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Forget Me Not

Forget Me Not
  • Author(s): Carol McKee Jones
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 21st century

Joint winner of the Rethink Press New Novels award 2014, this is a prize-winning story of forgetting, remembering and identity. Forget-me-not is an atmospheric mystery with a romantic edge set mainly In Southern Ireland. Ruth awakens after an accident...

From A Low And Quiet Sea

From A Low And Quiet Sea
  • Author(s): Donal Ryan
  • Location(s): Syria, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 For Farouk, family is all. He has protected his wife and daughter as best he can from the war and hatred that has torn Syria apart. If they stay, they will lose...

Galway Confidential

Galway Confidential
  • Author(s): Ken Bruen
  • Location(s): Galway City, Galway
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the private-detective business, you get on the wrong side of some dangerous people. For Galway investigator Jack Taylor, that meant a violent assault that left him comatose. Waking up during the Covid pandemic, Jack struggles to cope with...

Go Seek

Go Seek
  • Author(s): Michelle Teahan
  • Location(s): Cork City, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

YOU LOOKED AWAY FOR JUST A MINUTE. Your daughter is gone, and only you can find her. Because you know exactly who took her. And they’re making her pay for your past. To save one child, you must leave...

Going Back

Going Back
  • Author(s): Rachael English
  • Location(s): Dublin, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

How do you know where you belong? In June 1988, Elizabeth Kelly’s parents think she belongs at home in Ireland. Her boyfriend is certain of it. Unwilling to settle down just yet, she decides to spend the summer in...

Green Dawn at St Enda’s

Green Dawn at St Enda’s
  • Author(s): Tracey Iceton
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

When 12 year-old William Devoy s Irish father sends him from New York to a new Dublin boarding school, St Enda s, William imagines having an adventure. It is 1911; the next five years will bring William, and Ireland,...

Grown Ups

Grown Ups
  • Author(s): Marian Keyes
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They’re a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together – birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weekends away. And they’re a happy...

Hagstone

Hagstone
  • Author(s): Sinéad Gleeson
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? On a wild and rugged island cut off and isolated to some, artist Nell feels the island is her...

Hammer To Fall

Hammer To Fall
  • Author(s): John Lawton
  • Location(s): Prague, Berlin, Dublin, Finland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1966-68

It’s London, the swinging sixties, and by rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. But alas, in the wake of an embarrassing disaster for MI6, Wilderness has been posted to remote...

Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating

Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating
  • Author(s): Adiba Jaigirdar
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hani and Ishu couldn’t be less alike – and they definitely don’t like each other. But when fates collide and they pretend to date each other, things start to get messy… A heart-warming queer YA love story for fans...

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