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Love and the Goddess

Love and the Goddess
  • Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Coen
  • Location(s): Brazil, Galway, Peru
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When cookery teacher Kate Canavan’s perfect life falls apart she moves to Galway City. Kate’s friend James urges her to love and nurture herself, but mischievous Ella persuades her to dust off her unused dating skills. So Kate explores...

Madam Tulip #1

Madam Tulip #1
  • Author(s): David Ahern
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Paranormal
  • Era(s): Modern

Out-of-work actress Derry O’Donnell is young, talented, a teeny bit psychic … and broke. Spurred on by an ultimatum from her awesomely high-achieving mother, and with a little help from her theatrical friends, Derry embarks on a part-time career...

McCarthy’s Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland

McCarthy’s Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland
  • Author(s): Pete Mccarthy
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): End 1990s

Pete McCarthy’s tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world. Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years...

Meat is Murder

Meat is Murder
  • Author(s): Anne Crosse
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

Body parts, missing persons and hungry workers throw an Irish town into confusion in this darkly comic murder mystery. Tired and hungry, and worried about paying the rent, Zofia, a worker in a recycling plant, cannot believe her luck...

Minor Monuments

Minor Monuments
  • Author(s): Ian Malaney
  • Location(s): County Offaly
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set around a small family farm on the edge of a bog, a few miles from the river Shannon, Minor Monuments is a collection of essays unfolding from the landscape of the Irish midlands. Taking in the physical and...

Morbidly Yours

Morbidly Yours
  • Author(s): Ivy Fairbanks
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He has to marry by his thirty-fifth birthday. She’s sworn off love… Painfully shy Callum Flannelly would rather dive into an open grave than take a stranger to dinner. But he can only inherit the family undertaking business under...

Mouthing

Mouthing
  • Author(s): Orla Mackey
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The bestselling Irish debut novel – a multigenerational portrait of small-town life bursting with caustic wit – for fans of Jon McGregor, Elizabeth Strout and Paul Murray Welcome to Ballyrowan: a village built out of stories. Stories about the...

Murder at the Arts Festival

Murder at the Arts Festival
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

When the annual arts festival in the small west coast town of Clifden is interrupted by the discovery of a man’s body, the organisers fear the whole event will be ruined. Senior Inspector Maureen Lyons heads down from Galway...

Murder at the Arts Festival

Murder at the Arts Festival
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The Galway Homicides Book 14) A grim exhibit at an arts show has Irish detectives running around in circles… When the annual arts festival in the small west coast town of Clifden is interrupted by the discovery of a...

Murder at the Caravan

Murder at the Caravan
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Questions are asked after a man goes missing; the cryptic answer turns out to be murder… When Christine Dalton’s brother doesn’t turn up for a festive dinner, she calls Sergeant Séan Mulholland at the local Garda station in Clifden,...

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