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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Q: What's better than a bookshop that sells wool? A: A bookshop that also has a cafe, sells musical instruments Huge thanks to Joh and Sinéad at The Bookworm in Thurles (and apologies to Sinéad for interrupting the pricing process) #Spéirgorm #OnceAYear #booksky @gaiabanks.bsky.social

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Jane Fraser Writer @janefraserwriter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

'Weights and Measures' publishes today! I'd like to thank #AlanBilton, publisher #WatermarkPress, my husband, Philip at #NBDesign for the cover artwork, my agent @gaiabanks.bsky.social @sheilland.bsky.social, & the wonderful @fflurdafydd.bsky.social & #EurosLyn who were my first readers. Diolch.

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Rose McGee @rosemcgeewrites.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

SUCKER FOR YOU 🐙💕 Meet Isabel Wright! She’s got an octopus, a ring, and a tight timeline to get married. But something’s missing: a Mr. Wright… 💕🐙

Character intro graphic for Isabel Wright, showing a blonde woman, hiking boots, a Canadian stamp, an engagement ring, an octopus, a pill bottle, and a to-do list.

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Yay. I've just seen there's a ONE DAY ONLY SPECIAL PRICE on the EBOOK of my memoir #TheHouseOnAnIrishHillside UK/Irl Link tinyurl.com/49pnac49 US Link tinyurl.com/3pf7y49u Please share. Thanks, xf #Spéirgorm #WritingCommunity #Booksky #EbookOffer @gaiabanks.bsky.social

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

COVER REVEAL! 📚 💙 And flagging this PRE-ORDER COMPETITION from Irish indie booksellers omahonysbooks.bsky.social. There's an overnight for two at the Falls Hotel & Spa to be won INCLUDING dinner & a spa treatment! 👇 💖 @gaiabanks.bsky.social #spéirgorm #booksky www.omahonys.ie/once-a-year-...

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Janice Hallett @janicehallett.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Yay! 🎉 #Retreat the film I co-wrote with its director Carl Tibbetts is on BBC 1 tomorrow night 😱Well, at 25 minutes past midnight, I guess it's Sunday really! After that it'll be on @BBCiPlayer 👀 Hope you enjoy this tense, psychological thriller 🫣

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Yay! Special US2.99 offer on The House on an Irish Hillside! Here's the Kobo link. Offer expires 5/22/2025 so get yours now, US friends. (It applies on Amazon, Apple Books, B&N and Google too.) Shares appreciated. 👇😊 www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... #Irish #memoir #booksky📚💙 #writingcommunity

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The House on an Irish Hillside ebook by Felicity Hayes-McCoy - Rakuten Kobo

Read "The House on an Irish Hillside A Memoir" by Felicity Hayes-McCoy available from Rakuten Kobo. “A lovely writer, far superior to the average memoirist. . . . A curious mind, a perceptive observer...

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Viper Books @viperbooks.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Happy paperback publication day to #TheExaminer 🎓 Janice Hallett's fifth Sunday Times bestseller is as twisty and clever as ever. Get your paperback copy now and spend the bank holiday weekend enrolled in your masterclass in murder... 🦂🦂🦂 viperbooks.co.uk/work/the-exa... @janicehallett.bsky.social

A photograph of the paperback edition of The Examiner. There are two copies of the book, one showing the front cover and one showing the back cover. The photo is taken outside with some trees and greenery in the background.

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Janice Hallett @janicehallett.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

If you’re picking up #TheExaminer in paperback, then check out this beautiful independent bookstore #limitededition 🤩 Not only signed by my own fair hand, but also sporting sinister scorpion spredges 🦂 What a treat! Special bookmarks are also available 🎓🔎 While stocks last!

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Rose McGee @rosemcgeewrites.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

TALK DATA TO ME made it into The Bookseller as a preview romance title for August—and it’s gonna be a 🔥 month with @lianainbloom.bsky.social @ivyfairbanks.bsky.social and more!

An image of the August romance preview page from The Bookseller, which shows titles from Rose McGee (Talk Data to Me), Ivy Fairbanks (Heart Strings), Liana De La Rosa (Gabriella and His Grace), among others.

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Rose McGee @rosemcgeewrites.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Cover reveal, #writingcommunity! TALK DATA TO ME: The Love Hypothesis meets You’ve Got Mail in this sweet and sexy STEMinist romcom. 🔬💫💕 Coming August 7!

Book cover for Talk Data to Me, in which two rival physicists face off over a desk cluttered with coffee mugs, Sudoku grids, and solar system models. Enemies—or are they? “They’re polar opposites. But their attraction is magnetic…”

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

It was great to be part of tonight's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? which airs 9pm on BBC One. The programme uncovers a remarkable Irish family story. (Also, Aisling Bea is some woman for one woman!) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... #Spéirgorm #ancestry #Irish #Roots #CorcaDhuibhne

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Sending love and thanks on #IrelandReadsDay to all the brilliant #booksellers (and #librarians) whose lives inspired my recent #Finfarran novel #TheBooksellersGift, and whose energy, hard work and charm are bringing it to readers. xx 💞 #Spéirgorm #booksky #Irish #writing @gaiabanks.bsky.social

Author Felicity Hayes-McCoy in an Irish bookshop, smiling and holding a pile of copies of her 2024 novel The Bookseller's Gift (which is set in an Irish bookshop).

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Delighted to know that a piece by Zdenko Matoz featuring the #Slovenian translations of my novels has appeared on Delo's Culture page. In English, its heading translates as "Love of Books Changes Everything" #Booksky #translation @gaiabanks.bsky.social #books #fiction #novels #Slovenia #Ireland

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Thank you to my pal @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social for The Bookseller's Gift. I love to read in season, so this kept me good company over the past few days. A warm and hopeful novel that vividly evokes a small town sense of community and the relationship threads that run through it.

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Exceedingly chuffed by this. (Especially coming from @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social , An Post Irish Book Awards' Bookshop Of The Year 2024!) #Booksky📚 #SpéirGorm @gaiabanks.bsky.social

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Still blown away that #TheBooksellersGift is #1 on National Book Tokens' ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS BOOK LIST & one of their Best Book Gifts for Christmas 2024 Please share & tell the world! xf #choosebooks #choosebookshops #shoplocal #festivereading #Booksky #writingcommunity #booksaremybag #spéirgorm

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 16/12/2024

This is Roxy. Her head is almost the same size as her body. This is because she is very, very smart. 12/10

a german shepherd puppy is curled into a tight little loaf on a light colored sofa. she has her front paws tucked under themselves at the wrist, and the tip of her tail is tucked in under her body as well. her pointy ears have little tufts of fur at the base. she looks a little sleepy and a lot cozy.

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Gaia Banks @gaiabanks.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by @janicehallett.bsky.social is in the NYT’s list of Best 10 thrillers of 2024!

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Catherine Robertson @cjrauthor.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

No 1 status captured! Can’t say bestseller cos free. Love that I’m either side of Dame Jilly further down the actual bestseller list

Apple Books Top Free and bestseller lists - Corkscrew You at #1 in Free and Kiss My Glass at 21 and You’re So Vine at 23 in bestsellers, either side of Dame Jilly Cooper’s Riders, a favourite read of my younger more impressionable days

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Gaia Banks @gaiabanks.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

@cjrauthor.bsky.social’s swoony, hilarious CORKSCREW YOU is Apple U.K. free book of the week, and riding high at #1! 💙📚 books.apple.com/gb/book/cork...

Apple Books U.K. Free Book of the Week - CORKSCREW YOU by Catherine Robertson

CORKSCREW YOU by Catherine Robertson - 1 in the Apple U.K. free books chart

Catherine Robertson’s novels KISS MY GLASS and YOU’RE SO VINE in the Apple U.K. Romance chart

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The Cosy Moose @thecosymoose.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

💙📚 #24for24 #favouritebooksof2024 12 - The Examiner - @janicehallett.bsky.social Every book, you think you’re going to spot the twist in Janice Hallett’s books. And every time she pulls the rug from under you. The Examiner is another book you have to re-read immediately.

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Viper Books @viperbooks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Congratulations to @atticalocke.bsky.social whose book #GuideMeHome is an Editor's Choice @crimefictionlover.bsky.social Book of the Year! And congratulations to author @janicehallett.bsky.social, the Editor's Choice for Best Author! We couldn't be prouder! crimefictionlover.com/2024/12/the-...

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The Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2024: The Winners | Crime Fiction Lover

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Fiery coat amongst fiery foliage . A tricky one today . Thank you @WebbyJamesHere on Twitter for sharing #FoxOfTheDay

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Gaia Banks @gaiabanks.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Featuring @rachaelking70.bsky.social’s luminous The Grimmelings published by Guppy Books

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Locky Loves Books @lockylovesbooks.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

🎄 Don’t miss our #readalong discussion of #TheChristmasAppeal by @janicehallett.bsky.social. 🎄 It’s Monday 2 December at 8.30pm in #TheBookload on Facebook. Group link: facebook.com/groups/thebookload @thebookload.bsky.social @viperbooks.bsky.social

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Jane Fraser Writer @janefraserwriter.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Okay. As it’s now Advent, excuse a timely & shameless plug for ‘Advent’ my debut (and so far, only novel) published by #Honno in 2021 and winner of the @societyofauthors.bsky.social #PaulTordayMemorialPrize 2022. It’ll take you back to the Gower peninsula, Wales in 1904/05 where you’ll find Ellen.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

On Sunday 1st December, 2-4pm before all the madness takes over, we are having some fun in store! Bring your Mam, sister, friend, daughter, partner .. or a combination of them all, but most of all give yourself a break & join us for some chat & laughs as The Queens Take to The Mic!

Two red slides with a gold crown on the top with the words ‘The Queens’ Alternative Christmas Message!!’ Followed by - Please join us on Sunday 1st
December
2pm - 4pm
For chat, gossip, readings, bubbles & mince pies with
our Queens of Irish Popular Fiction!

The second slide includes the text - Patricia Scanlan (health permitting)
Sheila O Flanagan, Felicity Hayes-McCoy, Carmel Harrington, Hazel Gaynor, Ciara Gerrity
& Caroline Grace-Cassidy
Start the Christmas with a smile & please join us to eavesdrop on the most lively, engaging, warm, generous conversation as these 'naughty but nice' women take to the mic for
The Queens' Alternative Christmas Message!!

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Massive thanks to Anna and Tia at #Waterstones' #Belfast city centre and Forestside stores, and to Matt and Claire in #Bangor, for the great welcome and super window displays. Signed copies of #TheBooksellersGift now available! 🖋️✨ #Booksky📚 #buylocal #Writingcommunity @gaiabanks.bsky.social

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Mark Lawrence @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

In April it'll all be over 😮

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Janice Hallett @janicehallett.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

OMG! 😱 This is amazing! #TheAlpertonAngels is one of @nytimes.com 100 Notable Books of 2024 😇🕵️‍♀️🔎 👇 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Gaia Banks @gaiabanks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels is a NYT Notable Book of 2024! @janicehallett.bsky.social

A headline from the New York Times that reads ‘100 Notable Books of 2024’

The Atria Books paperback cover of The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

@fhayesmccoy.bsky.social A message from my wife while I was away at the weekend. You have a new fan.

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‘Dr’ Dorothy Koomson @dorothykoomson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

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Sam Steele @samsteeleauthor.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Im so happy to see my new book here! Thank you @matineegirl1.bsky.social

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Nina Pottell @matineegirl1.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hi Wednesday #bookpost and hi 💙📚

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Jenna Levine @jennalevine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My dear friend Jo Segura and I are doing a joint book giveaway for our newsletter subscribers! Details here: open.substack.com/pub/jennalev...

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Giveaway, Black Friday deals, and news about Book 3

I hope this newsletter finds y’all well!

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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

COVER REAL!! I can finally properly announce my next book: VIOLET AND THE VELVETS: THE CASE OF THE MISSING STUFF - out March 2025 in Australia and NZ through Allen & Unwin! With illustrations by the talented Phoebe Morris. #kidlit #MGkidlit www.allenandunwin.co.nz/browse/book/...

Book cover for Violet and the Velvets with a 12 year old girl leaping in the air with a guitar.

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Gaia Banks @gaiabanks.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

@owlbookshop.bsky.social in Kentish Town has a 20% off Christmas shopping event today (My toddler scored 3 new books 😍📚. Also spotted: books by @janicehallett.bsky.social @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social @alistairwriter.bsky.social)

A copy of The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett

A copy of The Book that Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence)

A copy of The Mirror and the Road by Alistair Boyd

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Well, @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social in Derry certainly knows how to host a signing! Thank you so much, Jenni Doherty, for the warmth, the welcome and the stunning displays! 🥰 #booksky📚 #writingcommunity #books #festivefiction #TheBooksellersGift @gaiabanks.bsky.social

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Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We had a great hostess last night in Kilmealy, County Clare #TheBooksellersGift #writersroadtrip #booksky 📚 #festive #fiction

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Gaia Banks @gaiabanks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

So I’m watching Man on the Inside on Netflix because I wanted a gentle mystery for hibernation season - which I got, and it’s really enjoyable. What I didn’t expect was the retired teacher father and middle-aged daughter dynamic, which was great and hit unexpected close to home

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Calling Blueskyers in the vicinity of Oxford: this is happening on Saturday and we’d be chuffed if you joined us.

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Ático de los Libros @aticodeloslibros.com · 21/11/2024

Para todos los que estéis buscando la lectura perfecta para estas fiestas, @janicehallett.bsky.social nos trae una playlist de Spotify con la que acompañar la lectura de "La apelación de Navidad" 🎅 open.spotify.com/playlist/7ld... #ÁticodelosLibros #Navidad

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The Christmas Appeal

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I've been quiet this morning because I've been setting up The Berties in the other place and on instagram. This list is filled up with your nominations, prize winners and some of our favourite books of the year. You then vote! We can't do votes on bluesky yet, but I'm going to reveal the titles.

32 different books (see following posts for more details) in front of bookcases - surrounding the words "The Berties 2024"

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