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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...

The Christmas Party

The Christmas Party
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Declan Lorne, the last remaining knight in Ireland, dies suddenly, an ancient title passes with him. But his estate on Ireland’s rugged south-west coast is left to his three daughters. The two eldest, Ottie and Pip, inherit in...

The City in Darkness

The City in Darkness
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Spain, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Christmas 1939. In Europe the Phoney War hides carnage to come. In Ireland Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie keeps tabs on Irishmen joining the British Forces. It’s unpleasant work, but when an IRA raid on a military arsenal sends Garda...

The City of Lies

The City of Lies
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Berlin, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

An IRA attack leaves two guards dead on the streets of Dublin. Two days later, a battle between warring gangs erupts at a race meeting, and on Ireland’s east coast the cremated bodies of a wealthy family of five...

The City of Shadows

The City of Shadows
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Dublin, Gdansk
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1934

Longlisted for the CWA John Creasy New Blood Dagger Award 2013 and shortlisted for CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger Award 2014 ‘She looked up at the terraced house, with the closed shutters and the big room at the end of...

The City Under Siege

The City Under Siege
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Ireland, England, Malta
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

1941, and Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is ferrying documents between Dublin and war-torn London. When Ireland’s greatest actor is arrested in Soho, after the brutal murder of a gay man, Stefan extricates him from an embarrassing situation. But suddenly...

The Colony

The Colony
  • Author(s): Audrey Magee
  • Location(s): County Kerry
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine – the authentic experience. Unbeknownst to him, Mr Masson will also soon be arriving for the summer. Both will strive to encapsulate the truth of this...

The Commitments

The Commitments
  • Author(s): Roddy Doyle
  • Location(s): The Northside
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabbitte, brilliantly coached by Joey ‘The Lips’ Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps...

The Country Girls Trilogy

The Country Girls Trilogy
  • Author(s): Edna O'Brien
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Edna O’Brien’s first novel The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s. The characters of Kate Brady and her friend Baba Brennan have...

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