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Photo by Amy Reed via Unsplash There’s no doubt that Ireland has produced a lot of excellent authors so here’s a little round up of some of my favourites.  Feel free to chip in with your personal favourite author or  book. There are so many that I feel like I’ve

Photo by Garth Manthe via Unsplash The weather is set to be pretty blowy across most of the UK this weekend with storms Dudley and Eunice chasing each other across the country bringing high winds and a lot of rain. What better way to spend some time than with some

The Care and Maintenance of Books    So, now you’ve got a little collection, whether it’s vintage paperbacks or new signed hardbacks with lovely spredges and beautiful dustwrappers, you’re going to want to look after them, right?  So here’s the Gently Used Book Club guide to caring for your books. 

Where to start when you decide to create an Agatha Christie collection? First let’s look at the scale of the task. She wrote 66 novels and 14 short story collections, so it’s no small feat to collect them all.  Let’s have a look at some of your options.   Well,

Today is National Writing Day so I have two things. Firstly one of the day’s activities is to write a small piece (the size of a post-it note) on the theme of connection.  I’ve not been writing much recently so I thought I’d have a go and see what came