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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 9h

The BFI Film Classics collection has landed on our shelves & the covers are absolutely magnificent. Alien, Rosemary's Baby, The Silence of the Lambs, Pan's Labyrinth, Jaws, Eraserhead, Night of the Living Dead... books about the films that have traumatised generations of cinema audiences. Lovely!

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 10h

⚡ MOONAGE DAYDREAM: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust. Written by Bowie, photographed by Mick Rock. The 50th anniversary edition is magnificent! We have put them next to U2 ... not to compare ... the can all stand out in their own right!

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 10h

⚡ Ground Control to Chapters Secondhand! Two absolutely glorious David Bowie books have arrived and we've temporarily abandoned all useful work. 🧡 DAVID BOWIE IS INSIDE: costumes, photographs, art and reinvention. The visual world of Bowie in one spectacular volume!

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 10h

📚 A Roald Dahl I've never seen before! The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977). Seven wonderfully strange tales of greed, extraordinary abilities, cruelty and chance - for the older reader! And what a gloriously battered vintage Puffin cover! Who remembers this one?

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 13h

⚽ Glory nights, broken hearts and refereeing decisions nobody has forgiven! TONIGHT at 6.30pm we launch Glory Nights & Heartache, edited by Dermot Bolger, with RTÉ journalist and Rovers fan Samantha Libreri. 💚 FREE! Everyone welcome - just come along!

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 16h

BE PREPARED! ⚜️📚 We are ridiculously delighted with this vintage Scouting & Wolf Cub collection in Secondhand. Knots, badges, campfire songs, glorious illustrations and some beautiful old Ladybirds. Who remembers earning their badges? And can you still tie the knots? 💚

Four overlapping vintage Scouting booklets on a dark surface. Covers include Ideas for International Scouting, Artist & Handcraft, Your Movement and Cyclist Badge, featuring striking blue, red and green illustrations of Scouts, badges, painting and cycling.

Four vintage Cub and Scout booklets arranged diagonally: orange Cubs Be Our Shield, olive-green Safety Mountaineering, tan Knotting for Scouts and bright-green Country Code. The covers feature period illustrations of knots, countryside and outdoor activities.

Two vintage Scouting publications photographed on a dark background. A pale-green Patron Saints of the British Isles by R. F. Heath features a black-and-white illustration of two horses, while a larger Cub Scout Songbook has blue lettering and lively red cartoon drawings of singing Cubs.

Four vintage Ladybird hardback books arranged in a square: Understanding Maps, illustrated with countryside scenes and map symbols; Wild Life in Bri

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

🧙‍♀️ A little witchcraft on Parnell Street Saturday! The lovely Sarah Hannah Walsh called into Chapters to sign copies of her colourful Aggie Witchfinder. Signed copies are now in instore & online, just in time for spooky season! 🎃 Thank you, Sarah, for bringing a little magic to Chapters. 💚

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

🖤 Thank you to Sue Rainsford for visiting Chapters to sign 'From Out My Heart', her new Gothic novel from Lilliput Press. Edgar Allan Poe, spirit possession, desire and a deeply unsettling mystery - just the thing for October! Signed copies instore & online now! 📚

Sue Rainsford, wearing a beige roll-neck jumper and jeans, leans over a glass display cabinet to sign a copy of her novel From Out My Heart at Chapters Bookstore in Dublin. A stack of copies rests beside her, with shelves of Irish fiction stretching into the background. Afternoon sunlight illuminates the book and her hands.

Irish novelist Sue Rainsford stands in Chapters Bookstore holding a signed copy of her new novel From Out My Heart, with its striking black cover and bright green lettering. She wears a beige jumper, blue jeans and white trainers. Behind her are shelves of bestselling books and Chapters recommendations, with displays of other Irish titles in the foreground.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“In a pickle”, “wild-goose chase”, “heart of gold”. Shakespeare's fingerprints are all over the English language. This magnificent, slightly battered Complete Works has arrived in Secondhand - the dust jacket has survived a tragedy or two, but we think that adds character. 📚

Photograph of a large vintage hardback edition of The Complete Works of Shakespeare, standing on a display stand in Chapters Bookstore, Dublin. Its black dust jacket features decorative red and gold borders, a portrait of William Shakespeare inside an oval laurel wreath and large gold lettering. The spine and edges of the jacket are visibly worn and torn, with a frayed fabric bookmark hanging from the bottom. Blurred bookshelves and displays fill the background.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

🍄🌿 Secondhand delights! First published in 1931, Maud Grieve's A Modern Herbal explores over 800 plants, their folklore, history and traditional uses. Beautiful botanical illustrations, some alarming old remedies and a glorious cover. A little treasure on our Secondhand shelves! 📚

A cream paperback copy of A Modern Herbal by Mrs M. Grieve, edited by Mrs C. F. Leyel. The cover features colourful, whimsical illustrations of mushrooms, flowers, fruits, berries and botanical specimens. The book is held by someone wearing a blue knitted jumper.

An open, slightly yellowed book showing an intricate black-and-white botanical illustration of elecampane (Inula helenium), with its large flower head, leaves and stems. The facing page contains detailed descriptions of the plant's history and traditional uses.

An open copy of A Modern Herbal displaying a detailed botanical illustration of ginger (Zingiber officinale), including its distinctive knobbly rhizome, stems and flowering structures. The opposite page contains entries on golden seal and ginger.

Two botanical illustrations showing white oriental hellebore (Helleborus orientalis) and black stinking hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with delicate flowers, foliage and seed structures. The facing page contains densely printed historical botanical information.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Before memes, there was MAD! 🤪 Vintage American MAD paperbacks & British Laugh and Humour Variety magazines have landed in Secondhand. Satire, terrible puns, cheeky cartoons and jokes that haven't all aged gracefully. A little history of making people laugh.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

👻 A complete 13-book Scream Street box set has appeared in Chapters Secondhand! Tommy Donbavand's gloriously funny, spooky adventures follow a werewolf, a vampire & a mummy through a neighbourhood full of monsters. A wonderful nostalgic find, just in time for Halloween! 🎃📚

A hand in a pale blue knitted sleeve holds a complete 13-book Scream Street box set by Tommy Donbavand inside Chapters Bookstore. The illustrated slipcase features a black silhouette of a spooky town against a blue background, green slime, large red lettering and miniature images of the individual book covers. Shelves and tables of books fill the background.

Another view of the secondhand Scream Street box set showing the opposite side of the illustrated slipcase. Three cartoon supernatural characters, including a mummy, appear beneath the red Scream Street title. The box shows some wear around the corners and edges, with Chapters' book-filled shelves visible behind it.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

🧡 Oh, these are BEAUTIFUL! SIGNED exclusive editions of Elif Shafak's new novel, In One Brief Moment All Eternity. A reimagining of Flaubert & Madame Bovary, giving voice to the women history overlooked. Gold detailing & gorgeous orange cover - I want - out on Thursday!

Close-up of an exclusive signed edition of Elif Shafak's In One Brief Moment All Eternity displayed upright on a table of matching copies at Chapters Bookstore. The vivid orange cover features elaborate purple and gold botanical illustrations, gold lettering, an exclusive-edition seal and a circular Chapters special-price sticker reading €17.99. Bookshelves are visible in the background.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Meet INKY! 👻 Scaly, spiky, smelly & created by our young creepy, creature makers yesterday! Oisín McGann had children utterly engrossed in drawing & learning how illustrations tell stories. FREE workshop again Sat 17 Oct, 11–12.30. Eventbrite or DM! Thanks @dublincityoflit.bsky.social 🧡

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is one of those bits of Irish history that sounds suspiciously like someone has written a film. Six Fenian prisoners. Fremantle Prison. An American whaling ship. A 28-hour escape through storm & surf. Historian Michael B. Barry popped in to sign Catalpa. Copies now instore & online! 💚📚

Three photographs of Irish historian and author Michael B. Barry visiting Chapters Bookstore Dublin with his new book Catalpa: The Epic Story of the Greatest Prison Rescue in Irish History.

In the first he stands smiling outside the Chapters Parnell Street shopfront holding the book beneath the Bookshop of the Year 2025 signage. In the second he smiles inside the shop, holding Catalpa in front of the Chapters bookshelves.

In the third he is seated at a table signing copies, with stacks of the book beside him ready for Chapters readers.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I absolutely love Martina Devlin's writing. Edith, Charlotte & now Glorious Monsters, taking us into Mary Shelley's extraordinary world. How lovely to have Martina pop in to sign copies on her way to teach at the Irish Writers Centre. Ireland really is a remarkable little literary island. 💚📚

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🏆 Lovely to welcome Siobhán Doyle, a cultural historian, curator at the National Museum of Ireland & author of an An Post Irish Book Award winner, A History of the GAA in 100 Objects, to Chapters to sign copies of her latest book - Irish Sport in 100 Objects! @merrionpress.bsky.social

Siobhán Doyle smiles at the camera while holding two copies of Irish Sport in 100 Objects inside Chapters Bookstore. More copies are stacked on the counter in the foreground. The spacious bookshop, its shelves of colourful books and the CHAPTERS BOOKSTORE wall lettering are visible behind her.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Cassie Stokes came in to sign Best of Ireland and discovered the less glamorous side of publishing: several hundred hardbacks & a Sharpie! 😂 We think this will be HUGE for Christmas! 500+ tried & tested recs across all 32 counties. Less “tick off the sights”, more go, sit, meet & experience!

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Someone appears to have colour-coordinated our Secondhand poetry shelves with October! Frost, Blake, Lawrence, German & Italian verse, all dressed in the most glorious vintage Penguin covers Burnt orange, faded purple, beautiful patterns and decades of reading history. Honestly, just LOOK at them

Close-up of five vintage Penguin poetry paperbacks standing on a black shelf in Chapters Bookstore. The books include German and Italian verse anthologies, D. H. Lawrence's Selected Poems, Robert Frost's selected poetry and William Blake. Their decorative covers feature warm orange, brown, cream and purple patterns, creating a distinctly autumnal display. The books show signs of age and use.

Five secondhand Penguin poetry books arranged upright against a dark bookshelf. Two orange-patterned anthologies of German and Italian verse sit beside a purple-covered D. H. Lawrence collection, a botanical orange and blue Robert Frost edition and a marbled orange and grey William Blake volume. The vintage typography, decorative designs and gently worn covers give the display a warm autumnal character.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

What a night! 📚🏆 We were delighted to host and sponsor the 10th anniversary CAP Awards on Friday, celebrating Ireland's independently published authors while supporting Aware. Huge congratulations to everyone involved and special thanks to the wonderful Carolann Copland!

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Why is it so difficult to walk across the Irish countryside? Lovely to welcome @timhannigan.bsky.social to Chapters to sign The Pathless Land, his 678km journey exploring Ireland's lost footpaths, land history and belonging. Thank you, Tim! 💚 @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🧩 As the evenings draw in, we're bringing back the joy of the jigsaw! Our tables are overflowing with gorgeous literary puzzles. Remember when everyone had a jigsaw board on the dining table? Corners first, edges next, 1,000 pieces a major achievement! Feeling very nostalgic for cosy evenings!

A large display of illustrated jigsaw puzzles in Chapters Bookstore, with colourful boxes stacked in rows. Titles include The World of the Brontës, James Joyce, Hercule Poirot, Terry Pratchett, Miss Marple, Little Women, Sherlock Holmes, Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz and Ken Follett's Kingsbridge. The bookshop's shelves and central book tables are visible behind the display.

A colourful display of literary jigsaw puzzles stacked across black tables in Chapters Bookstore, Dublin. Illustrated 1,000-piece puzzles include The World of Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Dracula, Frankenstein, the Romantics, Maya Angelou and Grimm's Fairy Tales. Tall bookshelves labelled Irish Fiction fill the background.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Spent yesterday watching Malory Towers with my daughter, so Sheena Wilkinson calling in to sign her Fernside books feels wonderfully appropriate! Boarding-school stories really do cross generations. Midnight feasts, friendships, mischief and rebellion. Signed copies now instore & online! 📚❤️

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

DIVERGENT FANS! 💜 Veronica Roth's THE SIXTH FACTION is here & would you LOOK at those sprayed edges?! Pink, violet, blue and birds in flight. Absolutely gorgeous. A new, alternate-universe reimagining of the Divergent series AND a beautiful special edition!

Cover and edges: Deluxe hardback edition of The Sixth Faction by Veronica Roth, showing a dramatic blue, black and vivid pink dystopian cityscape with figures standing on a rooftop. A red Chapters special-price sticker reads €22.99. Beside the cover, two copies display their decorative pastel sprayed edges featuring birds in flight.

Sprayed edges: Three copies of Veronica Roth's The Sixth Faction photographed with their fore-edges facing upwards. The elaborate digitally printed edges feature swirling pastel pink, lavender and icy blue artwork with silhouettes of black birds flying across the design. Two copies of the book's dark blue and magenta dust jacket are partially visible beneath them.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Eva Pau arrived in Ireland at just one month old & grew up playing in the aisles of her family’s Asia Market in Dublin - now she has written her first cookbook, with 80 approachable recipes from across Asia. Preorder & you could win a hamper of Eva’s favourite Asian snacks and drinks!

Bright red promotional graphic for Eva Pau’s Asian Cookbook. The book cover, featuring Eva holding a bowl and chopsticks, is surrounded by colourful packets, bowls and cans of Asian snacks and drinks. Gold text reads: “Preorder & win a hamper of Eva’s favourite Asian snacks & drinks.”

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Some editions may cause alarming levels of nostalgia ... An Abundance of Katherines I think was my favourite 💕💕

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

John Green is having a rather wonderful moment with his adult writing, so a reminder that Secondhand currently has LOTS of his YA 📚 Paper Towns, Turtles All the Way Down, An Abundance of Katherines, Let It Snow, The Fault in Our Stars all snug in the same little unit.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It has been a VERY good few weeks for Folio Society books in Secondhand. 📚 Chaucer, Tacitus, Gibbon, Burke, Josephus, Shakespeare, Restoration London, the Ottoman Empire, Arab history, Greek myths… and this is only a selection. Beautiful books are dangerous things in a bookshop.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Rock ’n’ roll came calling! 🎸 Dónal Gallagher popped in to sign Edged in Blue, his account of life with his brother Rory, from Irish showbands to the world’s stages - touring adventures, music history and a brother’s perspective. Signed copies instore & online 💚🎸

Dónal Gallagher smiles outside Chapters Bookstore on a sunny day, holding his book, Edged in Blue: A Rock ’n’ Roll Odyssey with Rory Gallagher. He wears an olive-green jacket and trousers. The green shopfront displays Chapters’ name and Bookshop of the Year 2025 signage.

Dónal Gallagher leans over a table inside Chapters, signing the title page of Edged in Blue with a blue pen. Copies of the book and gold signed-copy stickers sit beside him, with book displays and the bright shop entrance in the background.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

RESEARCHERS, LOOK OUT 👀 A huge stack of Dublin Historical Record back issues has just landed! Published by the Old Dublin Society since 1938, these are a treasure trove of properly researched history - trams, norse Dublin, railways, old streets, churches, printers, policing, maps - just to start!

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’ve just noticed The Woodlanders peeping in from the corner of this photo. It has a very special place in my heart - it was the first classic I read that genuinely shifted how I saw the world & probably the first time I understood what a novel could really do. So quietly beautiful.

A close-up of a shelf of Folio Society books, mostly in slipcases. Titles include English Eccentrics, Nelson and Emma, My Life and Times and French Short Stories. At the far right, partly hidden, is Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders in a brown slipcase.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some editions may cause alarming levels of nostalgia ... An Abundance of Katherines I think was my favourite 💕💕

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love these books - they were a secret language between me, my dad, my brother & my brother's friends - I feel ridiculously nostalgic seeing them again. Lucky whoever finds them in Secondhand - hope you enjoy the fish!

Angled view of Douglas Adams’ five-book Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy box set, standing on piles of secondhand books at Chapters. The bright yellow slipcase displays the series title, a blue towel and a “42 anniversary collection” badge. All five dark blue book spines are visible.

Front view of the yellow Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy slipcase by Douglas Adams, resting on stacked secondhand books. Dark blue lettering reads “The Complete Collection”, with a circular “42 anniversary collection” badge above and a rolled blue towel pictured below.

Close-up of the five numbered Douglas Adams paperbacks in their slipcase: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; and Mostly Harmless. Their dark blue spines have colourful lettering and Pan logos, with stacks of books and the shop interior blurred behind them.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Meet Iris: dedicated reader, page holder & devoted cuddler of her bunny. 🐾📚 Please show us your bookshop dogs and cats - the news is depressing, we need cheering up. Post a photo, tag Chapters and tell us their name. Sitting on the book counts. 🐈🐕

A grey dog in a striped jumper lies on a sofa beside an open book, resting one paw across its pages and looking towards the camera.

Iris, a grey dog in a striped jumper, curls up against a fluffy white toy bunny on a sofa. A bright pink copy of Wrong Women is propped up beside her.

Iris, a grey dog, sits on a sofa surrounded by books, including The Bell Jar and The New Age of Sexism. One ear is perked up as she looks off to the side.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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