a spillover starter pack! Starter pack 1: go.bsky.app/M7713mj Starter pack II: go.bsky.app/EvJAiPv

All welcome to the book launch of award-winning author #DaveDuggan with his latest memoir #JourneyWork - A Creative Life published by #NerveCentre & part of #FoyleFilmFestival in conversation with filmmaker #LouiseGallagher Mon 25 Nov 7pm #NerveCentre #Derry. Includes film & booksigning 📚💚🎞️

Has there been a #StarterPack initiated for #IrishBookshops #IrishPublishers and/or #IrishAuthors - as in the island of #Ireland yet? I've recently joined & discovering very few so far. Happy to follow! 📚💚

#TheBooksellersGift by @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social the perfect cosy read full of love & friendship, hugs & hardships, the power of small-town community compassion, spirit & connection. Espec touched as Felicity was initially inspired by the flood we had 3 days before Christmas Dec'22. What a gift!📚💚💕🎁

What an hour to have the wonderful @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social in #Derry with her best-selling gorgeous #TheBooksellersGift - a warm magical hug of a love letter to booksellers, small-town communities, friendship & much more. Signed copies @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social Publisher #HachetteIreland 💚📚🎁

Such a lovely group for the last #LéighisPléigh #IrishBookGroup with the wonderful #RéaltánNíLeannáin scríbhneoir /writer-in-residence with #CultúrlannUíChanáin #Doire #Derry Not just of great benefit, interest & fun for all involved but for me too returning to the Irish Lang after 30 years! GRMA 💚📚