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The Blood Miracles

The Blood Miracles
  • Author(s): Lisa McInerney
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Like all twenty-year-olds, Ryan Cusack is trying to get his head around who he is. This is not a good time for his boss to exploit his dual heritage by opening a new black market route from Italy to...

The Book Club Murders

The Book Club Murders
  • Author(s): Alan Gorevan
  • Location(s): Dun Laoghaire
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Izzy O’Brien flees the city centre apartment she shared with her controlling partner, she relocates to the seaside town of Dun Laoghaire, and the house she inherited from her aunt. Isolated and insecure, Izzy is relieved to be...

The Bookshop Ladies

The Bookshop Ladies
  • Author(s): Faith Hogan
  • Location(s): West Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bestselling Irish writer, Faith Hogan, has created another gripping saga of friendship, betrayal and secrets in this story of a widow in search of answers to a shocking confession by her dying husband. Joy Blackwood has no idea why...

The Bookshop on the Quay

The Bookshop on the Quay
  • Author(s): Patricia Lynch
  • Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Orphaned Shane Madden comes to Dublin looking for his Uncle Tim, and finds work at The Four Masters Bookshop.

The Boy From The Sea

The Boy From The Sea
  • Author(s): Garrett Carr
  • Location(s): County Donegal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s-1990s

In 1973 on the west coast of Ireland, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Who is he? Where is he from? What changes will he bring? Ambrose, a local fisherman, is far more interested in who he...

The Butcher Boy

The Butcher Boy
  • Author(s): Patrick McCabe
  • Location(s): County Monaghan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A modern classic of Irish fiction, shortlisted for the 1992 Booker prize. When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account...

The Butchers

The Butchers
  • Author(s): Ruth Gilligan
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

A photograph is hung on a gallery wall for the very first time since it was taken two decades before. It shows a slaughter house in rural Ireland, a painting of the Virgin Mary on the wall, a meat...

The Case of the Unsuitable Suitor

The Case of the Unsuitable Suitor
  • Author(s): Cathy Ace
  • Location(s): Ireland, Wales
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Women of the WISE Enquiries Agency are back for a fourth time! When the village’s prodigal son, Huw Hughes, returns and sets his cap at Annie Parker, village publican Tudor begs Annie’s colleagues at the WISE Enquiries Agency...

The Catalpa Tree

The Catalpa Tree
  • Author(s): Denyse Woods
  • Location(s): West Ireland, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Thirty-four-year-old writer, Oliver, becomes the guardian of his best friend’s 15-year-old daughter, Jude, after the friend’s sudden death. In the seven years that follow, Jude struggles with being alone in the world, albeit with a wonderful guardian whom she’s...

The China Chapter

The China Chapter
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

A man is found dead after a house fire. Detective Fiona Moore suspects foul play. It’s not the charred remains of Tony Phelan that really trouble Dublin law enforcement or the traces of accelerant, so much as the bullet...

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