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27/09/2025

National Public Libraries Open Day is taking place this Saturday, 27 September. Libraries across Ireland will be promoting to all the wonderful array of services on offer for everyone in the community.

Whether you're a child, teen, parent, adult, retiree, or simply curious, your local library has something for you. With free membership, there’s family-friendly events, study spaces, tech zones, opportunities for learning and connection, and programmes that embrace accessibility and inclusion. As well as the outstanding collection of interesting reads for all, libraries offer eBooks, audiobooks, book clubs, exhibitions, and opportunities for learning, creativity and connection.

Libraries are vibrant, accessible spaces where people of all ages can explore, grow, and belong.

19/08/2025

We are delighted to announce the publication of Sacrifice: A Year in the Life of a Champion Jockey by Oisin Murphy. Out 9 October 2025. Pre-order now through the link in our bio🔗

Written throughout the 2024 season, in which Murphy gained his fourth championship title, Sacrifice charts his return to the sport following a fourteen-month ban and a personal battle with alcohol addiction. As Oisin reflects on the darkness of that experience, the choices that led him there and the ongoing struggles he faces today, he reveals the pressures and stresses placed on a professional jockey and examines the fine line between elite performance and personal destruction.

The result is a searingly honest account that immerses readers in the daily life of a world class jockey. It offers an access-all-areas pass into the high-stakes world of racing, from the physical strains of training and the countless unseen hours of horse work, through to the psychological turmoil of racing, the private agony of wasting, and the vital community of the weighing room.

In celebration of Penguin’s 90th birthday this year, we are showcasing some of Ireland’s independent bookshops! This wee...
06/08/2025

In celebration of Penguin’s 90th birthday this year, we are showcasing some of Ireland’s independent bookshops! This week we have The Winding Stair bookshop, based in Lower Ormond Quay in Dublin City ❤️

‘The Winding Stair Bookshop has been a staple on the Irish Literature scene for decades, with the shop originally going all the way up to the third floor, it also once included a coffee shop. Those top two floors are now occupied by the Winding Stair Restaurant with the bookshop at the ground floor greeting everyone as they pass by on Ormond Quay. Our bookshop takes pride in offering a curated selection of niche literary works, with a strong emphasis on classics, Irish literature, and q***r culture. We’re passionate advocates for independently published books and support emerging voices through our monthly open mic nights, featuring prose, poetry, and music.’

In celebration of Penguin’s 90th birthday this year, we are showcasing some of Ireland’s independent bookshops! This wee...
22/07/2025

In celebration of Penguin’s 90th birthday this year, we are showcasing some of Ireland’s independent bookshops! This week we have Kennys Bookshop and Art Gallery in Galway city ❤️

‘Kennys Bookshop is an independent bookshop located in Galway city. They sell both new and secondhand books, and their website kennys.ie is the oldest online bookshop in the world, having launched in 1994. They also have an art gallery which sells original works of Irish art, and regularly run launches and free author interview events. Kennys are 85 years in business this year - the shop was opened in 1940 by Maureen and Des Kenny, and members of the second and third generation work here today.’

☀️ New books out in July! ☀️ Swipe to find out more about this amazing selection, and comment down below which one has e...
15/07/2025

☀️ New books out in July! ☀️

Swipe to find out more about this amazing selection, and comment down below which one has entered your TBR this month ✨📚

In celebration of Penguin’s 90th birthday this year, we are showcasing some of Ireland’s independent bookshops! This wee...
24/06/2025

In celebration of Penguin’s 90th birthday this year, we are showcasing some of Ireland’s independent bookshops! This week we have Bridge Street in Wicklow Town 🧡

‘Bridge Street Books is a multi-award winning, family run, independent bookshop, open since 1999. Set in an old house, it is a maze of rooms and nooks and crannies, perfect for browsing! Selling books for all the family, all ages and all interests, including reluctant readers, we pride ourselves on our recommendations and on our fast, efficient ordering service.
We love to recommend books for all occasions - so pop in for the book you wanted and pick up the book you didn’t know you needed!’

We are delighted to announce that Penguin Sandycove will be publishing 'The Lie of the Land', the first book by environm...
10/06/2025

We are delighted to announce that Penguin Sandycove will be publishing 'The Lie of the Land', the first book by environmental journalist John Gibbons, on the 4th of September.

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Ireland has tended to think of itself as a ‘Goldilocks’ country: not too hot, not too cold, and well positioned to ride out the climate emergency. But this is a fantasy: the effects of climate change in Ireland will be profound, and at the moment we’re not doing nearly enough about it. That’s the bad news. The good news is that Ireland has the wherewithal to dramatically cut its emissions while making itself far more resilient. This book shows how it can be done.

Above all, we must reimagine the ways in which we use the land. Agriculture accounts for 38 per cent of Ireland's greenhouse emissions – and just 7 per cent of gross national income. As Gibbons shows, Ireland's dramatic shift towards the most polluting food sectors – driven by a small number of agribusiness giants and facilitated by the state – benefits the few while imposing huge costs on the many. It doesn't have to be this way, and Gibbons, who grew up on an arable farm, shows how we can embrace a low-emissions farming model while preserving farmers' livelihoods, making the countryside a better place to live, and delivering something Ireland conspicuously lacks: food security.

The Lie of the Land is a bracing critique of the bad decisions that have put Ireland into such a vulnerable position, and a devastating dissection of the wishful thinking and outright dishonesty that have propped up the status quo in Irish agriculture. It also offers an inspiring vision of how – through a revolution in farming, development of renewable energy (including our vast offshore wind resource), and a dramatic acceleration of moves to decarbonize transport and housing – we can prepare for the new realities of the climate crisis.
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Take a look at some of the exciting new books that have arrived in our office this week, all out this month!
09/06/2025

Take a look at some of the exciting new books that have arrived in our office this week, all out this month!


From memoir to fiction, classic to contemporary, celebrate Pride this month by reading! 🌈
04/06/2025

From memoir to fiction, classic to contemporary, celebrate Pride this month by reading! 🌈

Congratulations to Dr Katriona O’Sullivan! Her extraordinary memoir, ‘Poor’, celebrates not only two years since publica...
01/06/2025

Congratulations to Dr Katriona O’Sullivan! Her extraordinary memoir, ‘Poor’, celebrates not only two years since publication this week, but also a incredible two years in the Irish Top 10 Bestsellers Chart!

Winner of the Bookselling Ireland Biography of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards in 2023, ‘Poor’ tells the remarkable story of Katriona’s journey from an impoverished childhood shaped by her parents' addictions, to becoming a prize-winning academic. Katriona tells her story with devastating candour, humour and warmth, and it has resonated with readers everywhere.

🌟 PRAISE FOR POOR 🌟
‘Moving, funny, brave and original - just like the author . . . absolutely incredible’ (Irish Times Women's Podcast)
‘Raw and remarkable’ - Irish Independent

‘They should put it on the leaving cert . . . an extraordinary book’ - RTÉ Radio One

‘One of the most important books I have ever read . . . a beautiful telling of determination despite the odds’ - Irish Times

We are excited to announce that we will be publishing ‘Speaking My Mind’, the remarkable memoir from former Taoiseach Le...
29/05/2025

We are excited to announce that we will be publishing ‘Speaking My Mind’, the remarkable memoir from former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, out 11th September 2025. Pre-order your copy here: https://linktr.ee/speakingmymind

‘Leo Varadkar was an unlikely Taoiseach – the youngest on taking office in 2017, the first Taoiseach to be gay, and the first person of colour to be Taoiseach.

Equally unlikely was his decision to bow out of politics in his mid-forties. Now, liberated from the constraints of office, he tells his fascinating story with characteristic courage and candour, and provides a unique insight into the formation and evolution of a senior politician.

In Speaking My Mind, Leo Varadkar shares his pride in helping to bring about transformational changes, and he describes experiences that only a prime minister could have – speaking frankly to Pope Francis on the legacy of church abuses, connecting with Barack Obama about both being the ‘tall, dark guy with the funny name’, navigating challenges such as the pandemic and the fallout from Brexit. And he writes honestly about the costs that go with the immense privilege of holding high office.

Speaking My Mind is a revealing, intimate and important memoir from a singular public figure.’

29/05/2025

Happiest of publication days to the fabulous ‘Long Story’, the glamorous new novel from best-selling author Vicki Notaro! 💕

TWO BEST FRIENDS, ONE OLD FLAME 🔥 IT’S A LONG STORY…

After the huge success of her debut novel ‘Reality Check’, fans can’t wait to get their hands on ‘Long Story’, out now on shelves, in e-book and audio.

💕‘So much emotional intelligence and warmth. I HARED through it.’
Marian Keyes

💕‘Once you pick up this book you won’t be able to put it down! I devoured it.’
Laura Whitmore

💕About ‘Long Story’:💕
Tara is a beloved Irish actress and queen of the rom-com, taking the US by storm.

Alex is a powerhouse podcast host and writer, comfortable in her native Dublin.

As teenagers, they swore boys would never come between them. But now a ghost from the past has written a memoir, revealing his history with them both. Their friendship has survived jealousy, heart break, grief and time zones, but could this betrayal break them for good?

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