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29/12/2025

Let’s have a ‘bit of a 2025 wrap’ as we tear through the twelve months gone by. If you see yourself here, drop a note below. We’re delighted you joined us…🎄❤️🎈We’ll have another couple of posts over coming days. Stay safe…

29/12/2025

"Her grandmother had said: 'If your need is great, open the matryoshka and help will come ... " She opened the doll, and instantly a beautiful grey wolf knelt before her. 'Climb upon my back,' he said, 'and I will take you to the frozen kingdom where the Prince lies captive...'"

From "The Magic Nesting Doll," by Jacqueline Ogburn. Illustration by Laurel Long, 2000.

29/12/2025

Eric McNamara's book series with us is conceived as a "journey through the seasons," a planned four-volume tetralogy that mirrors the cyclical wisdom of the natural world. Each book is set in a different season, creating a rich thematic and atmospheric backdrop for the narrative's progression. The first book, 'A Journey of Kindness', is set in Autumn, while the current manuscript, 'The Ancient Scroll Awaits', takes place in the quiet, reflective magic of Winter.

The saga follows the protagonist, Erica, a young girl whose deep connection to her late grandmother opens a door to a magical world of fairies, gentle giants, and ancient wisdom. Guided by the beauty of nature and the steady influence of her ancestors, Erica navigates not only the external quests of a fantasy realm but also the inner world of her own emotions.

The series is a masterful exploration of how courage, belief, and kindness can illuminate the path through both magical forests and personal grief.
-Susan McKenna, Director, Book Hub Publishing

28/12/2025

"The meeting on the Turret Stairs"
By county Wicklow born artist Frederic William Burton(1816-1900) and is one of Ireland's favourite paintings, inspired by a medieval danish ballad.

They stood at the door with spear and shield:
‘Up Lord Hildebrand! out and yield!’
He kissed me then mine eyes above:-
‘Say never my name, thou darling love’
Out of the door Lord Hildebrand sprang;
Around his head the sword he swang.


Part of the collections of the National Gallery of Ireland

28/12/2025

Some stories don’t arrive neatly packaged. They arrive undelivered and still need to be heard.

'Undelivered: Fertility, Miscarriage and My Journey to Self-Compassion' by Laura Doyle is a bold, unflinching memoir that speaks into the silence around infertility and pregnancy loss in Ireland, and the “good-enough support” that too often isn’t there when people are falling apart. It’s honest, tender, and refuses to let grief be a footnote.

If you’ve ever felt like you had to “get on with it” while your world cracked in half, this book is a hand on your shoulder saying: 'you’re not imagining it, and you’re not alone.'

Read if you want:

* a real, raw account of TTC, loss, and the emotional aftermath.
* a memoir grounded in self-compassion (without the fluff).
* a clear-eyed look at the gaps in care and culture around miscarriage.

Available now from www.lauradoyleauthor.com and www.bookhubpublishing.com

If this topic touches your life, what’s one thing you wish someone had said to you sooner?

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25/12/2025

Noel
by J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

Grim was the world and grey last night:
The moon and stars were fled,
The hall was dark without song or light,
The fires were fallen dead.
The wind in the trees was like to the sea,
And over the mountains’ teeth
It whistled bitter-cold and free,
As a sword leapt from its sheath.
The lord of snows upreared his head;
His mantle long and pale
Upon the bitter blast was spread
And hung o’er hill and dale.
The world was blind,
the boughs were bent,
All ways and paths were wild:
Then the veil of cloud apart was rent,
And here was born a Child.
The ancient dome of heaven sheer
Was pricked with distant light;
A star came shining white and clear
Alone above the night.
In the dale of dark in that hour of birth
One voice on a sudden sang:
Then all the bells in Heaven and Earth
Together at midnight rang.
Mary sang in this world below:
They heard her song arise
O’er mist and over mountain snow
To the walls of Paradise,
And the tongue of many bells was stirred
in Heaven’s towers to ring
When the voice of mortal maid was heard,
That was mother of Heaven’s King.
Glad is the world and fair this night
With stars about its head,
And the hall is filled with laughter and light,
And fires are burning red.
The bells of Paradise now ring
With bells of Christendom,
And Gloria, Gloria we will sing
That God on earth is come.

[Image: The Kitchen of the Angels (1893) illustration in the Art Nouveau style by Swiss artist Eugène Samuel Grasset (1845–1917) for a cover of L'Illustration, a major French weekly.]

Poetry, Tea and Me

24/12/2025

Beware the Yule Cat! In Icelandic folklore, Jólakötturinn, is a giant cat who prowls the longest winter nights, hunting those who didn’t receive new clothes before Christmas. So… here’s hoping socks are under the tree. 🧦🐈‍⬛ Merry Christmas Eve, everyone!

24/12/2025

24/12/2025

To every author who published with Book Hub Publishing in 2025, this one’s for you. You wrote the book. You stayed the course. You showed up when quitting felt easier.

We’re endlessly proud of you and grateful to have walked this year with you.

Wishing you a peaceful Christmas, a well-earned rest, and a New Year full of brave ideas and fresh pages.

22/12/2025

Let’s get this movement going in Ireland!

In a city in France, bus stops no longer display ads — instead, they showcase shelves filled with free books. Commuters arrive early just to browse, trade, or read quietly while waiting.

The idea began as a trial in a few neighborhoods, replacing commercial posters with open-access mini libraries. Soon, benches were redesigned with side compartments for novels and poetry, donated by locals or rotated by libraries weekly.

Passengers say it changed the rhythm of their day — phones down, minds calmer. Some even coordinate book drops like secret handoffs. Kids get picture books, and seniors leave handwritten notes in the margins.

Morning waits are no longer idle — they’re chapters long.

22/12/2025

Menopause isn’t a disappearance. It’s a chapter change and a powerful one.

In some cultures, this season of life is framed as renewal, wisdom, and recalibration. Not something to be “fixed”, hidden, or endured quietly. A transition into clarity. Into truth. Into self.

At Book Hub Publishing we believe stories like these deserve the page, the spotlight, and the respect they’ve long been denied. We publish books that challenge tired narratives and reclaim midlife as a time of strength, purpose, and unapologetic becoming.

Because reinvention isn’t a crisis.
It’s called growth. And it makes for damn good books. Pick up a copy of Michael Meyer Author debut book ‘Where’s Mum? Stories Of Love, Loss And Menopause’ on our website. 📚✨

22/12/2025

'Erica's Light. The Ancient Scroll Awaits' by Eric McNamara is currently on the printing press with Joanna and will be published for our readers in early January 2026 with a launch event end of January. Exciting times ahead as Eric has confirmed a date of 24th and time of 11.00am. The gorgeous venue is Scariff Library. Here’s a reel curated by our Anne to celebrate the occasion.