Booksales Down In Ireland
Nieslen has released figures on the Irish Consumer market for the year to date showing that book sales have fallen quite markedly since last year. According to the book information group the Irish Consumer Market (ICM) has seen year-to-date sales of €25.5m down a huge…
Industry Veterans Launch New Self Publishing Service
Industry veteran Chenile Keogh, founder of Y Books, is launching a new self publishing service, Kazoo, with Vanessa O’Loughlin of Writing.ie and the Inkwell Group. Another industry veteran, Robert Doran, will be Kazoo’s editorial director. According to the company, Kazoo aims…
Hughes & Hughes To Close Dundrum Store
Hughes & Hughes is to close its Dundrum Centre store on 10 March 2013. According to the company the ‘closure will in no way affect the other H&H branches, all of which will remain open.’ The cafe based in the…
Joint Winners Of Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize
The twenty-second Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize, worth £5000, has been awarded jointly to: Julieann Campbell for her book Setting the Truth Free: the inside story of the Bloody Sunday justice campaign (Liberties Press, 2012) and Douglas Murray for his book,…
Cork Based Scientist Wins Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize
This year’s Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize has been won by Tom Moore, with the poem ‘The Astronaut’ Moore, who lives in Midleton and is a lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry at University College Cork, said he was ‘delighted and…
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