New Island Books – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:43:13 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png New Island Books – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 The Late Night Writers Club https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-late-night-writers-club/ Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-late-night-writers-club/ In rich and abundant illustrations, Annie West tells a rowdy story of artistic struggle, ego and unexpected kindness. You will never look at the Irish Literary Canon in the same way again.

]]> A talented but annoying Debut Author, suffering from writer’s block and mysterious headaches, ghosted by his girlfriend and on his last chance with his bartender job, takes refuge in the National Library of Ireland, hoping for some last-minute inspiration within its hallowed walls.

Tortured by literary inadequacy and disappointed love, can he somehow absorb the famous modesty of Yeats, the wit of Edgeworth, the charm of Binchy, the wisdom of Heaney? But a weird twist of fate or perhaps a guiding hand reveals all is not what it seems in the library after dark, and The Debut Author soon discovers: be careful what you wish for.

In rich and abundant illustrations, Annie West tells a rowdy story of artistic struggle, ego and unexpected kindness. You will never look at the Irish Literary Canon in the same way again.

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