Dublin: One City, One Book

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This valuable donation of books by and about Bram Stoker, gathered over a lifetime of interest by the late Leslie Shepard, is a treasure-trove for researchers and enthusiasts. The collection, generously donated by his daughter, Jill Shepard Glenstrup, includes books and tracts relating to the life, career and associations of Bram Stoker. Its various volumes will appeal as much to the person with general interest in the life of Stoker as to those with a more intensive enthusiasm for the background - literary, historical, geographical, and cultural - to Dracula.

The Dublin: One City One Book choice for 2009 is the iconic Dracula by Dubliner Bram Stoker, and a programme of events showcasing Dublin’s connection with the gothic genre will take place throughout April.
 
To celebrate the month-long initiative, The Sunday Tribune – in association with Dublin City Council – is running a short story competition. Entrants are invited to submit a story incorporating the following line from the book, Dracula…”His eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat.”
 
Entries of no more than 800 words in length should be emailed to dracula@tribune.ie by Friday 27 March. The winning entry will be published in the Sunday Tribune during April and its writer will win €100 book token
 
** The editor’s decision is final.

 Special offers in two leading Dublin hotels are available for the month of April in association with Dublin: One City One Book. 
 
The Gresham Hotel
See www.gresham-hotels.com/ or telephone +353-1-874 6881  email reservations@thegresham.com 
 
The Westbury Hotel
see   www.doylecollection.com/locations/dublin_hotels/the_westbury_hotel.aspx    telephone  +353-1-6791122  email  westbury_reservations@doylecollection.com 
 
Please mention Dublin: One City One Book when booking with either hotel.

Dracula by Bram Stoker 

The chosen book for the 2009 Dublin: One City, One Book is Dracula by Dublin author Bram Stoker. 

Count Dracula’s castle is a hellish world where night is day, pleasure is pain and the blood of the innocent prized above all. Young Jonathan Harker approaches the gloomy gates with no idea what he is about to face. And back in England eerie incidents are unfolding as strange puncture marks appear on a young woman’s neck. But can Harker’s fiancee be saved? And where is the evil Dracula? 
(From cover of Penguin Classics Edition)

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