Brrrrr. Here we are in a frosty, sparkly new year. Wondering what books are out this month? 📗First Flush lists all Irish-authored, Irish-published, & Irish-interest books each month. See what's new or browse the database!📗 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/new-year-new...

This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.

From David in Secondhand - rarely in & go very quickly - Vols 1 & 2 of the Collected Plays of Brian Friel - remember 20% off in the sale!

I present the #cat semi colon (Cc @bcdreyer.social)

Actually we are already live online!! Discount applied automatically at checkout!

As we have all enjoyed Christmas & are officially off today, our Sale will kick in tomorrow!

This message is aimed at me and I intend to pay attention to Floella as much now as ever.

Have just seen this, I think for the first time -

Zoélie has been busy in Secondhand finding treasure for you! Marzahn, Mon Amour signed by both author & translator - winner of the prestigious 2023 Dublin Literary Award - a major international prize celebrating translated fiction!

Here’s some more of my favourite books from 2025: Ghost Mountain by Rónán Hession, The Party by Tessa Hadley, Onr Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes, Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst, The Dream-Pedlars by Mark Dowsher, My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss, and Love Sex & Frankenstein by Caroline Lea.

From all of us here, we wish you & yours a joyful, prosperous, healthy 2026 ✨✨✨

I didn’t know that it had so many verses!

Peak

Time to put away my Christmas books - needless to say I was completely spoilt!

I read this early in the year & saved just for now!

One bag of books successfully transferred to @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social - if you're looking for 10 year old books on SQL or R then you are in luck!

Aw thank you! Its available from @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social if you want the paperback: chaptersbookstore.com/products/cha... (Pls ignore the 1-star review there - it’s by my mother’s 80yo neighbour who thought 1 star was the highest rating! 😳) You can also get it on Kindle.

Hope you all having a peaceful & relaxed day, however you spend it ❤️🎄❤️ I am about to explode from Maltesers 😊

Poem of the day … it made me smile!

This is a beauty found by David & his team in Secondhand!

First Editions of Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’ & ‘Rose Maddox’ in Secondhand today!

A signed copy of Nick Harkaways' 'The Gone-Away World' is in Secondhand!

Winter Solstice today … the shortest day, or longest night … depending on what tout are looking for. The Laughing Heart - Bukowski

A beautiful poetry box set of four of Seamus Heaney’s collections have arrived in Secondhand - on the shelves now! Included: - Death of a naturalist - Door into the Dark - Wintering Out - North

Signed copies!! ✍️📚 Others Like Me: The Lives of Women Without Children by Nicole Louie is part memoir, part a chorus of candid conversations with 14 women around the world, exploring what a full life can look like outside the script of motherhood.

Not just in stock: SIGNED copies of Hector Ó hEochagáin’s Irish language books are here ! 🎄📚 An Irish Word a Day + The Irish Words You Should Know
Last day for Click & Collect for l Christmas until the 23rd 🎅

Louise Glück for the day that is in it.

Opening hours for the next two weeks!!

Some housekeeping! Poor Postie is swamped at the moment!

Many years ago, when I was working at @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social an older gentleman came in and asked "where's the milk?" Me: we don't have any. Him: what kind of bookshop doesn't sell milk? Me: ...the normal kind. All the kinds. Him: Ah for fucksake. *leaves*

This surprised me & I agree … I’m okay

Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers. 1: 'Where's Dad?' 2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'

If you’re looking for a novel that is beautifully written and emotionally exacting, Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell deserves your attention. Quietly devastating. Signed copies now instore & online ❤️‍🩹

More ✍️joy! Children’s author Eilish Fisher signed copies of Fia and the Last Snow Deer (a lyrical prehistoric quest, great for ~9–12yr readers) & The Waters and the Wild (novel in verse about family, hope & grief) These are beautiful, ‘keep forever’ children’s books 💕

Signed copies of Deirdre O’Neill’s Remnants of Our Past are here! ✍️ A visual journey through social history through physical clues left in the landscape — from old hearths & village greens to forgotten everyday places. It shows how echoes of our ancestors & their daily lives root us to our past 📚

I know I’m bombarding you with books – sorry! 😅 We’re trying to respond to queries and also pre-empt the daily “do you have…?” when we’ve 300,000+ books in stock! Today’s Secondhand drop: Fighting Fantasy / Sorcery! (Steve Jackson + Ian Livingstone) 🎲📚

Something incredible happened yesterday… former Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín popped in, sat in the cold stockroom & signed EVERY copy we had of Long Island, Brooklyn, The Magician, A Long Winter, Ship in Full Sail - signed copies while they last ✍️📚✨

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If POOR was the book you pressed into everyone’s hands last year, this is next. 💚🖊️ Signed pre-orders now open for Dr Katriona O’Sullivan’s HUNGRY. Out 23 April 2026. chaptersbookstore.com/products/hun...

Chapters is made by readers 🧡 Thanks to Kelly @kelfogarty.bsky.social, Donal @donalfallon.bsky.social, (The Dublin Pub / Three Castles Burning), Warren Farrell (So Once Was I + TAP literacy), & not forgetting Willie, Ger & Kate. Your generous support & love of books means the world to us all ✨

Perfect timing as this arrived today, looking forward to a lovely Christmas read. 📚🎄 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social Super service from Bookshop of the year! 💚 #Booksky #Booksky📚💙

Huge congratulations to Joseph O’Connor on winning An Post Irish Book of the Year for The Ghosts of Rome 🧡📚 We’re ridiculously proud (and rearranging the display like it’s an Olympic sport). Copies instore + online! #AnPostBookAwards

Guinness World Records season is here - a very real obsession it appears! Secondhand is perfect for filling in the gaps of your collection or gifting a future fact-obsessed legend. Pop in and complete the shelf! 📚

The toddler is at an age where she has friends, but none of them have developed enough language to have conversations. Instead, they just get really close to each other's faces and smile and laugh at one another. Which I think is the loveliest thing in the whole world.

Books may well be the only true magic. Alice Hoffman

You can never go wrong giving a Christmas present of a book, and here’s a fabulous seasonal delight from #CarolineGraceCassidy who was signing copies in award winning #BookShopoftheYear @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social today. Signed books are a treasure & you can shop online at Chapters.📚😀 🤶 🎄

Came across Kaylin Weir on the other place (@kaylinwrites) & this caught me off guard… just in case anyone else needs to read it too … @kaylinwrites.bsky.social

Suffering from a lack of Christmas spirit, though in fairness, town on Saturday was lovely & made me smile. Seeing this book & remembering @sheilawriter.bsky.social describing sitting in the ‘good room’ as a child with a book & Lemon’s sweets really gave me the warm fuzzies 🎄📚🍬✨ #StorytellerSheila

Great news! Caroline Grace-Cassidy's A Merry Little Irish Christmas is back in stock 🎄 Caroline is popping in today to sign copies & she's even bringing extra copies to meet demand. Snap one up now as it is the loveliest festive read!

It’s a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book. Nella Last