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The Restaurant

The Restaurant
  • Author(s): Roisin Meaney
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Emily’s heart is broken by the love of her life, she never imagined that she would find herself running a small restaurant in the converted hat shop her grandmother left to her. The Food of Love offers diners...

The Rules of Revelation

The Rules of Revelation
  • Author(s): Lisa McInerney
  • Location(s): County Cork
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘THE RULES OF REVELATION is not only a glorious, bold, funny state-of-the-nation novel, but a beautiful and painful love story too’ SALLY ROONEY REUNIONS. RECRIMINATIONS. RECKONINGS. Ireland. Great nationalists, bad mothers and a whole lot of secrets. Ryan Cusack...

The Run of the Country

The Run of the Country
  • Author(s): Shane Connaughton
  • Location(s): County Cavan
  • Genre(s): Fiction

In both A Border Station (1989) and The Run of the Country, Connaughton skilfully mined his Cavan upbringing for stories that revolved around generational conflict, sectarian bigotry and doomed emotional attachment. Both works are very much of their time...

The Sacrament

The Sacrament
  • Author(s): Olaf Olafsson
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations...

The Sea

The Sea
  • Author(s): John Banville
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as...

The Searcher

The Searcher
  • Author(s): Tana French
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot...

The Secret Hours

The Secret Hours
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Let the wind take me and the soft rain settle me into the Irish soil from where I came. And may my sins be forgiven.’ Arethusa Clayton has always been formidable, used to getting her own way. On her...

The Secret Scripture

The Secret Scripture
  • Author(s): Sebastian Barry
  • Location(s): County Sligo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Winner of the 2008 Costa Book of the Year Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2008 Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2008 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008 A Sunday Times...

The Seventh Body

The Seventh Body
  • Author(s): Catherine Kirwan
  • Location(s): Cork City
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After decades of dereliction and inner-city neglect, Barrack Street, Cork is finally being excavated. The work uncovers the skeletal remains of six men, scattered around the site, their hands and feet all bound, all clearly killed violently, but many...

The Silent People

The Silent People
  • Author(s): Walter Macken
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1826

In Ireland in 1826 millions knew only famine, oppression and degradation. The landlords ground down the tenant famers; tithe wars and injustice were rife. But Dualta Duane battles against tyranny, struggling to survive the evils of hunger, poverty and...

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