12 bookshops across the country have been longlisted for the ‘An Post Bookshop of the Year’ category at this year’s An Post Irish Book Awards, the annual literary event that celebrates and promotes Irish writing and authors to the widest range of readers possible.

The list is as follows:

· Kerr’s Bookshop, Clonakilty, Cork

· Philip’s Bookshop, Mallow, Cork

· Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, Galway

· Waterstones, Drogheda, Louth

· Tertulia, Westport, Mayo

· Liber, Sligo

· Bridge Street Books, Wicklow

· Chapters Bookstore, Parnell Street, Dublin

· Books at One LetterFrack, Letterfrack, Connemara, Galway

· Bridge Books, Dromore, County Down

· Books on the Green, Sandymount, Dublin

· Genius Juniors, Online Bookshop

What is the next step toward deciding Ireland's bookshop of the year?

Aoife Roantree, Sinead Moriarty and Tomas Kenny joined the Last Word to discuss.