About Us

Our Philosophy

To be everything a brilliant independent local bookshop can be - welcoming, helpful, tranquil and brimful of ideas.  

To provide a complete year-round service for Dingle readers and residents and the thousands of holiday makers who visit here from Ireland, Europe and the USA - whatever your age and reading interests.

Our Service

We have a big selection of print and audio books for you to browse...tips on current best sellers and favourites... readings and book launches to give you a chance to meet writers in person and to whet your reading appetite.

If we don’t have exactly what you want in stock
          •    we can order any title in print, or
         •    help you locate an out of print book

We’re happy to gift wrap and mail books to anywhere in the world

You’re welcome to order a book or contact us online.  Or call us with a book query on 00353 (0) 66 9152433 Mondays to Saturdays 10 am to 6 pm.

What’s on our shelves

Fiction - everything from bestsellers to classics

Irish interest: fiction by Irish writers -  history and politics - poetry and drama - biography and memoir - books in Irish -  legend and fairy tales - Irish language learning, grammar and dictionaries

Local Interest - the writers of the Great Blasket Island - Tom Crean - the making of Ryan’s Daughter - poets, memoirists and artists of the Dingle Peninsula

Non fiction: popular science - history - current events - memoir

Poetry and drama

Vital Titles - our personal choice of essential reading old and new

Young adult  -  an imaginative selection of titles for this demanding age group

Children - picture books  for the 0-4s - top titles for the 5-8s and 8-13s - children’s classics

Religion - philosophy - popular psychology -  mind body spirit

Writers’ corner

Reference

Travel: guide books - a selection of the best in contemporary and classic
travel writing

Maps

Audio books

Greeting cards, including our exclusive range of Poetry Postcards specially commissioned from local writers.