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Bologna Book Fair – Online Edition -14th 17th June This new initiative is launched to run in parallel to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, with the aim of reaching a wider professional audience across the global publishing industry. Comprising a one-day industry conference, a rights training course, an Annual Literary Translation Forum, publisher pitches and a self-publishing conference BolognaBookPlus – organized in […]
Baby Teeth, a YA novel in verse and a study in queer desire and identity, by the multi-award-winning Meg Grehan, has been acquired by Matthew Parkinson-Bennett, Publisher of Little Island Books. World rights were acquired directly from the author. Baby Teeth will be published on 2 September 2021. Meg’s first book The Space Between won […]
A Short, Hopeful Guide to Climate Change Author Oisín McGann explains Climate Change science, and encourages young people to be part of positive change by getting involved in the global movement to fight humanity’s biggest challenge. Published in collaboration with Friends of the Earth Ireland, this might be the most eco-friendly children’s book ever published! […]
God Lives in Norway and Goes by Christie 21st Century Renaissance is delighted to announce the upcoming launch of a second collection by Arnie Yasinski, “God Lives in Norway and Goes by Christie” in June/July. Anchored in his present life in Ireland, Arnie reflects on his peripatetic past including the seminal moment of being in […]
Online launch for Declan Murphy’s The Spirit of the River – Thursday, 20 May, 18:30, Lilliput Press YouTube Join us for the official virtual launch of Declan Murphy’s new nature book, The Spirit of the River. Declan will be in conversation with Niall Hatch and Alan Gilsenan, talking about a variety of topics from nature and birdwatching to […]
CHANGE CAN BE GOOD… 500 years ago, a young Spanish solider’s leg was shattered by a cannonball in battle. His dreams of a glorious military career were also crushed that day and he spent over six months in a slow and painful recuperation back to health. However, that event changed the entire course of the […]
Lights on the Horizon eThentique Publishing is delighted to present ‘Lights on the Horizon’, a full-colour A4 hardback charity collection of poetry, prose and photography created on the island of Ireland. All proceeds go to frontline workers in the HSE and NHS Northern Ireland. Created by writers and publishing professionals in Ireland, it was endorsed […]
Ireland [1913] by Richard Bermann translated and edited by Leesa Wheatley and Florian Krobb Cork University Press are delighted to announce that the first, and only, English translation of Richard Bermann’s Ireland produced by Dr Leesa Wheatley, a professional translator and author of a major study on German travel writing on Ireland since 1780, and Professor Florian Krobb, School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, […]