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Gaia Banks
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Literary agent at Sheil Land Associates. Fair-weather gardener. Repairer of broken things. Magpie. Polyglot. she/her.

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fhayesmccoy.bsky.social
Q: What's better than a bookshop that sells wool?
A: A bookshop that also has a cafe, sells musical instruments

Huge thanks to Joh and Sinéad at The Bookworm in Thurles (and apologies to Sinéad for interrupting the pricing process)

#Spéirgorm #OnceAYear #booksky @gaiabanks.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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'Weights and Measures' publishes today! I'd like to thank #AlanBilton, publisher #WatermarkPress, my husband, Philip at #NBDesign for the cover artwork, my agent @gaiabanks.bsky.social @sheilland.bsky.social, & the wonderful @fflurdafydd.bsky.social & #EurosLyn who were my first readers. Diolch.
October 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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rosemcgeewrites.bsky.social
SUCKER FOR YOU

🐙💕 Meet Isabel Wright! She’s got an octopus, a ring, and a tight timeline to get married. But something’s missing: a Mr. Wright… 💕🐙
Character intro graphic for Isabel Wright, showing a blonde woman, hiking boots, a Canadian stamp, an engagement ring, an octopus, a pill bottle, and a to-do list.
October 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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fhayesmccoy.bsky.social
Just heard that tickets for this workshop are selling well already.

Do come and join us in Dingle in November. It's a brilliant festival in a stunning place.

dinglelit.ie/news/event/h...

#Spéirgorm #writingcommunity #Ireland #Dingle #Books @dinglelit.bsky.social @gaiabanks.bsky.social
How to Shape a Story with Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Finding the right form can make or break even the best writing. Explore new creative directions in this relaxed and practical workshop.
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September 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Yay. I've just seen there's a ONE DAY ONLY SPECIAL PRICE on the EBOOK of my memoir #TheHouseOnAnIrishHillside

UK/Irl Link tinyurl.com/49pnac49
US Link tinyurl.com/3pf7y49u

Please share. Thanks, xf

#Spéirgorm #WritingCommunity #Booksky #EbookOffer

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September 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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@gaiabanks.bsky.social

#OnceAYear 🙂
roisinm.bsky.social Roisin Meaney 💙📚 @roisinm.bsky.social · Jul 14
#3goodthings
1. New playground. George approves.
Spoilt? No. Why do you ask?
2. Sneak peek copy of @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social's next. Delighted and looking forward. Out in October.
3. Sorely tempted in the local hardware shop. Resisted ... for now.
Cat playground with lots of cabouches. Tabby cat has chosen his cabouche. Cover of Once a Year by Felicity Hayes-McCoy. Chicken planter.
July 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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COVER REVEAL! 📚 💙

And flagging this PRE-ORDER COMPETITION from Irish indie booksellers omahonysbooks.bsky.social. There's an overnight for two at the Falls Hotel & Spa to be won INCLUDING dinner & a spa treatment! 👇 💖

@gaiabanks.bsky.social
#spéirgorm #booksky

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July 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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janicehallett.bsky.social
Yay! 🎉 #Retreat the film I co-wrote with its director Carl Tibbetts is on BBC 1 tomorrow night 😱Well, at 25 minutes past midnight, I guess it's Sunday really! After that it'll be on @BBCiPlayer 👀 Hope you enjoy this tense, psychological thriller 🫣
May 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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fhayesmccoy.bsky.social
Yay! Special US2.99 offer on The House on an Irish Hillside! Here's the Kobo link.

Offer expires 5/22/2025 so get yours now, US friends. (It applies on Amazon, Apple Books, B&N and Google too.)

Shares appreciated. 👇😊 www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

#Irish #memoir #booksky📚💙 #writingcommunity
The House on an Irish Hillside ebook by Felicity Hayes-McCoy - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The House on an Irish Hillside A Memoir" by Felicity Hayes-McCoy available from Rakuten Kobo. “A lovely writer, far superior to the average memoirist. . . . A curious mind, a perceptive observer...
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May 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Happy paperback publication day to #TheExaminer 🎓

Janice Hallett's fifth Sunday Times bestseller is as twisty and clever as ever. Get your paperback copy now and spend the bank holiday weekend enrolled in your masterclass in murder... 🦂🦂🦂

viperbooks.co.uk/work/the-exa... @janicehallett.bsky.social
A photograph of the paperback edition of The Examiner. There are two copies of the book, one showing the front cover and one showing the back cover. The photo is taken outside with some trees and greenery in the background.
May 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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If you’re picking up #TheExaminer in paperback, then check out this beautiful independent bookstore #limitededition 🤩 Not only signed by my own fair hand, but also sporting sinister scorpion spredges 🦂 What a treat! Special bookmarks are also available 🎓🔎 While stocks last!
May 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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TALK DATA TO ME made it into The Bookseller as a preview romance title for August—and it’s gonna be a 🔥 month with @lianainbloom.bsky.social @ivyfairbanks.bsky.social and more!
An image of the August romance preview page from The Bookseller, which shows titles from Rose McGee (Talk Data to Me), Ivy Fairbanks (Heart Strings), Liana De La Rosa (Gabriella and His Grace), among others.
May 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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rosemcgeewrites.bsky.social
Cover reveal, #writingcommunity!

TALK DATA TO ME: The Love Hypothesis meets You’ve Got Mail in this sweet and sexy STEMinist romcom. 🔬💫💕

Coming August 7!
Book cover for Talk Data to Me, in which two rival physicists face off over a desk cluttered with coffee mugs, Sudoku grids, and solar system models. Enemies—or are they? “They’re polar opposites. But their attraction is magnetic…”
May 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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It was great to be part of tonight's episode of Who Do You Think You Are? which airs 9pm on BBC One. The programme uncovers a remarkable Irish family story. (Also, Aisling Bea is some woman for one woman!)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

#Spéirgorm #ancestry #Irish #Roots #CorcaDhuibhne
May 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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fhayesmccoy.bsky.social
Sending love and thanks on #IrelandReadsDay to all the brilliant #booksellers (and #librarians) whose lives inspired my recent #Finfarran novel #TheBooksellersGift, and whose energy, hard work and charm are bringing it to readers. xx 💞

#Spéirgorm #booksky #Irish #writing @gaiabanks.bsky.social
Author Felicity Hayes-McCoy in an Irish bookshop, smiling and holding a pile of copies of her 2024 novel The Bookseller's Gift (which is set in an Irish bookshop).
February 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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fhayesmccoy.bsky.social
Delighted to know that a piece by Zdenko Matoz featuring the #Slovenian translations of my novels has appeared on Delo's Culture page. In English, its heading translates as "Love of Books Changes Everything"

#Booksky #translation @gaiabanks.bsky.social
#books #fiction #novels #Slovenia #Ireland
January 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Thank you to my pal @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social for The Bookseller's Gift. I love to read in season, so this kept me good company over the past few days. A warm and hopeful novel that vividly evokes a small town sense of community and the relationship threads that run through it.
December 28, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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fhayesmccoy.bsky.social
Exceedingly chuffed by this.

(Especially coming from @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social , An Post Irish Book Awards' Bookshop Of The Year 2024!)

#Booksky📚 #SpéirGorm @gaiabanks.bsky.social
December 21, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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fhayesmccoy.bsky.social
Still blown away that #TheBooksellersGift is #1 on National Book Tokens' ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS BOOK LIST & one of their Best Book Gifts for Christmas 2024

Please share & tell the world! xf

#choosebooks #choosebookshops #shoplocal #festivereading #Booksky #writingcommunity #booksaremybag #spéirgorm
December 16, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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This is Roxy. Her head is almost the same size as her body. This is because she is very, very smart. 12/10
a german shepherd puppy is curled into a tight little loaf on a light colored sofa. she has her front paws tucked under themselves at the wrist, and the tip of her tail is tucked in under her body as well. her pointy ears have little tufts of fur at the base. she looks a little sleepy and a lot cozy.
December 16, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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Featuring The Bookseller’s Gift by @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social

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Christmas Gift Guide 2024
Enjoy our highlights from the Christmas Books 2024 catalogue, with novels, memoirs and kids' books by bestselling and beloved authors, as well as perfect presents to treasure forever - all available f...
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December 16, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by @janicehallett.bsky.social is in the NYT’s list of Best 10 thrillers of 2024!
December 16, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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cjrauthor.bsky.social
No 1 status captured! Can’t say bestseller cos free. Love that I’m either side of Dame Jilly further down the actual bestseller list
Apple Books Top Free and bestseller lists - Corkscrew You at #1 in Free and Kiss My Glass at 21 and You’re So Vine at 23 in bestsellers, either side of Dame Jilly Cooper’s Riders, a favourite read of my younger more impressionable days
December 13, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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@cjrauthor.bsky.social’s swoony, hilarious CORKSCREW YOU is Apple U.K. free book of the week, and riding high at #1! 💙📚

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Apple Books U.K. Free Book of the Week - CORKSCREW YOU by Catherine Robertson CORKSCREW YOU by Catherine Robertson - 1 in the Apple U.K. free books chart Catherine Robertson’s novels KISS MY GLASS and YOU’RE SO VINE in the Apple U.K. Romance chart
December 13, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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💙📚 #24for24
#favouritebooksof2024
12 - The Examiner - @janicehallett.bsky.social Every book, you think you’re going to spot the twist in Janice Hallett’s books. And every time she pulls the rug from under you. The Examiner is another book you have to re-read immediately.
Cover of The Examiner by Janice Hallett
December 12, 2024 at 3:32 PM