Halfway up the Stairs
@halfwayupbooks.bsky.social
Award-winning Children’s Bookshop, Greystones, Co Wicklow, Ireland
www.halfwayupthestairs.ie
Mon - Sat 10-5:30. Closed Sundays & Bank Holidays
www.halfwayupthestairs.ie
Mon - Sat 10-5:30. Closed Sundays & Bank Holidays
Delighted to reveal the cover of War, the latest graphic novel by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin & Giovanni Rigano! This timely and thoughtful graphic novel for children of all ages publishes August 2026. Available to preorder here halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/9781... Published by Hodder Books.
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Delighted to reveal the cover of War, the latest graphic novel by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin & Giovanni Rigano! This timely and thoughtful graphic novel for children of all ages publishes August 2026. Available to preorder here halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/9781... Published by Hodder Books.
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
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...
@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
@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
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
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...
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
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...
A lovely evening celebrating six years with the team - old and new!
@sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social @amandadunne.bsky.social
@sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social @amandadunne.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
A lovely evening celebrating six years with the team - old and new!
@sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social @amandadunne.bsky.social
@sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social @amandadunne.bsky.social
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
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!
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
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!
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
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...
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/...
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
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/...
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/...
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
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
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
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
Come to meet Chris Judge this Saturday at 4pm!
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Come to meet Chris Judge this Saturday at 4pm!
2/ Watch this space for a very special window display coming soon 👀
We can’t wait for the Launch this Friday at 4pm in Greystones Library. If you would like to attend, please email info@halfwayupthestairs.ie
@sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
We can’t wait for the Launch this Friday at 4pm in Greystones Library. If you would like to attend, please email info@halfwayupthestairs.ie
@sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
2/ Watch this space for a very special window display coming soon 👀
We can’t wait for the Launch this Friday at 4pm in Greystones Library. If you would like to attend, please email info@halfwayupthestairs.ie
@sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
We can’t wait for the Launch this Friday at 4pm in Greystones Library. If you would like to attend, please email info@halfwayupthestairs.ie
@sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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
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.
Another inspirational day at @childrensbooksireland.ie #cbiconf25! This annual event is a tonic for all of us in the Irish Children’s Books world. Well done CBI crew!
September 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Another inspirational day at @childrensbooksireland.ie #cbiconf25! This annual event is a tonic for all of us in the Irish Children’s Books world. Well done CBI crew!
At the brilliant annual Children’s Books Ireland Conference with @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social
@childrensbooksireland.ie #CBIConf25
@childrensbooksireland.ie #CBIConf25
September 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
At the brilliant annual Children’s Books Ireland Conference with @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social
@childrensbooksireland.ie #CBIConf25
@childrensbooksireland.ie #CBIConf25
Thanks so much @louiestowell.bsky.social for visiting us this rainy Friday afternoon! We now have lots of signed copies of Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Causing Chaos in stock, with a cool Loki keyring with each purchase! halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/9781...
@walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
@walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Thanks so much @louiestowell.bsky.social for visiting us this rainy Friday afternoon! We now have lots of signed copies of Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Causing Chaos in stock, with a cool Loki keyring with each purchase! halfwayupthestairs.ie/product/9781...
@walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
@walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
Thank you so much to Book at One for their support and this beautiful plaque! The fund enabled us to run our Puffling Seaside Nature Trail over the summer.It was a huge success with many families enjoying the trail around the seafront in Greystones @gerrydalyart.bsky.social @erikamcgann.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Thank you so much to Book at One for their support and this beautiful plaque! The fund enabled us to run our Puffling Seaside Nature Trail over the summer.It was a huge success with many families enjoying the trail around the seafront in Greystones @gerrydalyart.bsky.social @erikamcgann.bsky.social
3/ We’ll miss your vast knowledge and incredible passion, as well as your good humour and wit, Amanda - we wish you the very best of luck with the PhD and look forward to seeing you in the shop for events and catch ups!
September 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
3/ We’ll miss your vast knowledge and incredible passion, as well as your good humour and wit, Amanda - we wish you the very best of luck with the PhD and look forward to seeing you in the shop for events and catch ups!
2/ …(and #Nibbies award winning bookseller), each month she carefully selected the perfect book for our many subscribers. Any of you lucky enough to have had a subscription will know the amount of effort she put in to those choices and the accompanying handwritten notes.
September 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
2/ …(and #Nibbies award winning bookseller), each month she carefully selected the perfect book for our many subscribers. Any of you lucky enough to have had a subscription will know the amount of effort she put in to those choices and the accompanying handwritten notes.
1/ A very big thank you to @amandadunne.bsky.social for her hard work and dedication to the shop since we opened in October 2019! Amanda has left us to work full time on her PhD in Children’s Literature - no better woman for such important research 💪. As our Subscriptions Coordinator…
September 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
1/ A very big thank you to @amandadunne.bsky.social for her hard work and dedication to the shop since we opened in October 2019! Amanda has left us to work full time on her PhD in Children’s Literature - no better woman for such important research 💪. As our Subscriptions Coordinator…
We are thrilled to present the Legends of Irish Children’s Literature in The Whale Theatre in Greystones on Sat Oct 18th: Tom McCaughren, Marita Conlon-McKenna and Don Conroy - in conversation with Laureate na nÓg, Patricia Forde. Tickets available here whaletheatre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
September 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
We are thrilled to present the Legends of Irish Children’s Literature in The Whale Theatre in Greystones on Sat Oct 18th: Tom McCaughren, Marita Conlon-McKenna and Don Conroy - in conversation with Laureate na nÓg, Patricia Forde. Tickets available here whaletheatre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...