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The Library at the Edge of the World

The Library at the Edge of the World
  • Author(s): Felicity Hayes-McCoy
  • Location(s): West Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After divorcing her cheating husband, 51-year-old Hanna Casey finds herself living back home in the Irish countryside with her overbearing mother. Having Hanna lived a sophisticated life in London while she was married, she has to reaccustom herself to...

The Life You Left

The Life You Left
  • Author(s): Carmel Harrington
  • Location(s): County Wexford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2014

The life you lived. The life you loved. The life you left… For fans of Jojo Moyes and Cecelia Ahern. It started out like any other day for Sarah Lawler; getting the kids ready for school, making the pack...

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife
  • Author(s): June O'Sullivan
  • Location(s): Skellig Michael (Great Skellig)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1860s

Life is hard in Ireland in 1867. Eliza Carthy moves with her lighthouse-keeper husband James and sons Peter and Joseph to the remote island of Skellig Michael. Eliza is proud of her husband and his promotion to Principal Keeper...

The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street

The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street
  • Author(s): Sarah Webb, Rachel Corcoran (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1911

Dublin, 1911 When Eliza Kane and her brother Jonty move from the leafy suburbs of Rathmines to a tenement flat on Henrietta Street they are in for a shock. Pigs and ponies in the yard, rats in the hallways...

The Lock-Up

The Lock-Up
  • Author(s): John Banville
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

1950s Dublin. in a lock-up garage in the city, the body of a young woman is discovered – an apparent suicide. But pathologist Dr Quirke and Detective Inspector Strafford soon suspect foul play. The victim’s sister, a newspaper reporter...

The Loneliest Boy in the World

The Loneliest Boy in the World
  • Author(s): Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain
  • Location(s): Great Blasket Island
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

‘The Loneliest Boy in the World he has only seagulls as playmates.’ 1949 newspaper article. Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin had a unique childhood he was the last child brought up on the Blasket Islands off Ireland’s southwest coast. The...

The Lost Bookshop

The Lost Bookshop
  • Author(s): Evie Woods
  • Location(s): Dublin, Lancashire, Paris, West Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found… For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these...

The Lost Soldier’s Song

The Lost Soldier’s Song
  • Author(s): Patrick McGinley
  • Location(s): County Donegal
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919-21

McGinley foregoes his usual murder mystery genre; instead, he presents an historical novel set during the Anglo-Irish War of 1919 to 1921. The story opens and closes with Declan Osborne in jail, being interrogated by British officers. In between,...

The Lost Tide Warriors

The Lost Tide Warriors
  • Author(s): Catherine Doyle
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

Fionn Boyle has been Storm Keeper of Arranmore for less than six months when thousands of terrifying Soulstalkers arrive on the island. The empty-eyed followers of the dreaded sorceress Morrigan have come to raise their leader and Fionn is...

The Moon Over Kilmore Quay

The Moon Over Kilmore Quay
  • Author(s): Carmel Harrington
  • Location(s): County Wexford, Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990's to 2020

It’s time to curl up with Carmel… When your heart belongs in two places, can you ever truly find home? Brooklyn, New York, Bea has grown up in the heart of the Irish community, always hearing stories of home....

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