Chapters Bookstore Parnell Street

Chapters Bookstore Parnell Street An Post Bookshop of the Year 🎉🎉Chapters is Ireland's largest independent bookshop selling new, bargain & secondhand books! Trade Ins always welcome!

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LOOK WHO CAME IN! 👀Myles Dungan is one of those infuriating people who knows an enormous amount and can make all of it i...
20/08/2026

LOOK WHO CAME IN! 👀

Myles Dungan is one of those infuriating people who knows an enormous amount and can make all of it interesting. A prolific, lively and wonderfully wide-ranging writer and broadcaster, he has written history for grown-ups & children, biography & fiction, while apparently finding time to know lots about lots of other things too.

I have been to many of Myles’s conversations at Hinterland, and I always come away thinking the same thing: the man has a MASSIVE free-range brain. I’m fairly sure it requires its own archive catalogue!

His new book, The Plot Against Ireland, takes on one of the wildest episodes in nineteenth-century Irish politics: forged letters, spies, conmen, terrorists, Parnell, The Times, Queen Victoria and the extraordinary lengths the British political establishment was willing to go to discredit Home Rule.

Deep history, dirty tricks and Myles’s mordant wit: exactly the sort of book that makes 400 pages feel like excellent gossip!

Available now online and instore!

🚨 SIGNED LIANE MORIARTY. IN IRELAND. 🚨That is not an everyday sentence!Liane Moriarty is Australian and lives in Sydney,...
20/08/2026

🚨 SIGNED LIANE MORIARTY. IN IRELAND. 🚨

That is not an everyday sentence!

Liane Moriarty is Australian and lives in Sydney, so signed editions do not make their way to Irish bookshops very often. This is a genuinely rare opportunity to own one and these are EXCLUSIVELY SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS, signed on the title page.

And it gets better!

Big Little Truths is Moriarty’s first-ever sequel, returning to the world of Big Little Lies more than a decade later. Madeline, Celeste and Jane are back. Their children are now teenagers. Old secrets are stirring. And someone has sent a severed human finger to the school…

Publishing 27th August and available to preorder now. We genuinely cannot imagine these staying around for long!

SIGNED!! FIRST EDITION!!



posted this yesterday, saying was “killing it with this display”.Quite literally, judging by the books.I sent it into...
20/08/2026

posted this yesterday, saying was “killing it with this display”.

Quite literally, judging by the books.

I sent it into the group chat and discovered three things:

(a) Summerween is an actual bookish phenomenon, grown organically from readers wanting spooky, gothic and deeply unsettling books while everyone else is buying sun cream.

(b) Princess has her finger so firmly on the pulse that she may actually be responsible for its stopping.

(c) You are all ghouls.

The sun is still shining. At least, it was. The evenings are still long. There may yet be ice cream. And what do you want to read about?

Haunted houses. Murderous families. Strange rituals. Monsters. Curses. Cannibalism. Enough existential dread to blot out the daylight.

Apparently October is not a month. It is a reading mood.

Princess: 1
The rest of us, still shelving cheerful summer novels: 0

The 'You Wished for This' table is on the shop floor now.

Clearly, you did 😱

Two buildings. Two extraordinary pieces of non-fiction. Several worlds quietly unravelling inside them.🏨 The Finest Hote...
20/08/2026

Two buildings. Two extraordinary pieces of non-fiction. Several worlds quietly unravelling inside them.

🏨 The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet tells the recent history of Afghanistan through the Inter-Continental Hotel and the people who kept it running through decades of war, occupation and political upheaval. Deeply human, beautifully constructed and winner of the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. Releases on 27th August - preorder your copy now to have on launch day!

🏰 The Castle marks Jon Ronson’s return with his first book in eleven years. It begins when his son is lured to a mysterious castle in New England and expands into a darkly funny, deeply strange investigation of male anxiety, internet delusion, lost purpose and a generation of “unravelling men” - launches 20th August.

If your idea of a relaxing read is calmly investigating Afghanistan’s recent history or the masculinity crisis, we have had an excellent day for you.

How organised are you?📚 Organised enough to be planning your winter reading?🎄 Or terrifyingly organised enough to be thi...
20/08/2026

How organised are you?

📚 Organised enough to be planning your winter reading?

🎄 Or terrifyingly organised enough to be thinking about that certain time in December?!

There. We said the C word. In August. We’re sorry.

From Thursday 20th until Monday 31st August, get 20% OFF all Mystery Box bundles

A box of 6 bookish surprises for yourself, or a ready-made gift for somebody else - frankly, Future You will be unbearably pleased with Present You.
Our Mystery Box bundles include:
🚀 Sci-Fi & Fantasy
🔎 Mystery & Crime
☘️ Irish Writers
🏛️ History
🍳 Cookery
⚽ Sports
🧸 Children’s
✨ Young Adult & Teen
🏺 Classics
🖤 Cult Fiction
👤 Biographies

Use code Mystery20 at checkout.

Online only. Offer ends 31st August.

🚨 SIGNED ROBERT HARRIS AT CHAPTERS 🚨Yes, we are shouting. This is entirely shout-worthy!AGRIPPA, the new novel from the ...
19/08/2026

🚨 SIGNED ROBERT HARRIS AT CHAPTERS 🚨

Yes, we are shouting. This is entirely shout-worthy!

AGRIPPA, the new novel from the number-one bestselling author of CONCLAVE, publishes on 27th August and our copies are an EXCLUSIVE SIGNED EDITION!

Robert Harris returns to Ancient Rome. Julius Caesar is dead. Seventeen-year-old Octavius is his heir; Agrippa is his closest friend. Together they take on the giants of the Roman world and win. Octavius becomes Emperor Augustus. Agrippa becomes the man guarding his back.

Twenty years later, Agrippa begins writing his memoirs and the old story of friendship, loyalty, power and betrayal starts to look rather different.

Julius Caesar. Mark Antony. Cleopatra. The Battle of Actium. The birth of an empire. And one gloriously dangerous question: when power is everything, can friendship survive?

PRE-ORDER NOW FOR A SIGNED COPY!!

We cannot emphasise the signed part enough. Although, as you can see, we are giving it our very best effort.



ALL THEM DOGS are back on the floor. 🐕🖤💛Djamel White’s electrifying debut has returned after selling out AGAIN, and we h...
19/08/2026

ALL THEM DOGS are back on the floor. 🐕🖤💛

Djamel White’s electrifying debut has returned after selling out AGAIN, and we have restored order with what we believe to be an entirely sensible number of copies.

Longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize, All Them Dogs is a fierce, fast-moving and unexpectedly tender journey into the West Dublin criminal underworld. White is the only Irish author on this year’s longlist and, at 28, its youngest writer. It is mouthy, dangerous, funny, visceral and very difficult to put down.

Copies are €16.99 and waiting just inside the door.

And do have a look at what else has landed on the floor: Black Bag, The Renovation, The End of Everything, The Shadow of the Object, May We Feed the King, The Palm House and a great many other Booker, brand-new and altogether irresistible delights.

Come in for Djamel White. Leave carrying three additional books you had absolutely no intention of buying. This is the traditional Chapters experience.

⚡ SECONDHAND AT THREE: BOWIE! ⚡Ground Control appears to have sent us an entire shelf!Biographies, photography, criticis...
19/08/2026

⚡ SECONDHAND AT THREE: BOWIE! ⚡

Ground Control appears to have sent us an entire shelf!

Biographies, photography, criticism, Bowie’s heroes, Stardust and some of the finest haircuts ever committed to print.

One of the books asks Why Bowie Matters? We feel the rest of the pile constitutes fairly compelling supporting evidence.

All are secondhand, which means every copy is a one-off. If you have been waiting for a sign to begin or expand your Bowie collection, the lightning bolt seems reasonably clear.

Instore and online now!⚡

A flock of Orange Penguins has winged its way to Secondhand. They are slightly battered, exceptionally well travelled an...
18/08/2026

A flock of Orange Penguins has winged its way to Secondhand. They are slightly battered, exceptionally well travelled and considerably more interesting than most people.

A special mention for John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos. Published in 1957, it is one of the defining classics of postwar British science fiction: an apparently ordinary English village, a mysteriously lost day and a group of deeply unsettling golden-eyed children. It was later filmed as Village of the Damned, and its influence can still be felt throughout science fiction and horror.

We sell bucketloads of the new edition, so finding this wonderful old Orange Penguin feels particularly special.

And yes, Wyndham also wrote The Day of the Triffids. I read that as a teenager and was utterly terrified. Between mobile carnivorous plants and CND reminding me that nuclear annihilation could occur at any moment, I spent my adolescence fully expecting civilisation to end either in a flash or under aggressive shrubbery.

Frankly, it is remarkable that I am as well adjusted as I am.

Landing now 🧡🐧

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Ivy Exchange, Parnell Street
Dublin
D01P8C2

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Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 6pm
Sunday 12pm - 6pm

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