Lilliput Press

26/11/2025

Happy publication week to DRUID THEATRE: FIFTY YEARS by PATRICK LONERGAN 🎭

This definitive history of the powerhouse that is Druid Theatre (featuring an introduction from Fintan O'Toole) will be landing in shops this week and would make for a very gorgeous Christmas gift if we do say so ourselves ✨️

And a huge thank you to Emily Hourican for her brilliant piece on Druid and the book in the Sunday Indo over the weekend, which gives a great insight into how Druid became the incredible institute it is today, influencing the careers of our very best talent, including Cillian Murphy, Ruth Negga and Brendan Gleeson.

Get your copy this week - order it from your fave bookshop, or direct from the Lilliput website 🌟

Book and cover design by the incredible Niall McCormack 📚
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24/11/2025

✨️ SUBMISSIONS ✨️

Get those manuscripts ready - we are opening for submissions in December!

Send us your best literary fiction, non-fiction, history, essays, memoir or biography, especially if it has an Irish focus.

For full guidelines on how to submit, go to www.lilliputpress.ie 📚

23/11/2025

'There hasn't been [a coffee guide] I've found, where someone has visited each of the places, experienced it for themselves and taken all the shots. I found that personal side of the book very nice, and I hope others take that away from reading it.' - Paddy Kirk speaking with Pat McCarry ☕️

A gorgeous interview with coffee, photography and football maestro Paddy Kirk in today's Sunday Indo Life Magazine ✨️

Grab a copy of today's paper and enjoy the interview over a hot brew ☕️ Paddy's new book, The Dublin Coffee Guide is out now in all good bookshops (and cafés!) 📚

21/11/2025

20/11/2025

We are so delighted to be taking part in the inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair later this month ✨️

Come along to Pearse Street Library on November 28 and 29 to say hi, browse our wares and celebrate all of the amazing indie publishers, literary magazines, writers, zines and bookmakers in Ireland and beyond 📚

It's a huge honour to be included alongside so many amazing small presses - a huge thank you to and for including us and putting the event together 🙌

12/11/2025

If you're looking for some early Christmas inspiration, look no further! 🎄😎

Take a peek at our most recent gift books and get a headstart on your Christmas list with Lilliput - we have something for everyone!

Books are available from our website or from any good bookshop 📚

30/10/2025

Beyond delighted that Francis Bacon's Nanny by Maylis Besserie, translated by Clíona Ní Ríordáin, has been longlisted for the 2025 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation ✨️

The judges said of the 2025 longlist:

“This year, as every year, the longlist for this award showcases the extraordinary range and depth of global women’s writing now available to readers in English. The inclusive scope of this prize means that it crosses borders not just language and space but of time as well. This year, as before, we have rediscovered newly-translated modern classics as well as sampling outstanding new work from around the globe. Our longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia.”

“For this award that considers all genres on equal terms, the judges have found longlist places not only for fiction of all sorts - from fiercely contemporary short stories to the epic debut by one of the 20th century’s greatest literary voices. We have selected searing memoir too, and (this year) an especially rich haul of poetry. The poetry books stretch from luminous snapshots of everyday experience to immersive mythic narrative in verse. Like our prose selections, they demonstrate the vision and artistry both of the original authors - and of the translators who carry this precious cargo across languages and cultures. Without them, our imaginative worlds would be so much smaller, and poorer.”

A huge congrats to the other writers, translators and publishers on the longlist 🙌

30/10/2025

Swift Blaze of Fire is a fascinating and absorbing account of the life of Robert “Bob” Hilliard, one of Ireland’s best-known International Brigadistas, and an enigmatic figure who wore many hats in his lifetime. We had a quick catch-up with the book’s author Lin Rose Clark, Hilliard’s granddaughter, to find out a little more about her new book.

Lin appears at Histories Uncovered on Sunday 9 November in our Festival Hub alongside Kevin Rafter.

Lin Rose Clark Lilliput Press

Read more at the link below 📚

https://dublinbookfestival.com/2-minutes-with-lin-rose-clark/

29/10/2025

🗣 BOOK LAUNCH 🗣

We are so excited to be launching THE DUBLIN COFFEE GUIDE by PADDY KIRK as part of the Dublin Book Festival on Thursday, November 6 ✨️

Fancy an espresso tasting and hearing about Dublin's thriving coffee scene from the man behind the sensational ? Then make sure to book your ticket and join us at The Fumbally for a perfect, caffeine-fueled morning ☕️

Tickets are available via the link in our bio or from www.dublinbookfestival.com 📚

25/10/2025

'No more singular body of characters will ever rub shoulders again at any given time, or a city more uniquely bizarre than literary Dublin will ever be seen.'

Fifty years on, 'Remembering How We Stood' by John Ryan still stands as one of the greatest accounts of post-war, literary Dublin, and the mania and lives that inhabited it - from Brendan Behan to Patrick Kavanagh to Flann O'Brien.

Chosen by Edna O'Brien as her Observer Book of the Year in 1975, and featuring an introduction from J.P. Dunleavy, this classic is essential reading for any Irish literature fans.

To celebrate this milestone anniversary, we are offering 10% off copies of 'Remembering How We Stood' on our website - just use the code REMEMBER50 at checkout. Happy reading! 🫶

22/10/2025

Much grá this Seachtain na Leabhar Éireannach to the bookshops and booksellers around the country ✨️

Booksellers are the unsung heroes of the Irish book industry, and we are endlessly grateful for the support bookshops have shown Lilliput and other Irish publishers this year.

It is the booksellers who put books into the hands of readers, who host events and signings, who champion Irish writers. Nothing we do would be possible without them.

Support your local bookshops this week - ceannaigh go háitiúil, ceannaigh earraí Éireannacha ❤️

20/10/2025

To celebrate Irish Book Week, the wonderful Oona Frawley spoke to the folks over at National Book Tokens about some of her favourite books about grief, love and loss ✨️

There are some really beautiful picks on Oona's list - see if you spot any of your own faves over at www.nationalbooktokens.com 📚