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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...

Snow

Snow
  • Author(s): John Banville
  • Location(s): County Wexford, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 20th century

Following the discovery of the corpse of a highly respected parish priest at Ballyglass House – the Co. Wexford family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family – Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to...

Snowed in For Christmas

Snowed in For Christmas
  • Author(s): Claire Sandy
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Asta’s plane touches down in Ireland as the first flakes of snow begin to settle. As the weather worsens, it turns what should be a flying visit into a snowed-in Yuletide with her chaotic family. Asta fled her childhood...

Snowflake

Snowflake
  • Author(s): Louise Nealon
  • Location(s): County Kildare
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Eighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. Maeve spends her...

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