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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tonight! Don't miss the launch of Glorious Monsters, the incredible new novel from @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social - we're kicking off at 6pm at Hodges Figgis, all welcome! 🎉

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Matthew Paul @matthewepaul.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The best parcel. Thank you, @lilliputpress.bsky.social

The cover of X + Y = K by Ciaran Carson.

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He’s only gone and done it 🎉 A HUGE congrats to our submissions editor (and esteemed author!) Seán Farrell on winning the John McGahern Prize for his debut novel Frogs for Watchdogs 🎉 Frogs for Watchdogs is a brilliant, beautiful depiction of childhood, and we’d really recommend you get yourself a

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The president of the United States is in Ireland this weekend

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS by JONATHAN SWIFT 🛶 Coming October 28th, we are delighted to be publishing a special Lilliput edition of the iconic Gulliver’s Travels, one of the most influential books ever written by an Irish author, in celebration of 300 years since its original 1726 publication 💫

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A very happy publication day to the audiobook of THE UNEXPURGATED CODE narrated by none other than Simon Callow 🎉 Caleb and Kyle Audiobooks have produced the very first audio edition of Donleavy's wildly comic classic, and it is brilliant. We guarantee some out-loud snorting at the very least!

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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🤠 Looking forward to this event at the Dublin Book Festival, where I'll be chatting with John O'Donnell and Niall McMonagle about the Short Story form #dbf26 @lilliputpress.bsky.social dublinbookfestival.com/event/the-ar...

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The Art of the Short Story - Dublin Book Festival

Hear authors Niamh Mac Cabe and John O'Donnell discussing their short story collections at Dublin Book Festival 2026

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Delighted to receive a proof of Sue's latest, very much enjoyed her first two

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Really looking forward to a good chat with my old pal Sara Baume and Stephen Reid of @lilliputpress.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social in a few weeks’ time. Thanks to @literatureireland.bsky.social for hosting. Please do come and join us. www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

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Reaching Readers

Literature Ireland and the National Library of Ireland present Translating a Nation, an In Conversation series.

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

FROM OUT MY HEART By SUE RAINSFORD 🫀 When Phyllipa, a scholar chasing the lingering pulse of Edgar Allan Poe, hears of Lana, a woman living in an isolated community, who claims to be visited by the spirit of Poe's child bride Virginia Clemm, she travels to the remote village to meet her.

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

X+Y=K by Ciaran Carson ⏳️ We are delighted to be publishing this genre-bending novel by the late, legendary Ciaran Carson. Moving between Belfast and London, X+Y=K traces the fractured consciousness of Kilpatrick, a man haunted by migraine visions, as he navigates a porous world.

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Pilgrimage is the Hodges Figgis fiction book of the month 🎉 Banned on its release, The Pilgrimage is, as Colm Tóibín writes in his introduction, an exploration of religiosity and sexuality that is ‘fearless and frank and sometimes comic’.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

4 outstanding recent Irish short story collections: Liadan Ní Chuinn, Every One Still Here @stingingfly.bsky.social @grantabooks.bsky.social Dave Tynan, We Used to Dance Here @grantabooks.bsky.social Niamh Mac Cabe, Four Night Seas Shane Tivenan, To Avenge a Dead Glacier @lilliputpress.bsky.social

4 outstanding recent short story collections by Irish writers

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Glorious Monsters by Martina Devlin 💫 Rome, 1819. Into the sun-struck streets of the Eternal City arrive the Shelleys: brilliant, volatile, and dangerously entangled. When Irish artist Amelia Curran encounters Mary Shelley, her mercurial husband Percy, and Mary's dazzling stepsister-

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A small and literal handful of some brilliant novels that we have been lucky enough to publish this year 🔥 SOMEWHERE is the spectacular and kaleidoscopic debut from Jessamine O’Connor, which follows Clodagh as she tries to piece the shards of her life back together while struggling-

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Kate Bielinski @katebielinski.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026

A really lovely book exploring a woman’s grief. Absolutely gorgeous descriptions of nature and of finding joy in small things. Ends with a real sense of hope and happiness too. Can’t find the author on Bluesky but published by @lilliputpress.bsky.social #booksky #speirgorm

Image of a book called “the lockkeepers wife” by John McKenna. There is an image of a canal lock with a small house and some trees beside it.

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Nintendo Life @nintendolife.com · 02/08/2026

Book Review: CTRL: Essays On Video Games - An Affecting Anthology For Anyone Who Grew Up On Games.

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Book Review: CTRL: Essays On Video Games - An Affecting Anthology For Anyone Who Grew Up On Games

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Not the Nintendo Life review 🔥 Amazing to see CTRL: Essays on Video Games edited by Dean Fee given such a brilliant and considered review in @nintendolife.com 🎮 A huge thank you to Gavin Lane for the review 👾

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"Ooh!" God, I make myself laugh sometimes... Thank you @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social for my early copy of #GloriousMonsters - a novel about Mary Shelley, Amelia Curran & the Romantic circle in Italy, 1819. Due Oct 2026 from @lilliputpress.bsky.social - preorder now! #NewFiction #NewIrishFiction

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Proof, personally delivered by Martina! Charlotte made me feel clever and curious: she gave me context, then trusted me to find the meaning. Edith opened another world. I know nothing of Glorious Monsters. I can’t wait. Thank you! @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Delicious book post from the pen of the brilliant Sue Rainsford this morning. Coming soon from @lilliputpress.bsky.social (There’s a Poe element to the novel, hence the raven theme).

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The West Cork Literary Festival starts tomorrow and it is jam packed with stunning events ✨️ There is so much to see (this year's programme is unreal!), but make sure to catch Mary Morrissy in conversation with Danielle McLaughlin and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne on July 12-

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🌟 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 🌟 We are officially open for submissions for the whole month of July, and we want to read your work! Send us your best literary fiction and nonfiction, especially if it has an Irish focus ✨️ For full guidelines on how to submit, go to www.lilliputpress.ie 📚

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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

ITSA ME in pixel-perfect form!! CTRL: Essays on Video Games @lilliputpress.bsky.social is out now and available in all good bookshops. Don't miss out on this wonderful anthology and get your copy today (esp so they can turn more of the writers into pixels!) Art by @bluewit.bsky.social

A pixel version of Úna-Minh. She is wearing a blue turtleneck. In the background there are 4 pixel people (including her) reading copies of CTRL: Essays on video games

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Meet some of our CTRL players! 🕹 Editor Dean Fee and contributors Úna-Minh Kavanagh, Anna Loughran and Roisin Kiberd have been lovingly transformed into sprites by the powers of @bluewit.bsky.social (an incredible artist, give her a follow!) - look how happy they all are! 👾

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Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

🔥Niamh MacCabe talks about ambiguity, animals, and what she’d like to do with her cookbooks in the latest episode of Burning Books🔥 @lilliputpress.bsky.social @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/niamhmaccabe...

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Niamh MacCabe on Burning Books - Books Ireland

Niamh MacCabe tells Ruth McKee which books she would save if her house was on fire.

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Catriona Shine @catrionashine.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I'm delighted to announce that the audiobook of Habitat is out now! It's narrated beautifully by Edoardo Ballerini. I hope you enjoy listening to it. xC #Habitat #audiobook #edoardoballerini #catrionashine #oslo #thelilliputpress @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.audible.co.uk/pd/Habitat-A...

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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I very much enjoyed Four Night Seas by @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social, pub. @lilliputpress.bsky.social The stories locate our bewilderment with where we are and what is expected of us; the memories and images that replay as we seek to justify our actions. Achieved through imaginative form and language.

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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

RTÉ's New Irish Writing selection: Excerpt from 'Sky An Iris', a story from my collection Four Night Seas 🫏🐎 @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

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New Irish Writing: Four Night Seas by Niamh McCabe

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Delighted to see a gorgeous review for CTRL: Essays on Video Games, edited by Dean Fee, in the Irish Times over the weekend 🎮 ‘Smart, melancholic and philosophically alert, CTRL understands that video games have become central imaginative environments through which contemporary experience-

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for the incredible launch of Somewhere by Jessamine O’Connor at Liber Bookshop 🐦‍⬛🎉 Massive thanks to Elske Rahill for launching the book, and to the amazing team at Liber for hosting us ✨ Somewhere is out now! Get your copy of this stunning debut today 🐦‍⬛✨

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

A very happy publication day to SOMEWHERE by Jessamine O'Connor 🎉 Swipe to see some of the lovely things people have been saying about this stunning debut, and then run to your local bookshop to get a copy for yourself 🐦

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Events this week ✨️ We have the latest memoir from renowned architect John Tuomey, new editions of John Broderick's novels, and a gorgeous debut from the brilliant Jessamine O'Connor all coming this week 🥰 All welcome - we promise a good, literary time 📚

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We had a brilliant night launching CTRL: Essays on Video Games, put together and edited by the maestro and legendary gamer guy Dean Fee 👾 Love to the contributors who read on the night, love to the contributors who were in the crowd, and love to the contributors who weren’t able to be there -

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Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

"To a notable degree, every one of the essays focuses on how games can act as a cypher for recovery or trauma processing." Jessica Anne Rose reviews CTRL: Essays on Video Games, ed. Dean Fee @lilliputpress.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/born-from-im...

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Born from imagination—CTRL: Essays on Video Games - Books Ireland

To Play is to Process—CTRL: Essays on Video Games, ed. Dean Fee (The Lilliput Press).

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

A little sneak peek at some of the brilliant pieces in CTRL: Essays on Video Games, edited by Dean Fee 👾🎮 Catch Dean and Lisa McInerney on RTÉ Arena tomorrow evening talking video games, writing and everything in between, and join us on Thursday at @booksupstairs.bsky.social for the launch-

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

A gorgeous sunny day spent visiting bookshops with the one and only Martin Doyle to sign copies of his new book A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026 ✍️ Signed copies of A Hosting are now available from: 📗 Easons Stephen’s Green 📘 Dubray Books Grafton Street

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Theresa Ryder @theresaryder.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I have my battered and much loved copy, wonderful to see the excellent @lilliputpress.bsky.social bringing back The Unexpurgated Code for #jpdonleavy100 a fitting way to celebrate the centenary of his birth👌A brilliantly funny, and insightful book 📚

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We are so delighted to be bringing J.P. Donleavy's masterfully written satire THE UNEXPURGATED CODE back into print, in honour of Donleavy's 100th birthday 🎉 Described by The New York Times as 'possibly the funniest book ever written', Donleavy's guide to-

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The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

What a ball celebrating @martindoyle.bsky.social and his new book A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026 in Galway and Dublin over the last week ✨ A huge thank you to the incredible teams at @kennysbookshop.bsky.social and @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social for their hard work, support and-

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PATRICIA SCANLAN Author @patriciascanlan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Enjoyed @lilliputpress.bsky.social great launch for @irishtimes.com Books Editor @martindoyle.bsky.social latest book #AHosting Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026, @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social . Martin has supported so many Irish writers over the years. I’m honoured & delighted to be included.😊

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This looks great! Love the range of contributors. Going into our window beside @mackeza.bsky.social

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

My feature for the Irish Post on the Irish writers born in Britain featured in A Hosting eg Paul Howard, Mike McCormack, Catherine O’Flynn, Martin McDonagh, Eugene McCabe and Bridget O’Connor and British-based ones such as Roy Foster and Martina Evans www.irishpost.com/features/hos...

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Host nation: Irish writers and Britain | The Irish Post

THERE is no border in Irish literature, wrote David Marcus, the eminent Cork-born literary editor...

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026 – A good listener’s illuminating, engaging conversations. Margaret Kelleher, chair of Anglo-Irish literature and drama at UCD, reviews A Hosting, my new book www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026 – A good listener’s illuminating, engaging conversations

The 60 authors in this ‘career retrospective’ include Claire Keegan, Anne Enright, Maeve Binchy and Sebastian Barry

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Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Currently reading: Four Night Seas, a marvellous collection of short stories by Niamh MacCabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social , published by @lilliputpress.bsky.social #ShortStories

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