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The Galway Homicides

The Galway Homicides
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Connemara
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

MURDER AT THE HOLIDAY HOME A local businessman is questioned when a young woman is found dead in his property. His caginess makes him a prime suspect in what turns into a murder inquiry. But with no clear motive...

The Getaway

The Getaway
  • Author(s): Melissa Hill
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Careful what you wish for… Three women routinely take the same coastal train service to the city. All they have in common is that each is desperate for an escape. Newly-wed Dara would give anything to go back in...

The Gin Sisters’ Promise

The Gin Sisters’ Promise
  • Author(s): Faith Hogan
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three estranged sisters. Six months to come back together. When Georgie, Iris and Nola’s mother died and their father disappeared into his grief, the sisters made a pact: they would always be there for one another, no matter what....

The Girl from Kilkenny

The Girl from Kilkenny
  • Author(s): Pete Brassett
  • Location(s): County Kilkenny
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

Detectives in a sleepy Irish town are baffled by a string of murders and a missing girl Who was Nancy McBride and where did she disappear to? The cold-blooded murder of an American tourist in his hotel room has...

The Girl I Used to Know

The Girl I Used to Know
  • Author(s): Faith Hogan
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A beautiful, emotive and spell-binding story of two women who find friendship and second chances when they least expect it. Perfect for the fans of Patricia Scanlan. Amanda King and Tess Cuffe are strangers who share the same Georgian...

The Glorious Heresies

The Glorious Heresies
  • Author(s): Lisa McInerney
  • Location(s): Cork City
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WINNER OF THE BAILEYS’ WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2016 We all do stupid things when we’re kids. Ryan Cusack’s grown up faster than most – being the oldest of six with a...

The Good People

The Good People
  • Author(s): Hannah Kent
  • Location(s): County Kerry
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

County Kerry, Ireland, 1825. Nóra, bereft after the sudden death of her beloved husband, finds herself alone and caring for her young grandson Micheál. Micheál cannot speak and cannot walk and Nóra is desperate to know what is wrong...

The Green Road

The Green Road
  • Author(s): Anne Enright
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A darkly glinting novel set on Ireland’s Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion – a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them.   The...

The Heart’s Invisible Furies

The Heart’s Invisible Furies
  • Author(s): John Boyne
  • Location(s): Ireland, Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s to the present day

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man’s life, beginning and ending in post-war Ireland Cyril Avery is not a real Avery...

The Heirloom

The Heirloom
  • Author(s): Evie Gaughan
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Medieval and Contemporary

In the autumn of 1588, the Spanish Armada set out to invade England, before retreating and losing a large portion of her fleet in violent storms off the west coast of Ireland. Now, Amanda Morrison is haunted by dreams...

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