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Big Girl, Small Town

Big Girl, Small Town
  • Author(s): Michelle Gallen
  • Location(s): County Tyrone
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Routine makes Majella’s world small but change is about to make it a whole lot bigger. *Stuff Majella knows* -God doesn’t punish men with baldness for wearing ladies’ knickers -Banana-flavoured condoms taste the same as nutrition shakes -Not everyone...

Cal

Cal
  • Author(s): Bernard MacLaverty
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980’s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple: he can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or...

Casual Cruelties

Casual Cruelties
  • Author(s): Alison Irving
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current Day

She wants to escape the prison of her marriage—but after decades of mind games, does she have the strength to break free? Fifty-three, long married, and in the throes of menopause, Laura is dismayed. She’s always tolerated her journalist...

Close to Home

Close to Home
  • Author(s): Michael Magee
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Luminous and devastating, a portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by class, by trauma, and by silence, but also by the courage to love and to survive Sean’s brother Anthony is a hard man. When they were kids their...

Common Decency

Common Decency
  • Author(s): Susannah Dickey
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In an apartment building in Belfast, two women wrestle with the sorrows and spectres of love and loss. Since her mother’s death, Lily has withdrawn from the world, trapped between grief and anger. She has to break out of...

Country

Country
  • Author(s): Michael Hughes
  • Location(s): County Armagh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

That was the start of it. A terrible business altogether. Oh, it was all kept off the news, for the sake of the talks and the ceasefire. But them that were around that part of the country remember every...

Death and Nightingales

Death and Nightingales
  • Author(s): Eugene McCabe
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

It is 1883 and against the fearsome beauty of the Fermanagh landscape, the fate of Beth Winters slowly unfolds. Beth is determined to decide her own destiny yet seems doomed to repeat the tragic mistakes of her family. Through...

Eureka Street

Eureka Street
  • Author(s): Robert McLiam Wilson
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Eureka Street is a story of Belfast in the 1990s, six months before and after another ceasefire. It is the story of Chuckie Lurgan, fat, Protestant and poor, who suddenly becomes wealthy by various legal but immoral means; and...

Green Dawn at St Enda’s

Green Dawn at St Enda’s
  • Author(s): Tracey Iceton
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

When 12 year-old William Devoy s Irish father sends him from New York to a new Dublin boarding school, St Enda s, William imagines having an adventure. It is 1911; the next five years will bring William, and Ireland,...

Harry’s Game

Harry’s Game
  • Author(s): Gerald Seymour
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of national outcry, the authorities must find the hitman. But the trail is long cold, the killer gone to ground in...

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