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The Murder Box

The Murder Box
  • Author(s): Olivia Kiernan
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

At first, Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan believes the murder mystery game sent to her office is a birthday gift from one of her colleagues. But when Frankie studies the game’s contents, she notices a striking resemblance between the...

The Pull of the Stars

The Pull of the Stars
  • Author(s): Emma Donoghue
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1918

In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia’s regimented world...

The Steam Catcher

The Steam Catcher
  • Author(s): Jim O'Sullivan
  • Location(s): Europe, Gloucestershire, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): early twentieth century

GLOUCESTER, 1915. Haunted by his father’s madness, Tom Casey flees home after being falsely accused of murder. He survives the First World War and the Irish War for Independence. But survival demands a heavy price: the loss of his...

The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually

The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually
  • Author(s): Helen Cullen
  • Location(s): Galway, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1970s - 2015

On an island off the west coast of Ireland, the Moone family gathers. Maeve is an actor, struggling with her most challenging role yet – as a mother to four children. Murtagh, her devoted husband, is a potter whose...

The Women at Ocean’s End

The Women at Ocean’s End
  • Author(s): Faith Hogan
  • Location(s): West Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of the ebook bestseller, The Bookshop Ladies, comes a brand new novel guaranteed to pull at your heartstrings as three women, all with secrets waiting to be uncovered, meet on a beautiful island off the Irish...

Time of the Child

Time of the Child
  • Author(s): Niall Williams
  • Location(s): County Clare
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in the little town of Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from his community. A visit from the...

Two Weeks in Toronto

Two Weeks in Toronto
  • Author(s): Amelia Doyle
  • Location(s): Toronto, Dublin
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ciara Walsh is dreading the thought of boarding the plane from Dublin to Toronto alone to attend her sister Gabriella’s wedding. Also, successful dentist Ethan O’Leary could imagine better things to do than driving to Galway to celebrate both...

Wild Houses

Wild Houses
  • Author(s): Colin Barrett
  • Location(s): Ballina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time dealer, Cillian English, and County Mayo’s fraternal enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum. When the reclusive Dev...

Connemara: a Little Gaelic Kingdom

Connemara: a Little Gaelic Kingdom
  • Author(s): Tim Robinson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the final work in Tim Robinson’s Connemara trilogy, and completes his breathtakingly intricate journey through the Irish peninsula (the first two are: Listening to the Wind and The Last Pool of Darkness). Connemara is not just a...

Conversations with Friends

Conversations with Friends
  • Author(s): Sally Rooney
  • Location(s): Provence, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then...

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