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That Summer at the Seahorse Hotel

That Summer at the Seahorse Hotel
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mia Flanagan has never been told who her father is and aged ten, stopped asking. Haunted by this, she remains a dutiful daughter who would never do anything to bring scandal or shame on her beautiful and famously single...

The Ballad of Mary Kearney

The  Ballad of Mary Kearney
  • Author(s): Katherine Mezzacappa
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Eighteenth century

In County Down, Ireland, in 1767, a nobleman secretly marries his servant, in defiance of law, class, and religion. Can their love survive tumultuous times?An impoverished tenant farmer sends his seventeen-year-old daughter Mary into service at the home of...

The Accidental Life Of Greg Millar

The Accidental Life Of Greg Millar
  • Author(s): Aimee Alexander
  • Location(s): Ireland, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lucy Arigho’s first encounter with Greg Millar is far from promising, but she soon realises he possesses a charm that is impossible to resist. Just eight whirlwind weeks after their first meeting, level-headed career girl Lucy is seriously considering...

The American Girl

The American Girl
  • Author(s): Rachael English
  • Location(s): Dublin, Boston, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s nd 2013

From a storyteller who combines the warmth of Maeve Binchy with the elegance of Maggie O’Farrell comes an unforgettable new novel . . . Boston 1968. Rose Moroney is seventeen, smart, spirited – and pregnant. She wants to marry...

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 Barracks

The Barracks
  • Author(s): John McGahern
  • Location(s): County Cavan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The iconic debut novel by ‘one of the greatest writers of our era’ (Hilary Mantel) and ‘the Irish novelist everyone should read’ (Colm Tóibín). Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom – and loneliness – marries into the enclosed Irish...

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...

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