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Halfway up the Stairs
@halfwayupbooks.bsky.social
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Award-winning Children’s Bookshop, Greystones, Co Wicklow, Ireland
www.halfwayupthestairs.ie
Mon - Sat 10-5:30. Closed Sundays & Bank Holidays
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Just finished The Lone Husky by Hannah Gold - this is a wonderful adventure full of heart - I’d highly recommend it. Stunning illustrations by Levi Pinfold add to the atmosphere. I am determined to visit the Arctic some day! Available in store and online halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/9780...
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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@eilishfisher.bsky.social just popped in to sign copies of Fia and the Last Deer (now out in a beautiful paperback edition!) and also the The Waters and the Wild! Available in store and online at www.halfwayupthestairs.ie
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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This record player from @myirishbooks.ie will make a great gift! Choose from 36 tracks with extras available to purchase. Available in store and online halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/5392...
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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We are running our Lucky Dip right through midterm! So pop in this week to choose a surprise book for only €5, or order online here halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/Luck...
October 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Loved having @sineadohart.bsky.social and @unawoods.bsky.social visit us for lots of Ellora fun yesterday!
sineadohart.bsky.social Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social · 16d
Delighted to have joined @unawoods.bsky.social at @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social yesterday for some banshee shenanigans!

If you haven't voted for us in the Children's Book of the Year (Junior) Category over at @irishbookawards.bsky.social, whaddya waiting for?

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October 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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A lovely evening celebrating six years with the team - old and new!
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October 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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We 💛 bookshops: special and magical places...

As the #IrishBookWeek festivities continue, we’re delighted to have author Paddy Donnelly join us to share what makes bookshops feel brilliant for him 📖✨

#ChooseBookshops @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social 📚
A warm cream background with a small photo of author Paddy Donnelly, and the cover of his work Badger Books. A white text box with dark blue text reads: "Bookshops are very special and magical places to me. One of my absolute favourite bookshops to visit is Halfway Up the Stairs in Greystones. I'm always amazing at the personal service their knowledgeable staff give to their customers. I've been there a few times to paint on their front window; I had the pleasure of eavesdropping as their staff chat with both children and grown-ups, and deliver amazingly custom reading recommendations. When you write and illustrate picture books, you usually populate them with little details from your life that are important to you. As Halfway Up the Stairs have been so supportive to me in my career, I managed to slip the bookshop into the background of an illustration in Badger Books."
October 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Join us to celebrate #IrishBookWeek and our 6th birthday on Saturday- we’ll have lots of brilliant promotions on throughout the day, as well as an author event at 3pm with Sinéad O’Hart and Úna Woods!
October 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Thanks so much to Natasha Mac a’Bhaird for calling in to sign copies of her books, The Tower Ghost and her latest, The Vanished Girl, yesterday! We love this mystery series set in a boarding school in Donegal!
October 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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‘The idea of home has evolved for me—it’s not so much about looking back, but looking forward’

📗Catch Dagogo Hart at the @dublinbookfest.bsky.social on Friday 07th November📗

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'For me, home is a bridge'—Dagogo Hart - Books Ireland
Ruth Ennis talks to Dagogo Hart about his first book for children, Lantern Smoke (Gill Books).
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October 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Seeing as it's #IrishBookWeek, I've put together a Starter Pack of bricks 'n' mortar bookshops. Terrified I've forgotten someone obvious so please let me know of additions
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October 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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The Irish Invented Halloween, so Where are Our Stories?

From Pookas to Pagan Gods, Spirits to Selkies, Irish children’s books bring spooky season back to its roots

Article by Ellen Ryan

discoveririshkidsbooks.ie/the-irish-in...

Image by Úna Woods from Have You Seen the Dublin Vampire?
October 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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1/ We can’t wait to welcome our good friends @sineadohart.bsky.social & @unawoods.bsky.social this coming Sat at 3pm! They will read and draw front their brilliant new book, Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee. You can order a copy to be signed here halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/9781...
October 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Our Legends of Irish Children’s Literature family event is this Saturday in The Whale Theatre!

Come to see Marita Conlon-McKenna, Tom McCaughren and Don Conroy, talking to our Laureate na nÓg, Patricia Forde!

Tickets available here: whaletheatre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
October 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Thanks so much for @amyclarkinwrites for dropping in today to sign copies of all three books from her What Walks These Halls series! Order the latest, Where the Shadows Hide, here halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/9781... @theobrienpress
October 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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We are delighted to have Chris Judge @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social today fir an Evil Duck event. Signed copies available in store!
October 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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We are delighted to have Chris Judge @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social today fir an Evil Duck event. Signed copies available in store!
October 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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We can't wait for our special book event at The Whale Theatre in Greystones on Saturday 18th October at 2pm. Hosted by @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social
Marita Conlon-McKenna, Tom McCaughren and Don Conroy - in coversation with Patricia Forde.
Tickets here: whaletheatre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
October 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Great excitement today for the new Bunny vs Monkey - Intergalactic Monkey Business by @jamiesmart.bsky.social ! This is such a popular series 🐰 🐒 ! Available in store or online halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/9781... @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Come to meet Chris Judge this Saturday at 4pm!
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Look who’s behind our new Run Home, Little Fox window @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social - by @shannonbergin.bsky.social
It’s Trish!
The author of this beautiful book, Tom McCaughren (with Erika McGann) will be talking & signing @ The Whale Theatre Sat 18th Oct 2pm with Marita Conlon-McKenna & Don Conroy!
October 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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@louiestowell.bsky.social Hello, picked up a signed copy of your latest Loki from our local friendly bookshop @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social The boy loved it, he’s grown up with your books and they’re like going back to an old friend
September 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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PS I love halfway up the stairs to much!
September 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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1/ Look at this beauty!!! The Waters and the Wild by @eilishfisher.bsky.social, illustrated by David Rooney is now available in store and online from halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/9780.... We have some signed copies in store, but if you would like a dedicated copy just leave the name in the Notes.
September 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM