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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 5h

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 · 19h

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 · 20h

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 · 21h

The Christmas books are arriving - but our reading-year favourites still deserve a cheer! 💚 Thank you to Tanya Farrelly for signing The Marionette and the Maestro again. Arlen House’s collection of gothic, fantastical tales takes us into old Europe & it is a delight!

Tanya Farrelly smiles while holding The Marionette and the Maestro beneath the large Chapters Bookstore sign, surrounded by shelves and tables of books.
Tanya Farrelly 3.jpg: The Marionette and the Maestro by Tanya Farrelly displayed on the glass counter at Chapters. Its illustrated cover shows colourful, crooked European buildings beneath a blue sky, with a gold Chapters Recommended sticker.

The Marionette and the Maestro by Tanya Farrelly displayed on the glass counter at Chapters. Its illustrated cover shows colourful, crooked European buildings beneath a blue sky, with a gold Chapters Recommended sticker.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 23h

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 · 06/10/2026

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 · 06/10/2026

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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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

👩‍🎓🪙 Celebrated Irish author and UCD alumna Maeve Binchy has been honoured with a new €15 commemorative coin celebrating her enduring contribution to Irish literature and impact on readers around the world.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oops! We might have made a bit of a mess instore tonight … so we will be opening at 10am tomorrow to give us some time to tidy up!

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Gods, goddesses & witches at the pen display - a perfectly normal day in Chapters. ✨ Thank you to Ellen Ryan for popping in to sign books! They Called Us Witch explores ten women labelled as witches throughout history. Stunning illustrations by Imogen Oh & Anastasia Stefurak

Ellen Ryan smiles behind the glass counter at Chapters Bookstore while signing a copy of Gods Don’t Cry. Copies of her books are stacked around her, with They Called Us Witch standing prominently in the foreground. Book-filled shelves and the large Chapters Bookstore wall sign appear behind her.

A hardback copy of They Called Us Witch by Ellen Ryan stands on a glass counter at Chapters. Its black and deep red cover features gold lettering, twisting branches, snakes and an antlered animal skull above a red-haired figure. A red Chapters price sticker reads €22.99 and a gold sticker identifies it as a signed copy.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our latest ghost just wants a nap. Relatable. 👻 Erika McGann & Clive McFarland visited to sign Nowhere for a Ghost to Sleep, from The O’Brien Press: a funny, tender picture book about a sleepy ghost finding somewhere to belong. Signed copies, with ghost drawings, in store! 💚

Erika McGann and Clive McFarland stand beneath the Chapters Bookstore sign, smiling and holding copies of Nowhere for a Ghost to Sleep. Bookshelves and display tables fill the background.

An open copy of Nowhere for a Ghost to Sleep, showing a gold handwritten dedication and signature beside a colourful flower, with a small white drawing of a smiling ghost in a hat and Clive McFarland’s signature below.

Erika McGann and Clive McFarland lean over a glass display counter at Chapters, signing copies of Nowhere for a Ghost to Sleep. More copies are stacked beside them.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They are so good - books that connected their readers, so you felt part of something.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s 186 years to the day since a man called Thomas O’Conor wrote a report about a stone figure on a church in Kiltinane, County Tipperary. This would be unremarkable were it not for what the statue looked like, because this was the first written use of the term Sheela-na-gig

The Kiltinane churchSheela Na Gig – a strange, naked, stone female figure, with one hand raised, and the other holding open her vulva

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Chris @seamripper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Grover and Scooter were helping me a couple of weekends ago. Little brother thinks books are yummy.

Two fuzzy white dogs, one BIG and one smoll, are posing with the book A Killer Plot by EC Nevin

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nobberigines get everywhere - even the pretend ones Mick 😂 A brilliant night launching Justine Stafford’s The Irish Art of It’ll Be Grand. Comedy, books and neighbouring-parish loyalties. Sorry we didn’t have Dudley with a sash, Justine. Shure we’ll be grand. 💚

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trying to explain a Sheela na gig to anyone not Irish is always an experience… 😳

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're being spoilt with limited editions today: Heated Rivalry has arrived too! Black and gold cover, gilded edges and a Shane and Ilya sunset illustration inside. We’ve opened it an entirely professional number of times. Instore and online now! 🏒

Front cover: A hand holds the limited edition of Rachel Reid’s Heated Rivalry against a white brick wall. The black cover has large gold lettering, embossed hockey imagery and a Chapters €19.99 price sticker.

Inside illustration: The book is opened to reveal a full-colour illustration of Shane and Ilya sitting close together beside the water at sunset, their hands touching. The inside jacket flap carries the book’s description.

Gilded edges: Side view of Heated Rivalry held against a white brick wall, showing its reflective gold page edges beside the black and gold cover.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

They arrived. They actually arrived! Our copies of Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarros are here & just look at them! The silvery cover, the illustrated endpapers, the dragons inside. We’ve spent an entirely reasonable amount of time opening one to show each other the pictures.

A display of Onyx Storm: Threshing Day by Rebecca Yarros in Chapters Bookstore. Silver hardbacks are stacked across a round table, with one copy standing upright to show its illustrated cover.

An open copy of Threshing Day shows a full-colour illustration spread. Dragons of different colours gather on either side of a narrow path through a mountainous landscape.

A page inside Threshing Day features a full-colour illustration of a green dragon perched on a rocky ledge beneath a blue sky.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This Black History Month, we are publishing the first book for young children to celebrate Black Irish identity. Please join Little Island, Black and Irish, @leondiop.bsky.social and @enemaku.bsky.social at @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social on 20 October for the launch of BLACK & IRISH: AWESOME ICONS!

Launch invitation:

Join us to celebrate...
LEON DIOP & GRACE ENEMAKU'S
BOOK LAUNCH
Tuesday 20th October from 6.30pm
Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, Dublin 1

Cover of book; photos of Leon and Grace; logos of Little Island and Black and Irish

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It doesn't get much more meta that the people who have just made a pop culture moments (are living a pop culture moment) talking about pop culture moments! Tickets are free - but there is only so much room left! www.eventbrite.ie/e/... 2/2

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Pop Culchie: Páraic Kerrigan in Conversation With Vicki Notaro at Chapters

Irish pop culture goes under the lens! Join author, academic & current Traitors Ireland player Páraic Kerrigan for the launch of Pop Culchie

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It just keeps on getting better! Páraic Kerrigan’s Pop Culchie panel has Carla Geary, Janet Takuz & David Moran, all from The Traitors Ireland, with pop culture obsessive & novelist Vicki Notaro moderating. A conversation about the TV moments that bring Ireland together! 1/2

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reading is inexpensive entertainment. Buying every book that catches your eye is a slightly different economic model, but the underlying principle remains sound ... at least that is what I keep telling myself 😊

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We’re breaking the shop again. Yes, there are still bits from the last round to finish, but we found far more space than expected behind the counter, under the stairs & couldn’t leave it alone. What’s going in? A surprise! Please bear with us for a while - it will be worth it! 🔨📚

Inside Chapters Bookstore during refurbishment. Two workers stand beside partly assembled black shelving beneath the staircase, with a ladder, tools and building materials on the floor. Tables of books remain in the foreground.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Contentious opinion ... what do we think? Is it revisiting an old friend, conducting further research or wasting time that could be spent on reading something new?

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Louise Kennedy came in to sign Stations & I missed her because of family commitments. Possibly for the best: I’d have embarrassed myself fawning. Thank you, Louise. I wrote a long read about this extraordinary book, but my clearest thought remains: read it. Signed copies are in store.

Outside Chapters: Louise Kennedy stands on the pavement outside Chapters Bookstore, holding two copies of Stations. She wears glasses and a dark jumper. The shop’s glass frontage and green Bookshop of the Year 2025 signs are behind her.

Inside Chapters: Louise Kennedy holds two copies of Stations inside Chapters. She stands beside display tables, with shelves of books and the large CHAPTERS BOOKSTORE sign on the stone wall behind her.

Louise Kennedy sits at a table signing an open copy of Stations. Stacks of the novel cover the table, and a man stands beside her preparing more copies.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tilda Swinton has taken charge of some of the weekend trades! This 1990s American film tie-in of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando is now in Secondhand, alongside Penguin Moderns, Paul Lynch’s Grace and a wonderfully mixed stack of recent favourites. She insisted on standing at the front!

A 1990s American film tie-in edition of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, with Tilda Swinton on the cover, stands in front of a stack of weekend trades. Visible behind it are Penguin Moderns, Paul Lynch’s Grace, Daisy Jones & The Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and other secondhand books.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cooking in a Bedsitter has arrived in Secondhand. Is that a mouse hanging on the cover? 🐭 Inside: a lovingly handwritten recipe involving beans, chilli, “thickish brown gravy” and fruit added at the end. We cherish the note. We have some questions about dinner.

A handwritten recipe on a torn sheet of lined paper found inside the book. It begins by simmering red beans, then adds onion, chilli powder, mushrooms and meat. The beans are stirred into “thickish brown gravy”, with fruit added near the end.

Worn black paperback cover of Katharine Whitehorn’s Cooking in a Bedsitter. A candle stands beside a row of hooks holding a cup, food, a knife and a small furry object that looks rather like a mouse.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cait and Baba are in Secondhand, complete with youthful hopes, complicated men & the epilogue. This Penguin copy of Edna O’Brien’s Country Girls trilogy has a beautifully worn cover, it is, as it should be, well read. If you haven't met them yet, introduce youself!

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Harrison Gardner called in and signed copies of Heat, Shelter, Water, Food - a practical guide to making your home more resilient, from heat and water to storms and power cuts. Signed copies are instore & online now. Thanks to Harrison and publisher Gill Books!

Harrison Gardner stands outside Chapters Bookstore on Parnell Street holding a copy of Heat, Shelter, Water, Food.

Harrison Gardner smiles towards the camera while signing copies of his book Pen Counter on Chapters

Harrison Gardner signs an open copy of Heat, Shelter, Water, Food, with stacks of the book beside him.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“I cannot live without books.” Thomas Jefferson said it first, but generations of readers have continued to demonstrate it by carrying three books on every two-day holiday .... Out of interest ... do you have a book in your bag or pocket at the moment? Exactly!

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