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The Amusements

The Amusements
  • Author(s): Aingeala Flannery
  • Location(s): County Waterford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the resort town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season, reliving the best days of their childhoods at the seaside amusements. Local teenager Helen Grant is indifferent to the charm of her surroundings;...

The Angel of the Streetlamps

The Angel of the Streetlamps
  • Author(s): Sean Moncrieff
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

  When Manda Ferguson falls out of an apartment window to her death, the story is on all the front pages. But then her death starts to have an effect on the living. Baz: the man accused of killing...

The Angelica Touch

The Angelica Touch
  • Author(s): L J Sedgwick
  • Location(s): County Donegal
  • Genre(s): RomCom, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010

Angelica, 14, has reached three conclusions. Firstly, her mother Molly, who manages a rundown Victorian hotel perched on the wild Drisogue peninsula in Donegal, is desperately lonely. (She’s not.) Secondly, it’s entirely her fault that Molly is still single....

The Art of Falling

The Art of Falling
  • Author(s): Danielle McLaughlin
  • Location(s): County Cork
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nessa McCormack’s marriage is coming back together again after her husband’s affair. She is excited to be in charge of a retrospective art exhibit for one of Ireland’s most beloved and enigmatic artists, the late sculptor Robert Locke. But...

The Beach at Doonshean

The Beach at Doonshean
  • Author(s): Penny Feeny
  • Location(s): County Kerry
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back

In Ireland, the past never dies… Long ago, on a windswept Irish beach, a young father died saving the life of another man’s child. Thirty years later, his widow, Julia, decides to return to this wild corner of Ireland...

The Bee Sting

The Bee Sting
  • Author(s): Paul Murray
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking – a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart… ‘It’s a thing of beauty, a novel that will fill your...

The Belladonna Maze

The Belladonna Maze
  • Author(s): Sinéad Crowley
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Dual Timeline

An old house can hold many secrets. Hollowpark in the west of Ireland certainly does. At the heart of the gardens is an intricate maze, named after a deadly poison, Belladonna. If you know the way through, it’s magical,...

The Blood Miracles

The Blood Miracles
  • Author(s): Lisa McInerney
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Like all twenty-year-olds, Ryan Cusack is trying to get his head around who he is. This is not a good time for his boss to exploit his dual heritage by opening a new black market route from Italy to...

The Book Club Murders

The Book Club Murders
  • Author(s): Alan Gorevan
  • Location(s): Dun Laoghaire
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Izzy O’Brien flees the city centre apartment she shared with her controlling partner, she relocates to the seaside town of Dun Laoghaire, and the house she inherited from her aunt. Isolated and insecure, Izzy is relieved to be...

The Bookshop on the Quay

The Bookshop on the Quay
  • Author(s): Patricia Lynch
  • Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Orphaned Shane Madden comes to Dublin looking for his Uncle Tim, and finds work at The Four Masters Bookshop.

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