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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...

Last Ones Left Alive

Last Ones Left Alive
  • Author(s): Sarah Davis-Goff
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Raised by her mother and Maeve on Slanbeg, an island off the west coast of Ireland, Orpen has a childhood of love and stories by the fireside. But the stories grow darker, and the training begins. Ireland has been...

Lethal in Small Doses

Lethal in Small Doses
  • Author(s): David A Pearson
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

DUBLIN DETECTIVES RACE TO TRACK A SERIAL KILLER TARGETTING CARE HOMES When an elderly resident of a care home passes away during the night, little is thought of it. But when a routine investigation turns up an anomaly, suspicions...

LIVES APART

LIVES APART
  • Author(s): Anne M McLoughlin
  • Location(s): County Clare, Boston, Martha's Vineyard, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1800s to 1926

LIVES APART tells the story of young Johanna McNamara, who, in 1877 leaves her quiet life on the family farm in County Clare and emigrates to America to join her successful businessman brother Hugh. Full of hope, she is...

LIVES WITHOUT END

LIVES WITHOUT END
  • Author(s): Anne M McLoughlin
  • Location(s): Boston, County Clare, County Wexford
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1838 to 1978

LIVES WITHOUT END An emotional tale of family secrets spanning three generations. Mary Ann survives the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s and lives on to become matriarch of the McNamara family. This solid rock of a woman is...

London, Can You Wait?

London, Can You Wait?
  • Author(s): Jacquelyn Middleton
  • Location(s): London, Dublin, Manchester, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Present Day

Alex loves Mark. Mark loves Alex. But is love enough? Since moving to London from the US, twenty-four-year-old Alex Sinclair seems to have it all: a coveted job writing for the theatre, supportive friends, and the man of her...

Long Island

Long Island
  • Author(s): Colm Tóibín
  • Location(s): Enniscorthy, Long Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

The sequel to Brooklyn. A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn – perhaps...

Look into the Eye

Look into the Eye
  • Author(s): Jennifer Barrett
  • Location(s): Norway, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2012

Melanie McQuaid has a five-year plan. And it doesn’t include love or fun. Richard Blake seems set on self- destruction. There’s a spark between them, though they have nothing in common. Then their lives are transformed. Disillusioned from a...

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