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56 Days

56 Days
  • Author(s): Catherine Ryan Howard
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction

No one even knew they were together. Now one of them is dead. 56 DAYS AGO Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGO...

Acts of Desperation

Acts of Desperation
  • Author(s): Megan Nolan
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010s

‘Such brilliant writing about female desire…honest and visceral’ Marian Keyes She’s twenty-three and in love with love. He’s older, and the most beautiful man she’s ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind...

Beneath an Irish Sky

Beneath an Irish Sky
  • Author(s): Isabella Connor
  • Location(s): Dublin, England, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The past is never over … Jack Stewart thought he’d put the past behind him. On the surface, he has everything – success, money, a big house and he is never short of an attractive woman by his side,...

Call Down the Hawk

Call Down the Hawk
  • Author(s): Maurice G Nicholson
  • Location(s): County Mayo
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s various

It’s April 1995 and, after thirty years of bloody strife, change is in the air on the troubled island of Ireland with the movement for peace beginning to gather pace. Living in the beautiful county of Mayo, Harry Ballantine...

Connemara: Listening to the Wind (1)

Connemara: Listening to the Wind (1)
  • Author(s): Tim Robinson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular region: ill-defined geographically, and yet unmistakably a place apart from the rest of Ireland. Tim Robinson, who established himself as Ireland’s most brilliant living non-fiction writer with the two-volume...

Daughters of Castle Deverill

Daughters of Castle Deverill
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

It is 1925 and the war is long over. But much has been lost and life will never truly be the same again. Castle Deverill, cherished home to the Deverill family in the west of Ireland for hundreds of...

Faithful Place

Faithful Place
  • Author(s): Tana French
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The course of Frank Mackey’s life was set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to...

Ghost Light

Ghost Light
  • Author(s): Joseph O'Connor
  • Location(s): Dublin, Ireland, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Outspoken and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a Catholic girl from the slums of Dublin, dreaming of stardom...

Homecoming

Homecoming
  • Author(s): Cathy Kelly
  • Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Eleanor Levine left Ireland years ago with just a suitcase and her mother’s recipe book. Now, a lifetime later, she returns from New York for Dublin’s beautiful Golden Square full of memories and hard-won wisdom. As she watches life...

Hot Property

Hot Property
  • Author(s): Susanne O'Leary
  • Location(s): County Kerry
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance

When Megan O’Farrell inherits her uncle’s house in a remote part of the windswept Atlantic coast of Ireland, she imagines it will be a romantic hideaway where she can recover from her recent divorce. But the house is a...

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