Irish Top Ten Week Ending 30th June 2012
Another stunning week for the Fifty Shade Trilogy which cleared just shy of 20,000 units over three titles. Amazingly, two authors are responsible for six of the top ten titles, surely an odd occurrence in any top ten chart. Perhaps most…
Briefly Noted | Trollope is star guest of Gleeson – Books, Entertainment – Independent.ie
The wonderful English novelist Joanna Trollope is the first guest author in the DLR Library Voices series which starts next month. Trollope is the author of 16 highly acclaimed best-selling novels, the latest of which, The Soldiers Wife, deals with…
Briefly Noted | Apple and digital publishing: A textbook manoeuvre | The Economist
But at the same time as Apple is working with incumbents, it is also encouraging others to attack them. Much like the App Store democratised the creation of software and blogging platforms spawned new media companies, the iBook Author and…
An Independent Christmas Selection
In a slight departure from past Christmas suggestions we’ve asked only one bookseller, Louisa Cameron from Raven Books, to suggest some books for the season, I think you’ll agree she knocks it out of the park. A sumptuous gift book, The…
Tom Duddy On Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize Shortlist
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…
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