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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...

Knave of Diamonds

Knave of Diamonds
  • Author(s): Laurie R King
  • Location(s): Dublin, England, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes no.19 When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her Uncle Jake, the black sheep of the family. But she hasn’t heard from him in many years, until her ne’er-do-well relative presents himself at...

Land

Land
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Inspired by the mapping of Ireland in the mid nineteenth century, Land, the new novel from the author of Hamnet, is at once intimate and epic: a portrait of a family navigating a legacy of upheaval and loss with...

Land

Land
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long...

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