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What is it you love about your local bookshop? Is it the great advice, the friendly welcome, discovering that ultimate read, or that touch of magic you get from a half hour well-spent in a haven of words?

Westmeath local Mary O’Rourke was named as a winner at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2012 which took place on Thursday November 22.

Well-known Westmeath actress Mary McEvoy has been nominated for an award in the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2011.

Castle Book and Card Centre Ltd in Castlebar is the only store in Mayo to be nominated in the Connacht category of the 2011 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards for Irish Bookshop of the Year. The winning retailer will win a prize fund of €5,000 worth of free electricity. The award is designed to recognise the vital role Irish booksellers play in connecting writers and readers.

If your local bookshop holds a special place in your heart, now is the time to show your appreciation as the search for the Bord Gáis Energy Bookshop of the Year begins. The award aims to recognise those retail stalwarts who connect readers and authors on a daily basis and provide us with endless hours of entertainment.

If your local bookshop holds a special place in your heart, now is the time to show your appreciation as the search for the Bord Gáis Energy Bookshop of the Year begins. The award aims to recognise those retail stalwarts who connect readers and authors on a daily basis and provide us with endless hours of entertainment.

Mayo man Michael Murphy has been shortlisted in the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2010 for his book At Five in the Afternoon.

JOHN BOYNE, the author of the international best-seller The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, will read at the 32nd Clifden Community Arts Festival.