Recs if you like Hagstone...

Book covers with typography oriented in non-standard alignments, instead of the typical horizontal + left to right text alignment. Or: graphic design is my passion, and today we are learning about text paths 🙂‍↕️. This is an immensely silly List, and always open to suggestions—vertical text, circular, upside down, anything goes!

Hauntology is the philosophical concept, as quoted by Mark Fisher from his article taking a deeper look into Derrida's philosophical work, that "the present is always haunted by the ghosts of the past and the unfulfilled promises of the future." From generational trauma to dark histories to dying Old World pagan traditions, these elements persist throughout the wide genre of folk horror. These books explore deeply into the hauntings of the past and the instability of the future.

Books featuring mythology, legends and folklore from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. (For the purpose of this list 'Ireland' encompasses the entirety of Ireland (Northern & Republic) as the historical mythos is largely the same since the split happened in the 1900's.)

All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.

Books with iconic and crazy twists

A collection of books by Irish authors that I've loved or am looking forward to!

books in which the cover has lime green font

(weirdly lots of horror?)

A love letter to female Irish writers.

Ongoing.

Fiction (mainly lit fic) from Ireland and Northern Ireland

Books from the Florence and the Machine book club @betweentwobooks on IG

(I am not the book club admin, just a fan, and these are not all the books but I will add them all in soon, I promise)

I'm Irish and a writer, and Ireland is famously the land of saints, scholars and scéaleanna, so here's my list of the best Irish writing, old and new, from all genres!

Circled by treacherous seas and liminal shores, magic ebbs—dances—shimmers in everyday island life…

A list with unreliable narrators, morally gray characters and uneasy feelings.

spooky or even horror books for all who usually don‘t read spooky or horror books bc they are a little scared

Just some great Irish books

books that are either based on irish mythology, based in ireland and/or written by irish authors

Authors of Ireland, writing in the 2010s and 2020s.