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  • Author(s): Cailean Steed
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Someone has broken into Zoe’s flat. A man she thought she’d never have to see again. They call him the Hand of God. He knows about her job in the cafe, her life in Dublin, her ex-girlfriend, even the...

Home Stretch

Home Stretch
  • Author(s): Graham Norton
  • Location(s): Ireland, Liverpool, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1987 onwards

Shame and longing can flow through generations, but the secrets of the heart will not be buried for ever. It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for a wedding. The day before the ceremony a group...

Homesickness

Homesickness
  • Author(s): Colin Barrett
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘A mesmerisingly powerful book, full of the strangeness and beauty of life’ Sally Rooney ‘Addictive, stylish and violently funny… An outstanding collection’ Kevin Barry From the prize-winning author of YOUNG SKINS, comes HOMESICKNESS – a quietly caustic, startlingly beautiful...

I Couldn’t Love You More

I Couldn’t Love You More
  • Author(s): Esther Freud
  • Location(s): London, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past It’s London, 1960, and Aoife Kelly–once the sparkling object of young men’s...

If Not Now

If Not Now
  • Author(s): Denyse Devlin
  • Location(s): Cork City
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Just when she has resigned herself to being alone long-term, Marina Ffench, a widow in her forties, meets a man and falls in love all over again. A mid-life relationship, she thinks, will be straightforward – kids reared, careers...

If Only She Knew

If Only She Knew
  • Author(s): Derville Murphy
  • Location(s): Manchester, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Victorian

Described as ‘Peaky Blinders’ meets ‘Pride and Prejudice’. Headstrong Julia Benson, successful Dublin artist, was disinherited by her Unionist father’s will, leaving her beholden on her devious brother-in-law. When her Fenian lover Donal O’Keefe goes missing, Julia travels to...

In the Forest

In the Forest
  • Author(s): Edna O'Brien
  • Location(s): County Clare
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1994

This book tells the dark story of a beautiful young woman and her little son who live in a cottage on the edge of a forest in rural Ireland and are murdered by a deranged killer who has become...

Intermezzo

Intermezzo
  • Author(s): Sally Rooney
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a...

Islands of Mercy

Islands of Mercy
  • Author(s): Rose Tremain
  • Location(s): Borneo, Bath, Dublin, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1865 onwards

She was ‘The Angel of the Baths’, the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned...

It’s Who We Are

It’s Who We Are
  • Author(s): Christine Webber
  • Location(s): East Anglia, Ireland, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): October 2016 - June 2017

Five friends in their fifties find themselves dealing with unforeseen upheaval as they uncover long-hidden and devastating family secrets. Meanwhile, the world around them seems to be spinning out of control. This is a novel about friendship, kindness and...

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