Great news for OBP this week with the announcement of the shortlist for the Reading Association of Ireland Awards 2009. Shortlisted titles include The Poison Throne, the stunning debut from Celine Kiernan, critically-acclaimed author Conor Kostick’s latest book, Move, the gorgeously illustrated and sweet story Hal’s Sleepover by Maddie Stewart, Wild Dublin by Eanna Ni [...]
It’s been a week of Bookspotting in The O’Brien Press. Firstly, there was Bono and The Stolen Village (not the bizarre new title of a U2 album, just check out the post below for an explanation!) Then a staff member (who chooses to remain anonymous!) was watching the movie Shrooms where the doomed hapless tourists [...]
Last Saturday’s Sunday Times Magazine cover story, ‘Bono the shades come off’ (21 June 2009) by Chrissy Iley, mentions that Bono always has a few books on the go, we think that one of them in particular is an excellent choice: “There are books everywhere. He likes to read about three at once. Currently there’s [...]
In the publishing business things tend to happen slowly, and in a certain order. A lot of the time it is easy for publishers to perceive rights business as a happy addendum to their main business (apart from those publishers for whom coeditions are a core part of their business model, but they are rare [...]