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Happy People Read and Drink Coffee

Happy People Read and Drink Coffee
  • Author(s): Agnes Martin-Lugand
  • Location(s): Paris, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Diane, owner of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee, a cosy coffee shop turned library in Paris, seems to have the perfect life. But when she suddenly loses her husband and daughter in a car accident, her life is...

Haven

Haven
  • Author(s): Emma Donoghue
  • Location(s): County Kerry, Skellig Michael (Great Skellig)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 7th Century

Three men vow to leave the world behind them and start anew . . . In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks –...

Heart and Soul

Heart and Soul
  • Author(s): Maeve Binchy
  • Location(s): Dublin, Poland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters Adi and Linda were no problem during the usually turbulent teens. Now Adi is always fighting for or against something: the environment or the whale or battery farming;...

Heart, Be at Peace

Heart, Be at Peace
  • Author(s): Donal Ryan
  • Location(s): Nenagh
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two. In a small town in rural Ireland, the local...

Heartstones

Heartstones
  • Author(s): Kate Glanville
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Kate Glanville’s debut novel Heartstones explores love, loss and secrets in the rural coastal setting of Ireland. Heartstones is a novel about secrets. Set in contemporary Ireland the story is intertwined with one set in 1940’s. In both past...

Her Heart for a Compass

Her Heart for a Compass
  • Author(s): Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York
  • Location(s): Ireland, London, New York City (NYC), Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s/70s

London 1865 In an attempt to rebel against a society where women are expected to conform, free-spirited Lady Margaret Montagu Scott flees her confines and an arranged marriage. But Lady Margaret’s parents, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, as...

Her Kind

Her Kind
  • Author(s): Niamh Boyce
  • Location(s): County Kilkenny
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 14th Century

‘Gripping … a story of loss, ambition, misogyny, family love and what it means to belong … evocative and atmospheric’ Irish Times 1324, Kilkennie: A time of suspicion and conspiracy. A place where zealous men rage against each other...

Herself Alone in Orange Rain

Herself Alone in Orange Rain
  • Author(s): Tracey Iceton
  • Location(s): Ireland, Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Kaylynne Ryan is a promising art student, used to fighting for her place in a world of men, but when a forgotten friend turns up she realises there is more than her own freedom at stake. Learning the truth...

Himself

Himself
  • Author(s): Jess Kidd
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950 and 1976

1950. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in a forest. But, somehow, her baby survives. 1976. A mysterious and charming young man returns to the remote coastal village of Mulderrig, seeking answers about the mother who, it was said,...

Holding

Holding
  • Author(s): Graham Norton
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama; and yet its inhabitants are troubled. Sergeant PJ Collins hasn’t always been this overweight; mother of two Brid Riordan hasn’t always been an alcoholic; and elegant Evelyn Ross hasn’t...

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