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Blessed Are the Cheesemakers

Blessed Are the Cheesemakers
  • Author(s): Sarah-Kate Lynch
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A delightfully funny novel about the perfect recipe for love – and cheese. Blessed are Corrie and Fee, for theirs is the kingdom of the world’s tastiest farmhouse cheese. Tucked away in a corner of Ireland, the lifelong friends...

Blood and Water

Blood and Water
  • Author(s): Rebecca Murphy
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime, LGBTQIA+, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Susan arrives on Dune Island with a plan, settle her late uncle’s estate, sign the papers, and leave within a week. The inheritance is simple, a weathered cottage, a small distillery, a stubborn dog named Walter.  On paper, nothing she...

Boys Don’t Cry

Boys Don’t Cry
  • Author(s): Fiona Scarlett
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Joe is 17, a gifted artist and a brilliant older brother to 12-year-old Finn. They live with their Ma and Da in a Dublin tower block called Bojaxhiu or ‘the Jax’. It’s not an easy place to be a...

Braywatch

Braywatch
  • Author(s): Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
  • Location(s): Bray
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

For Ross O’Carroll-Kelly – schools rugby hero, celebrated bon vivant and lover of beautiful women – life has suddenly become complicated. His father has been accused of rigging a General Election, his seventy-year-old mother is about to bring six...

Breaking

Breaking
  • Author(s): Amanda Cassidy
  • Location(s): Florida Keys, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a sun-hazed afternoon in the Florida Keys, a child goes missing from the beach. Dr Mirren Fitzpatrick appeals to the world to help find her eight-year-old adopted daughter. The family are on holiday from Ireland, far from home...

Brotherly Love

Brotherly Love
  • Author(s): Lorna Peel
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Ireland, 1835. Faction fighting has left the parish of Doon divided between the followers of the Bradys and the Donnellans. Caitriona Brady is the widow of John, the Brady champion, killed two years ago. Matched with John aged eighteen,...

Can Anybody Help Me?

Can Anybody Help Me?
  • Author(s): Sinéad Crowley
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Chilling thriller for fans of Patricia Gibney and Angela Marsons. Online you never really know who you’re talking to. You can never know their true identity or their intentions. Until it’s too late… Recently moved to Dublin and struggling...

Confessions

Confessions
  • Author(s): Catherine Airey
  • Location(s): Ireland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady’s father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. Her mother died long ago...

Country Girl

Country Girl
  • Author(s): Edna O'Brien
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th century

I thought of life’s many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter … Born in Ireland in 1930 and driven into exile after publication...

Dad’s Red Dress

Dad’s Red Dress
  • Author(s): L J Sedgwick
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 2008

Jessie Keane is 13 and just wants to be normal. Trouble is, her kid sister, Laura (7) thinks she’s been abducted by the Virgin Mary; twice; once on a motorbike, her step-mum, Eva makes erotic feminist installations while Dad...

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