The Lilliput Press

Ireland's leading independent publisher, founded in 1984.
Our Stoneybatter bookshop is open 9.30am-5pm on weekdays.
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Reviews of Neil Jordan's The Library of Traumatic Memory, Sorj Chalendon's The Fourth Wall, Colm Tóibín's The News from Dublin, Jon Doyle's Communion & John Almond's The Whispering Stars in this wk's papers @HoZ_Books @CormacKinsella @LilliputPress @GillHessLtd @AtlanticBooks

[Anne Cunningham @annecrecipes]

Reviews of Love & Other Liabilities, The Lock-Keeper's Wife, Esther is Now Following You, Nothing Good Happens After 2am and Rembrandt's Promise in this wk's papers. @PoolbegBooks @LilliputPress @ClionaLewis @patriciamcveigh @eriu_books

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Sun 1/03 at 1.15pm @BelltableLimk Desert Is book w/ Martin Doyle & Sarah Moore Fitzgerald. 4 favourites to take & 1 to never lend. Martin is book editor @IrishTimes. Author-Dirty Linen:The Troubles in My Own Place &A Hosting:Interviews with Irish Writers
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.@LilliputPress has signed A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 by journalist Martin Doyle and From Out My Heart, the ’astonishing’ new novel from Sue Rainsford 👇 https://t.co/lwg7f2OTpe

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'Arrestingly precise and beautifully worked. This is a fine collection of short stories.' - Louise Kennedy

Cover design by the amazing Sarah Schulte 🐕
Background art by the incredible Kirsten Mosher🌊
Out March 19, and available to pre-order from https://t.co/kqAceTPNFX 📚

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FOUR NIGHT SEAS by Niamh Mac Cabe 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊

We are so excited to be publishing the debut collection from writer and artist @NiamhMacCabe!

Mac Cabe's stories take the ordinary - people, animals, trees - and casts them in a way that is beguiling fresh.

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Whether it's a lost child drawing maps in the sand, a greyhound silently shadowing a man to a mountain lake, or a schoolgirls first dance, Mac Cabe’s lyrical prose and inventive narrative structures evoke an eerie, tender intimacy.

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-institutional incarceration and the resilience to reclaim an identity the world has tried to silence.

Out 19 February, The Lock-Keeper's Wife is available to pre-order now ✨️

https://t.co/JjzreTNWms

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'One of the most evocative and beautifully written books I have read in a long time.' Marita Conlon-McKenna

We are delighted to reveal the cover for THE LOCK-KEEPER'S WIFE by JOHN MACKENNA 🌟

In rural mid-century Ireland, Julie McDermot lives an isolated life by the canal docks

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-with her unloving husband.

Haunted by grief and the aching absence of what might have been, a chance encounter with a stranger offers Julie the fragile possibility of hope. Deeply evocative, this stunning portrait of a woman's life explores Ireland's dark history of-

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Garry also spoke about our 50th anniversary and @pflonergan's new history book on Druid, 'Druid Theatre: Fifty Years', published by @LilliputPress.

You can listen back here: https://t.co/jpsU8shUB0

More info on 'Druid Theatre: Fifty Years': https://t.co/matES3AxdH

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In case you missed it, our artistic director Garry Hynes was on @RTERadio1 last weekend chatting to Dearbhail McDonald.

Garry picked 5 music tracks that spoke to different parts of her life including her college days in Galway and J1 summers in New York.

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Very grateful to everyone who has included our books on their end of year lists, and to everyone who has supported our authors this year 🌟

Support your local bookshop this holiday season, and make sure to show love to the booksellers, they keep this whole show going! 💪

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If you're still looking for the perfect book to settle down with over Christmas, or if you want to impress the reader in your life with a thoughtful gift, here are a few brilliant recommendations ❄️

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check out the rest of our titles on our website or call into your local bookshop and have a browse! 🎁 🌟

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A little bit of inspiration for anyone still looking for the perfect gift for the reader in their life 🎄

A huge thank you to Sarah Caden, Liadán Hynes, Jon Richards, Donal Fallon, Hilary A White and everyone who has been recommending our books this holiday season -

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Earlier this week, we gathered at @RIAMDublin for the Dublin launch of DRUID THEATRE: FIFTY YEARS by Patrick Lonergan, published by @LilliputPress.

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to some cosy Christmas reading (you deserve it!)

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Honoured to see a few of our books included alongside some stellar gift recommendations courtesy of the Irish Times Christmas Magazine🎄

Delight the bookish person in your life by getting any of these titles from your local bookshop, or treat yourself -

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More books for gift recommendations from last wk's papers @orionbooks @chlodavies97 @TrampPress @penguinrandom @leonoor_araujo @LilliputPress @ElaineEgan_ @HachetteIre @panmacmillan @GillHessLtd @MylesDungan1 @etruscan_press @ZaffreBooks @CormacKinsella @OneworldNews