It’s quite the week for Ross O’Carroll Kelly with a whopping 2,743 sales his book tops the charts nicely. It’s no bad week for his publisher either, as his stablemate, Simon Carswell’s Anglo Republic scored a remarkable 1,179. Irish authors hold up well (aided by a book written by a quartet or Irish women). Christmas read more »
Irish consumers can now purchase ebooks through Apple’s iBooks reading application. Irish readers can purchase Maeve Binchy (one of three features Bestselling Irish Authors) ebooks for as little as €1.99. Apple’s Irish customers can buy in Euro and directly through iBooks/iTunes Ireland rather than being forced to use the US store unlike the Amazon Kindle read more »
WH Smith is to open a store in the Arnotts department store in Dublin city centre. The opening will mark the first time the retailer has opened in a location outside of an airport in the republic, although the company does have a high street store in Belfast. The company’s career site is currently advertising the position of supervisor read more »
Irish author Tom Duddy is the only Irish poet to make the short list for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry with his debut poetry collection, The Hiding Place. The Hiding Place, which is published by Arlen House, has also recently been shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Award in the UK. The winner pf read more »
Cavan based quarterly arts & literature magazine The Moth has launched a new series of miniature poetry books. According to the magazine, ‘The moth editions are small (at a mere 10cm high and 32 pages long) but perfectly formed. The aim of the series is to present new work by up-and-coming writers and selected work read more »
Dublin based Independent publisher of fiction and non-fiction Lilliput Press has launched a first collection of ebooks. The publisher partnered with UK-based Faber Factory (a division of publisher Faber & Faber) to digitize and distribute a large number of its titles. The company’s collection will include literary classics, such as Dead as Doornails by Anthony Cronin and Cowslips read more »
An interesting top ten this week. For one thing, Penguin Ireland will be pleased with a fiction AND a non-fiction title sitting happily in the top five. What’s more along with Stockett’s, The Help, Penguin published titles make up 30% of titles in the top ten. The list of Irish authors is also pretty strong read more »