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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...

Beyond Grace’s Rainbow

Beyond Grace’s Rainbow
  • Author(s): Carmel Harrington
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2012

‘A bittersweet, quietly brilliant novel that will make you cry, laugh and cry all over again.’ – Female First Perfect for fans of Kelly Rimmer and Jojo Moyes. *Book of the Year in the 2013 Kindle Book Awards* *Winner...

Black Water

Black Water
  • Author(s): Cormac O'Keeffe
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

I killed the boy . . . Jig loves football and his dog, hates school, misses his dead granda and knows to lie low when his ma’s blitzed on the vodka. He’s just an ordinary boy on the brutal...

Blazing a Trail: Irish Women Who Changed the World

Blazing a Trail: Irish Women Who Changed the World
  • Author(s): Sarah Webb, Lauren O'Neill (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A book for everyone who dreams of changing the world. From fearless aviator, Lady Mary Heath, the first woman in the world to parachute from an aeroplane, to Margaret Bulkley, the 18th-century surgeon who lived as a man, meet...

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