Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

The Rose Garden

The Rose Garden
  • Author(s): Marita Conlon-McKenna
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Molly’s perfect life comes crashing down following the unexpected death of her husband David. She is left alone with a big old house to maintain, finances in disarray and her hopes for happiness in a heap. But Molly is...

The Ruin

The Ruin
  • Author(s): Dervla McTiernan
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1993 / 2013

February 1993  On his first week on the job, Garda Cormac Reilly responds to a call at a decrepit country house to find two silent, neglected children waiting for him – fifteen-year-old Maude and five-year-old Jack. Their mother lies...

The Story of Before

The Story of Before
  • Author(s): Susan Stairs
  • Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

I wonder today how no one else could see the bad thing coming. Not that I knew back then what the bad thing was: and if I had – if I’d known one of us was going to die...

The Well of Ice (Inishowen Mysteries)

The Well of Ice (Inishowen Mysteries)
  • Author(s): Andrea Carter
  • Location(s): Inishowen
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

December in Glendara, Inishowen, and solicitor Benedicta ‘Ben’ O’Keeffe is working flat out before the holidays. But on a trip to Dublin to visit her parents, she runs into Luke Kirby – the man who killed her sister –...

The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty

The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
  • Author(s): Sebastian Barry
  • Location(s): County Sligo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves to be the defining decision of his life when,...

The Wrong Kind of Blood

The Wrong Kind of Blood
  • Author(s): Declan Hughes
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1950s

Noir, many threads and a gripping read. Ed Loy, Private Investigator returns to Dublin to bury his Mother. He begins to wonder what happened to his Father, a missing husband and a fired gun. Secrets from the past begin...

Three Bags Full

Three Bags Full
  • Author(s): Leonie Swann
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime

Miss Maple is a sheep. She leads her flock in investigating the murder of their shepherd, Geroge. Enterttaining and well written,a great cast of characters, this is a different take on crime writing.

Three Weddings and a Proposal

Three Weddings and a Proposal
  • Author(s): Sheila O'Flanagan
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At the first wedding, there‘s a shock The second wedding is unexpected By the third, Delphie thinks nothing could surprise her. But she’s wrong . . . Delphie is enjoying her brother’s wedding. Her surprise last-minute Plus One has...

TransAtlantic

TransAtlantic
  • Author(s): Colum McCann
  • Location(s): Ireland, New York City (NYC), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s onwards

1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the letters being...

Troubles

Troubles
  • Author(s): J G Farrell
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1919

1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough. But his fiancée is...

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

Register Now