Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

This Is Happiness

This Is Happiness
  • Author(s): Niall Williams
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now –...

This Plague of Souls

This Plague of Souls
  • Author(s): Mike McCormack
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do you rebuild a world that seems to be falling apart? Nealon returns to his family home in Ireland after a long time away, only to be greeted by a completely empty house. No heat or light, no...

To the Island

To the Island
  • Author(s): Patricia Forde, Nicola Bernardelli (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Galway, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Fia looks out her window and across the bay. She longs to see the mysterious island, which appears and disappears in the water. One night a moonbeam reaches across the bay and leads her to the island. She walks...

Toward the Sea of Freedom

Toward the Sea of Freedom
  • Author(s): Sarah Lark
  • Location(s): Ireland, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

Part one of a trilogy charting a love story that sees two Irish young people both end up in the new young country of New Zealand. In mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, charming Kathleen and dashing Michael harbor secrets and dreams. Imagining...

Treacherous Strand (Inishowen Mysteries)

Treacherous Strand (Inishowen Mysteries)
  • Author(s): Andrea Carter
  • Location(s): Inishowen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A woman’s body washes up on a remote beach on the Inishowen peninsula. Partially-clothed, with a strange tattoo on her thigh, she is identified as Marguerite Etienne, a French woman who has been living in the area. Solicitor Benedicta...

Uncle Joe’s Revenge (Death On The Cut)

Uncle Joe’s Revenge (Death On The Cut)
  • Author(s): K E Heaton
  • Location(s): Ireland, North-West England
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Devastated by recent events in Ireland Anthony Smith decides to return to the U.K. start a new life and hopefully vanish completely. Despite help from old friends Bob and Elaine who provide a narrow boat on the Leeds Liverpool...

Virgin and Child

Virgin and Child
  • Author(s): Maggie Hamand
  • Location(s): County Cork, Rome, Vatican City
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

‘A surprisingly realistic and robust exploration of the church’s view on femininity, abortion, the body, love and more… clever and intriguing’ – The Irish Times In Virgin & Child, acclaimed novelist, Maggie Hamand tackles issues of abortion, sexuality, gender,...

Water Street

Water Street
  • Author(s): J P Maxwell
  • Location(s): Liverpool, Ireland, London, New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Historical, Espionage, Fiction
  • Era(s): Victorian

Liverpool 1863. The American Civil War comes to the British Empire’s second city and the world’s richest port. Confederate Commander Banastre X. Dunwoody has a plan to turn the conflict by securing advanced warships, but the U.S. Government is...

We All Fall Down

We All Fall Down
  • Author(s): Various
  • Location(s): Venice, Edinburgh, Greece, Ireland, Italy, London, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Medieval, Renaissance

Plague has no favorites. In this anthology, USA Today, international bestselling, and award-winning authors imagine a world where anyone—rich, poor, young, old—might be well in the morning and dead by sundown. Readers will follow in the footsteps of those...

What Eden Did Next

What Eden Did Next
  • Author(s): Sheila O'Flanagan
  • Location(s): Dublin, France, Wexford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Five years after the death of her firefighter husband, Eden knows better than anyone that life can change in an instant. Now, instead of the future she had planned with Andy, she has Lila – the daughter he never...

Would you like to add a book or a review or create a reading list? Join Today – It's FREE

Register Now