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Her Husband’s Mistake

Her Husband’s Mistake
  • Author(s): Sheila O'Flanagan
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Dave’s made a BIG mistake. What’s Roxy going to do about it? The riveting new novel from No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O’Flanagan. Perfect for readers of Marian Keyes and Amanda Prowse. Roxy’s marriage has always been rock solid....

Juno and Juliet

Juno and Juliet
  • Author(s): Julian Gough
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A perfect slice of page-turning, intelligent escapism – a romantic comedy with a positively Shakespearean comic ending. ‘Juno & Juliet’ has twin blonde sisters, eighteen, arriving at university in Galway from their Tipperary home (and going back home for...

Killarney Blues

Killarney Blues
  • Author(s): Colin O'Sullivan
  • Location(s): Killarney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Picturesque Killarney might seem the perfect place to enjoy the rare gift of sun but the town has got the blues. Bernard Dunphy, eccentric jarvey and guitarist, is pining for his unrequited love and has to contend with an...

Last Train from Liguria

Last Train from Liguria
  • Author(s): Christine Dwyer Hickey
  • Location(s): Dublin, Liguria, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s and 1990s

From the bestselling Irish novelist, here comes a sweeping tale of consequences that spans from the 1930s to the 1990s. “Last Train from Liguria” takes us on a journey from claustrophobic Dublin and the tense formality of London, to...

Little Criminals

Little Criminals
  • Author(s): Gene Kerrigan
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Justin and Angela Kennedy have money, love, children and a limitless future. Jo-Jo Mackendrick is a pillar of Dublin gangland society: a man determined that nothing will endanger his hard-earned supremacy. Into their lives come Frankie Crowe, an ambitious...

Paddle

Paddle
  • Author(s): Jasper Winn
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Part memoir, part Irish travels, part lunatic endeavour, Jasper Winn’s account of paddling round Ireland in a kayak, during one the worst summers in recent history, is both hugely inspiring and entertaining. A journey of the mind – as...

Rain on the Wind

Rain on the Wind
  • Author(s): Walter Macken
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

From boyhood to manhood big, gentle Mico had but two passions in life – the sea, and a young girl so terrible lovely-lookin’ it raised your heart to heaven just to see her smile. But with a hideous birthmark...

Reckoning

Reckoning
  • Author(s): Keith Baker
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Tom Gallagher is traumatized by the past, an FBI agent in control of a disastrous operation, haunted by the guilt of innocent deaths. Back in Ireland, hoping for a fresh start and a chance to re-establish his relationship with...

Red Ribbons

Red Ribbons
  • Author(s): Louise Phillips
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

THE SERIAL KILLER A missing schoolgirl is found buried in the Dublin Mountains, hands clasped together in prayer, two red ribbons in her hair. Twenty-four hours later, a second schoolgirl is found in a shallow grave – her body...

Red Sky in Morning

Red Sky in Morning
  • Author(s): Paul Lynch
  • Location(s): County Donegal, New Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

Spring 1832: Donegal, north west Ireland. Coll Coyle wakes to a blood dawn and a day he does not want to face. The young father stands to lose everything on account of the cruel intentions of his landowner’s heedless...

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