Children's Newsletter
Keep up to date on all the latest Children's books, book award winners and more.
OPENING ARRANGEMENTS
06.06.2020
****Covid update ****
New opening hours from Monday 8th June
Monday to Saturday 10am - 5pm
After 10 weeks of having no customers in the shop, we are delighted to say that from Monday 8th June we will be welcoming you back in again... 1 at a time!
We will have a collection point and will also be able to accept payment at the door.
We will be allowing customers in on a limited basis.
We will be taking things slowly at first, with your safety and ours our priority at all times.
Thank you for your continued patience and understanding
Please continue to visit our online shop if you are unable to visit us. Our postage remains at €3 for now.
0404-62240
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Take part in our Reading Challenge 2020 - 12 months, just read
Put down your phone, turn off your tablet, mute the tv and pick up a book.
For 5 minutes, for 15 minutes or for as long as you can.
Choose a genre you like, an author you're fond of and just read
Book Award News
(click on award headings for more information)
March 2020: Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist: Winner 2019: Tayari Jones 'An American Marriage'
January 2020: Costa Book Award Winner: Jack Fairweather: 'The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero'
Category Winners:
Novel Award - Jonathan Coe: 'Middle England'
First Novel Award - Sara Collins: 'The Confessions of Frannie Langton'
Biography Award - Jack Fairweather: 'The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero'
Poetry Award - Mary Jean Chan: 'Fléche'
Children's Book Award - Jasbinder Bilan: 'Asha & the Spirit Bird'
October 2019: The An Post Irish Book Awards Winners
October 2019: Man Booker Prize Winners 2019 Margaret Atwood 'The Testaments' & Bernadine Evaristo 'Girl, Woman, Other'/ 2018 Winner - Anna Burns 'Milkman'
June 2019: International Man Booker Prize Winner: Jokha Alharthi 'Celestial Bodies' / 2018: Olga Tokarczuk 'Flights'
June 2019: The Dublin Literary Awards Winner: Emily Ruskovich 'Idaho' / 2018: Mike McCormack 'Solar Bones'
May 2019: The Welcome Book Prize Winner: Alan Turing 'Murmur' / 2018: Mark O'Connell 'To Be A Machine'
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