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Irish/Cork Book Reviewer/Blogger 💙 📚☘️ Dig. Mkting/PA for writingIE. Views my own #booksky Blog - www.swirlandthread.com
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Eleven Numbers by Lee Child #LeeChild @jamesandersonfoster.com #ElevenNumbers via @bluemoodcafe.bsky.social bluemoodcafe.com/2025/02/21/e...

Cover Reveal: River of Stars by Georgina Moore via @lindasbookbag.bsky.social lindasbookbag.com/2025/02/21/c...

#AudiobookReview - The Bookshop of Secrets by Kerry Barrett #TheBookshopOfSecrets #WW2 #Favourite #Espionage #BookSky #FeelGood #SecretLibraryBookBlog via @nickimags.bsky.social secretlibrarybookblog.com/2025/02/21/a...

An Enemy Like Me [Book Review] #ThrowbackThursday #booksky #bookblogger #HistoricalFiction #AnEnemyLikeMe #LiteraryFiction via @readingladiesbc.bsky.social readingladies.com/2025/02/20/a...

"The Family Inside" by Katie Garner - Book Review #TheFamilyInside #BookReview via @fictionophile.bsky.social fictionophile.com/2025/02/20/t...

#TheSeventhBody by @catherinekirwanbks.bsky.social publishes March 6th Introducing us to Det. Garda Alice McCann Seven bodies discovered in an archaeological excavation Six men who died centuries ago The seventh is different...😱 Launch Waterstones #cork Mar 12th 6.30pm 🗓

'The judges for the International Booker Prize 2025 and key dates have been announced' via @thebookerprizes.bsky.social thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Marshal of Snowdonia by Simon McCleave via @jenlucas.bsky.social jenmedsbookreviews.com/2025/02/21/m...

Five on Friday with Helga Jensen #FiveonFriday via @jillsbookcafe.bsky.social jillsbookcafe.blog/2025/02/21/f...

#FridayFun: Home Libraries in Unusual Spaces via @marinasofia.bsky.social findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/f...

The Café with No Name by Robert Seethaler (transl. Katy Derbyshire): Everyday life writ large via @alifeinbooks.bsky.social alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/02/the-...

A worthy winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize last September imho - and not long to wait til the next instalment in the series! Pop over to the blog for the full review: crimebookgirl.com/2025/02/21/r... #books #CrimeFiction #TartanNoir #BooksSky 💙📚

Can't recall who on here recommended this but just finished and loved it!

First Line Friday 21st February 2025: We All Live Here by JojoMoyes | #FirstLineFriday via @portybelle.bsky.social portobellobookblog.com/2025/02/21/f...

#BookReview #OfLandAndGreed by Denis Cronin A well-researched epic Irish family saga A tale of conflict highlighting the destructive nature of greed & rivalry set against the social and political unrest of the early 1900s www.swirlandthread.com/of-land-and-... #HistoricalFiction 💙📚 #booksky

My first newsletter from James Clear (Atomic Habits) and I am mulling over much of what it says. Concise & wise words including: "Spend today interpreting whatever people do in the most generous way. See if you feel better as a result." jamesclear.com/3-2-1/februa... #motivational #inspirational

#BookReview of #WomanInBlue by Douglas Bruton 'A very original and meditative piece of writing' writes @maireadhearne.bsky.social @FairlightBooks www.swirlandthread.com/woman-in-blu...

Little Red Death by A.K. Benedict via @jenlucas.bsky.social jenmedsbookreviews.com/2025/02/20/l...

Staying in with Anika Pavel via @lindasbookbag.bsky.social lindasbookbag.com/2025/02/20/s...

Movies you have watched more than six times, using only GIFs...

Small Fires by Ronnie Turner #blogtour #bookreview #smallfires via @clairekreads.bsky.social aknightsreads.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/s...

Thank you @faberbooks.bsky.social for a copy to review of #murderatgullsnest by Jess Kidd, the first in a new 1950s mystery series featuring Nora Breen, a former nun Publishing 13 March #booksky 💙📚 #mysterylovers 🔍💀📚 #bookbloggers

#BookReview: I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones @TitanBooks #IWasATeenageSlasher #BookSky #damppebbles via @damppebbles.bsky.social damppebbles.com/2025/02/20/b...

The Faber Children’s team is looking for a Project Editor to work on children’s titles from picture books up to YA. The successful candidate will be a meticulous, with a keen eye for detail and great communication skills. https://faber.co.uk/careers/childrens-project-editor-maternity-cover/

Cross My Heart by Megan Collins @megancollinswriter.bsky.social #chrisandrewciulla @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #CrossMyHeart via @bluemoodcafe.bsky.social bluemoodcafe.com/2025/02/20/c...

Come find us at www.writing.ie 🙌 #speirgorm #writersky #authorsky #writingcommunity #writerslife #booksky 💙📚 (Please do spread the word 🙏)

Absolutely brilliant news. Huge congratulations to Kevin Barry & @canongate.co.uk The Heart In Winter is a ballad in book form. Eloquently written. A powerful novel 👏

The Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O'Connor | #bookreview #historicalfiction #ww2fiction via @portybelle.bsky.social portobellobookblog.com/2025/02/20/t...

#BookReview ✨Publication Day ✨ #WomanInBlue by Douglas Bruton An exquisite read A moving and profound exploration of human relationships and love. Intimate, pure and mesmeric OUT NOW w/ Fairlight Books www.swirlandthread.com/woman-in-blu... #booksky 💙📚 #bookrecommendations

WWW Wednesdays! – 19/02/25 📚 📖🎧#HappyShrugDay 🤷‍♀️😉 #BookSky #WWWWednesdays #WhatAmIReading #SecretLibraryBookBlog Welcome to WWW Wednesdays! hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No…

The Language of Remembering will be in all good bookshops this day next week! Launch next Thursday! Countdown is on 🕺🕺

✨Submissions deadline: 2nd March 2025 In association with the Arts Office, Waterford City & County Council, The Waxed Lemon would like to invite submissions to Issue 9. Read more: www.writing.ie/resources/su... #writers #writing #speirgorm #writersky #submissions

Huge congratulations to @bansheepress.bsky.social and @lilliputpress.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #nibbies

🌟 Join us on Tuesday 4 March for a Carnegies Webinar with Shadowers' Choice Award-winning authors @Deanatta, @tiafisher_ & Manjeet Mann! This event is free thanks to ALCS. Register now to secure your place: https://buff.ly/3CQ83fp

There are just a few seats left for Val O'Donnell's 18 Ballads from James Joyce's Ulysses this Friday at 6.30pm. Don't miss out! www.eventbrite.ie/e/18-ballads...

I'm very much looking forward to speaking on rewilding an Irish rainforest at the joint Green Foundation Ireland/ @tudublinsustain.bsky.social Green Week, in Dublin on Tuesday March 11th. If you'd like to come along to this free event, you can register here: www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...

Amárach - tomorrow! Déardaoin 20 Feabhra - Thursday, 20th February ‘Before Zeuss: some (justly?) neglected works on early Celtic linguistics’ James Mallory (Queen’s University Belfast) 5.30, DIAS, Dublin/BÁC Fáilte roimh chách! All welcome! #DIASdiscovers www.dias.ie/2025/02/10/l...

We are looking for a skilled and driven Rights Executive to join the Faber Rights team. Could it be you? If so, apply by 25 February 2025. https://faber.co.uk/careers/rights-executive/

Tomorrow! The DCU Book Club at 6.30pm at Belvedere House DCU Drumcondra. Author Maggie Armstrong joins as special guest in conversation with DCU’s Writer in Residence 2025, Sarah Gilmartin. Register for free: www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-club-...