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Antarctica

Antarctica
  • Author(s): Claire Keegan
  • Location(s): England, Ireland, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the opening story about a married woman who takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mind – to sleep with another man – Antarctica draws you into a world of obsession, betrayal and fragile...

Anywhere but Here

Anywhere but Here
  • Author(s): Vicki Notaro
  • Location(s): County Donegal
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three friends at life-changing crossroads . . . Matilda: Living the dream: presenting breakfast TV in Dublin and married to a man with a mega media career in the UK. But when she turns up in their London flat...

April in Galway

April in Galway
  • Author(s): Martha Reynolds
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Bill Flanagan’s no stranger to regrets, so when he stumbles upon the chance to erase one from his long record, he jumps at it. April Tweed’s reinvigorated acting career may suggest she’s left her past behind, but some memories...

Are You Watching Me?

Are You Watching Me?
  • Author(s): Sinéad Crowley
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Dear Elizabeth, I’ve been watching you. I hope to see you . . . Soon. Liz Cafferky is on the up. Rescued from her dark past by the owner of a drop-in centre for older men, Liz soon finds...

Art Collector’s Daughter

Art Collector’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Derville Murphy
  • Location(s): Paris, Dublin, Wexford
  • Genre(s): Historical, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): World War II and the present day

A gripping psychological thriller set between Paris and Wexford, Ireland during World war II and the present day. As the German’s march on Paris, a French art collector sends his daughter Sylvie, and his valuable collection to rural Ireland...

As You Were

As You Were
  • Author(s): Elaine Feeney
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sinéad Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. No-one knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny...

At Swim, Two Boys

At Swim, Two Boys
  • Author(s): Jamie O'Neill
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1916

Out at the Forty Foot, that great jut of Dublin rock where gentlemen bathe in the scandalous nude, two boys meet day after day. There they make a pact: that Doyler will teach Jim to swim, and in a...

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Beautiful World, Where Are You
  • Author(s): Sally Rooney
  • Location(s): Dublin, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting...

Beneath an Irish Sky

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

Following a tragedy, two very different worlds collide when an English millionaire discovers he has a son who was raised as an Irish Traveller. An angry young man is determined to learn the truth about why his father abandoned...

Between Worlds: Folktales of Britain & Ireland

Between Worlds: Folktales of Britain & Ireland
  • Author(s): Kevin Crossley-Holland, Frances Castle (illustrator)
  • Location(s): United Kingdom, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The definitive collection of British and Irish folktales from master storyteller and poet Kevin Crossley-Holland. Rich and strange, these eerie and magical folktales from across Britain and Ireland have been passed down from generation to generation, and are gathered...

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