The Lilliput Press, one of Ireland’s leading independent publishing houses, seeks a part-time bookseller for the period June–December 2022. This role is in-person only and is an opportunity to experience the front line of Irish bookselling and publishing in a creative and friendly work environment. This role will be a part-time, 6-month contract on the pay rate of €25,000 per annum pro rata (the equivalent of €13.00 per hour). The hours are from 10am to 2pm, Monday to Friday. Additional hours may be required from time to time to help with evening book events. Key responsibilities will include: Overseeing and moving bookshop inventory, tracking out-of-stock or out-of-print titles, stocking shelves, restocking distributors and ensuring that…

Join Lilliput Press for the launch of The Written World: Essays and Reviews, the highly-anticipated first non-fiction title from acclaimed novelist, critic and essayist, Kevin Power. Thursday, 19 May, 6PM at Books Upstairs. Carlo Gébler will be the guest speaker on the evening. We look forward to welcoming you all! Book your free ticket here. Criticism is absolutely an art – and it is never more so than when practised by an actual artist. During his ten years at the Sunday Business Post, novelist Kevin Power – who has reviewed over 350 books – fell in love with the writing of criticism, and with the reading of it too; particularly by talented novelists who review books on…

Join Lilliput Press for the launch of Edith, the highly-anticipated new novel from bestselling author and award-winning journalist, Martina Devlin. Thursday, 12 May, 2022, 6PM, at The James Joyce Centre (Dublin). With support from Books Upstairs. Actor Lise-Ann McLaughlin, star of The Irish R.M., will be the guest speaker on the evening. We look forward to welcoming you all! Book your free ticket here. Edith is a captivating novel based on the life of Edith Somerville (1858–1949) of ‘Somerville and Ross’ fame. It is the early 1920s and Ireland is on the cusp of radical change. Amid the turbulence of the revolutionary period, The Irish R.M. writer Edith Somerville struggles to find a place for herself. As fellow members of…

The Lilliput Press is greatly saddened to hear of the death of Kevin Casey, author of The Sinners’ Bell and A State of Mind. Publisher Antony Farrell says of the author, ‘He was an élégant gentle man whose nuanced fiction spoke to the buried passions of Irish provincial life: a much missed figure following on from the death of his wife Eavan Boland.’ Our thoughts are with Kevin’s family at this difficult time.

In 1961 J.P. Donleavy published a stage play called Fairytales of New York; this mutated into a 341-page novel released in September 1973 titled A Fairy Tale of New York. On 17 November 1987 Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl, with Steve Lillywhite, produced a single that was to became the most celebrated Christmas song on the planet. In December 2020 a cancel culture, combatted by Nick Cave, bowdlerised its lyrics while Johnny Depp’s documentary film on MacGowan is also being screened. If you google A Fairy Tale of New York, you will find Donleavy’s comically anarchic original novel available as an ebook on the website hosted by The Lilliput Press. When MacGowan visited J.P. Donleavy…