Penguin Random House Will Have 22% Of Irish Market
Figures from Nielsen Bookscan make clear that the soon to be merged Penguin Random House group will have a huge share of the Irish Market. The combined group will include the Irish imprints of the two companies, Penguin Ireland and…
Irish Book Awards Shortlists Announced
Penguin Ireland was the big winner in yesterday’s announcement of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Shortlists. The company received a total of 10 nominations (and John Murray, its sister imprint another) twice that of any of its rivals….
Dublin Bookseller Wins The O'Brien Bookseller Of The Year Award
Gina O’Donnell from Hodges Figgis bookshop in Dublin has won the O’Brien Press Bookseller of the Year Award for 2011. The announcement and presentation were made by Ivan O’Brien, MD of the O’Brien Press, at the annual Booksellers Association Irish Branch annual dinner…
Irish Top Ten Week Ending 30/10/2010
A good week for Ryan Tubridy, Soundings and Dan Shanahan. Tubridy enters the top ten after just a week of sales and looks set to do well if he can maintain sales of that magnitude. Soundings re-enters the chart after a…
Published This Month – April 2010
The first edition of Published This Month, for April 2010, is below. I’ve added the Number One Children’s title for April, Derek Landy’s Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days (HarperCollins | £ 10.99 | PB | Children’s Fiction | April 2010) because,…
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