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Secrets Between Friends

Secrets Between Friends
  • Author(s): Sheila O'Flanagan
  • Location(s): France, Ireland, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ailie, Sybil and Rua can take care of themselves. But when they form an unexpected friendship, they discover new perspectives on old problems. Ailie is recently widowed, and struggling. At least she can cut ties with her toxic Italian...

Secrets We Keep

Secrets We Keep
  • Author(s): Faith Hogan
  • Location(s): West Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The beautiful old Bath House in Ballytokeep has lain empty and abandoned for decades. For devoted pensioners Archie and Iris, it holds too many conflicting memories – sometimes it’s better to leave the past where it belongs. For highflying,...

Service

Service
  • Author(s): Sarah Gilmartin
  • Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘A hugely gripping literary page-turner. Sharp, visceral and shocking’ Claire Powell When Hannah learns that star chef Daniel Costello is facing accusations of sexual assault, she’s thrown back to her summer waitressing at his high-end Dublin restaurant. A glamorous...

seven steeples

seven steeples
  • Author(s): Sara Baume
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The mountain remained, unclimbed, for the first year that they lived there. Bell and Sigh, a couple in the infancy of their relationship, cut themselves off from friends and family. They turn their backs on a city divided by...

She’s Missing

She’s Missing
  • Author(s): K E Heaton
  • Location(s): Ireland, North-West England
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Simmering hostilities can be found in any family unit and as everyone knows are particularly evident between siblings of the same gender and similar age. In Susie and Sally’s experience their profound animosity towards each other began in early...

Shock Therapy

Shock Therapy
  • Author(s): Angus Blair
  • Location(s): London, Cornwall, Ireland, Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Henry Bradbury’s life is in free fall. His marriage has failed, he’s about to lose his City job, and he now finds himself dangerously out of his depth as an unlikely agent of the British secret intelligence services. His...

Sing, Wild Bird, Sing

Sing, Wild Bird, Sing
  • Author(s): Jacqueline O’Mahony
  • Location(s): West Ireland, New York City (NYC), The American West
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

A courageous woman journeys from nineteenth-century Ireland to the American West in a powerful novel about the indomitable will to survive—and to flourish—against nearly impossible odds. It’s 1849 on the west coast of Ireland. Resilient Honora O’Donoghue is accustomed...

Six Wicked Reasons

Six Wicked Reasons
  • Author(s): Jo Spain
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2008

It’s June 2008 and twenty-one-year-old Adam Lattimer vanishes, presumed dead. The strain of his disappearance breaks his already fragile family. Ten years later, with his mother deceased and siblings scattered across the globe, Adam turns up unannounced at the...

Skin Deep

Skin Deep
  • Author(s): Liz Nugent
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), Ireland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

From the No 1 bestselling author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick, Lying in Wait ‘I could probably have been an actress. It is not difficult to pretend to be somebody else. Isn’t that what I’ve been doing...

Skin, Paper, Stone

Skin, Paper, Stone
  • Author(s): Máire T Robinson
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern-day

People think that if they go far away they’ll leave the parts of themselves behind. But it doesn’t work like that. Stevie moves to Galway to pursue her PhD and takes refuge in the city, and in her relationship...

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