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Deceive Me in Ireland

Deceive Me in Ireland
  • Author(s): Whitney K-E
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Her cousin had warned her about the Irish charm and Cara had been foolish to ignore her. In Ireland to be Maid of Honour in Kate’s wedding, Cara hasn’t a clue that the handsome Irishman seated next to her...

Distress Signals

Distress Signals
  • Author(s): Catherine Ryan Howard
  • Location(s): County Cork, The Mediterranean
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Did she leave, or was she taken? The day Adam Dunne’s girlfriend, Sarah, fails to return from a Barcelona business trip, his perfect life begins to fall apart. Days later, the arrival of her passport and a note that...

It Happened in Venice

It Happened in Venice
  • Author(s): Molly Hopkins
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Dublin, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

He cheated, but only once! Evie Dexter has promised to forgive and forget her fiancé Rob – and her efforts to absolve his sins are paying off: in the past ten days she’s only called him a two-timing love...

Montpelier Parade

Montpelier Parade
  • Author(s): Karl Geary
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

The house is on Montpelier Parade: just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Working on the garden with his father one Saturday, Sonny is full of curiosity. Then the back door eases open and...

Night Boat to Tangier

Night Boat to Tangier
  • Author(s): Kevin Barry
  • Location(s): Algeciras, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The book moves between fiction Berehaven in Ireland and Algeciras. It’s late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter...

Normal People

Normal People
  • Author(s): Sally Rooney
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in...

Siren

Siren
  • Author(s): Annemarie Neary
  • Location(s): Belfast, County Cork
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s and mid 2000s

A dark and suspenseful psychological thriller about the slippery nature of truth in post-conflict Ireland, and a redemptive story of a woman claiming back her own identity. Róisín Burns has spent the past twenty years becoming someone else; her...

Songs of Love and War

Songs of Love and War
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): County Cork
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1900

West Cork, Ireland, 1900. The year marks the start of a new century, and the birth of three very different women: Kitty Deverill, the flame-haired Anglo-Irish daughter of the castle, Bridie Doyle, the daughter of the Irish cook and...

The Good Mother

The Good Mother
  • Author(s): Sinead Moriarty
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Kate has been through the fire with her three children … Having been left devastated and homeless after her husband’s affair and the break-up of their family, somehow she has pulled through. Though times are still tough, she’s beginning...

The Guest House By The Sea

The Guest House By The Sea
  • Author(s): Faith Hogan
  • Location(s): West Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

People come to the guest house for fresh air and views across the Atlantic. But if they’re lucky, they might just leave with the second chance they didn’t know they needed… Esme has run the guest house for as...

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