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Black Friday Week Discounts!

Black Friday Week Discounts!

Sweet Reads is happy to offer our customers the following discounts for Black Friday Week (17-26 November).

  • Spend over €20.00 and get 10% off your order.
  • Spend over €50.00 and get 20% off your order.
  • Spend over €100.00 and get 25% off your order.

Discounts will be applied automatically at check-out.

Many thanks. And happy shopping!

[PLEASE NOTE: The following items are excluded from the above offer - Exam Papers, Study Aids. Sweet Reads Gift Vouchers and Pre-Orders]

Offer ends on Sunday 26th November at 11.30PM.

Top Ten Bestsellers - Fiction

Top Ten Bestsellers - Fiction

Here are our current Top 10 bestselling fiction titles (as of 13/09/23). The top 6 dominated by Irish authors!

All titles available in-store or online.

1: Aisling Ever After by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen

2: Camino Royale by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

3: No One Saw a Thing by Andrea Mara

4: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

5: Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry

6: Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue

7: The List by Yomi Adegoke

8: Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lapena

9: Holly by Stephen King

10: The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri

Dungeons & Dragons: Bestsellers of 2023 (so far!)

Dungeons & Dragons: Bestsellers of 2023 (so far!)

One area of our store that continues to grow and grow in popularity is our Dungeons & Dragons section. And with the new D&D movie on the way, we're expecting interest to spike once again!

So we thought it'd be timely to share our current D&D bestsellers.

All available in-store or online.

1: Dungeons & Dragons RPG Starter Set: Dragons of Stormwreck Isle

2: Dungeons & Dragons - The Great Dalmuti - Card Game

3: Dungeons & Dragons: Essentials Kit

4: Dungeons & Dragons: Player's Handbook

5: Dungeons & Dragons the Legend of Drizzt Board Game

6: Dungeons & Dragons: Monster Manual

7: Dungeons & Dragons RPG Dungeon Tiles Reincarnated: City

8: Dungeons & Dragons RPG Core Rulebooks Gift Set

9: Oakie Doakie - RPG Dice Set Glow in the Dark - Deep Ocean (7 dice)

10: Oakie Doakie Dice RPG Set Solid - Blue (7 Dice)

Top 10 Bestsellers for Preschool Children (2023)

Top 10 Bestsellers for Preschool Children (2023)

There are so many fabulous, colourful, funny and charming books for young kids on the market now.

And here are our Top 10 bestsellers (of 2023, so far!) for preschool children.

All titles available in-store or online.

1: Jonny Lambert's Farm by Johnny Lambert

2: Peppa Pig: Peppa and Family

3: Listen to the Farm by Marion Billet

4: Ladybird First Favourite Nursery Rhymes

5: The Highway Rat by Julia Donaldson

6: Pop-Up Peekaboo! Bedtime

7: What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside by Julia Donaldson

8: Find Spot at the Zoo : A Lift-the-Flap Story by Eric Hill

9: Peep Inside Dinosaurs by Anna Milbourne

10: Poppy and Sam's Complete Book of Farmyard Tales (40th Anniversary Edition) by Heather Amery

Top Ten Bestsellers - Fiction

Top Ten Bestsellers - Fiction

Here are our Top 10 bestselling fiction titles (as of 11/3/23). A strong showing for Irish authors.

All titles available in-store or online.

1: Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

2: My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor

3: Exiles by Jane Harper

4: The Letter by Josephine Cox

5: Someone Else’s Shoes by JoJo Moyes

6: The Close by Jane Casey

7: Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry

8: Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover

9: It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover

10: The Home Scar by Kathleen MacMahon

Top 10 Christmas Bestsellers

Top 10 Christmas Bestsellers

Here are our Top 10 bestselling titles for Christmas 2022!

All titles available in-store or online (while stocks last).

1: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper Överlöde by Jeff Kinney

2: Limerick - A Stroll Down Memory Lane (Volume 22) by Seán Curtin

3: All on the Line by Pádraic Maher

4: It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover

5: Time and Tide by Charlie Bird

6: Limerick: A Biography in Nine Lives by Arthur James O'Dea

7: Kellie by Kellie Harrington (with Roddy Doyle)

8: The Road to Riverdance by Bill Whelan

9: Richard Harris: Raising Hell and Reaching for Heaven by Joe Jackson

10: What Makes us Human by Luke O'Neill

TOP 10 BESTSELLERS (ALL CATEGORIES)

TOP 10 BESTSELLERS (ALL CATEGORIES)

Our (current) Top 10 bestselling titles (all categories). Some sport, some local history, lots of fiction!

All titles available in-store or online.

1: Limerick: A Biography in Nine Lives by Arthur James O'Dea

2: The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan

3: Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris

4: Forever Home by Graham Norton

5: It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover

6: I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

7: Limerick - A Stroll Down Memory Lane (Volume 22) by Seán Curtin

8: The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman

9: All the Things Left Unsaid by Michael Harding

10: No Plan B by Lee Child

New Hardback Classics (Wordsworth)

Some lovely new (and very affordable) hardback classics have just arrived in. Look how pretty they are!

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Oliver Twist

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Moby Dick

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Robinson Crusoe

Mrs Dalloway

Frankenstein

Romeo and Juliet

 

 

TOP 10 BESTSELLERS (ALL CATEGORIES)

TOP 10 BESTSELLERS (ALL CATEGORIES)

Our (current) Top 10 bestselling titles (all categories).

All titles available in-store or online.

1: Yours, Mine, Ours by Sinéad Moriarty

2: Deception by Lesley Pearse

3: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

4: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

5: All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover

6: Life Before Us by Roisin Meaney

7: One of the Girls by Lucy Clarke

8: Solitaire by Alice Oseman

9: My Hero Academia Vol 1 by Kohei Horikoshi

10: Verity by Colleen Hoover

We Are Hiring!

We Are Hiring!

Interested in joining the Sweet Reads/Crescent Bookshop team? We currently have a full-time position available.
REQUIREMENTS
Previous retail experience is ESSENTIAL (minimum of 3 years, ideally).
Preference will be given to candidates with previous bookselling experience.
Candidates must be fully flexible and available to work late evenings, weekdays and weekends as required.
Please apply with CV to crescentbookshoplk@gmail.com or drop CV into the store.
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