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Eoin Purcell's Blog

http://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com

It is a blog for my thoughts on publishing, books, history the web,a little bit of politics and whatever else takes my fancy.

• Added on: May 7th, 2006
• Country: Ireland
• Language: English

• Listed in: News & Media Books Writing
• Tags: books publishing bookselling future of books future of publishing e-publishing

Recent Posts

• Christmas Books Special – 2009 – Part 4 of 4 Children’s

  Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 10:34 in books, publishing, recommendations, christmas

  It is difficult when writing about such a huge category as Children’s books, which as within it so many genres and sub genres, to choose just three books, but somehow I have managed it. Ancient Folk Tales of Ireland Ancient Folk Tales of Irelan...

• Christmas Books Special – 2009 – Part 3 of 4 History

  Posted on Monday December 7th, 2009 at 16:46 in books, publishing, recommendations, christmas, best of

  Straight into this edition. To read part 1 and part 2, click the links! Empires Of The Sea Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521 – 1580 Roger Crowley also wrote Constantinople: The Last Great Siege. That was a good book. ...

• Christmas Books Special – 2009 – Part 2 of 4

  Posted on Sunday December 6th, 2009 at 06:15 in books, reviews, authors, General, christmas, suggestions, bookselling

  Sci-fi & Fantasy today It is a difficult thing to hold my list to three books in this post (and so cheekily I’ve chosen some series based books). I have read some incredible sci-fi and fantasy books over the last year, some of which have re...

• Publishing Success in Ireland, Part Five, Summing Up

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 16:49 in books, business, publishing, authors, Ireland, book marketing, bookselling, future of books, irish publishing, publishing companies, irish creative industries, irish books

  This series has been an exciting and interesting one for me to write and research. The first four parts are the real meat. You can read them one by one: Publishing Success In Ireland, Part One Publishing Success In Ireland, Part Two Publishing Succe...

• Christmas Books Special – 2009 – Part 1 of 4 Food & Drink

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 16:08 in books, reviews, cooking, publishing, christmas, bookselling, food & drink, irish publishing

  I normally run a recommendation post for fiction and non-fiction books every Christmas. This year I’m having a tough time narrowing the field down so I’ve decided to do it a bit differently, I am going to suggest 3 books for each of the f...

• An Irish Books Update – Saturday 05/12/2009

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 15:12 in books, reading, authors, future of books, irish publishing, irish times, irish creative industries

  Coming into Christmas, the reviews come thick and fast so I thought I would update. Local History gets a good look in in the Irish Times! The Derry Journal has an interesting article by Claire Allen, author of Writing Rainy Days And Tuesday. Oddly e...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

davidbdale

Good to see you here, Eoin! First-rate stuff. Thank you especially for the "heads-up" about Authonomy.com. I've submitted my email address for updates. Sounds intriguing. See you at the Reading Room!

Posted: October 13th, 2007 | More Reviews From davidbdale | Report This Comment

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