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Small Things Like These

Small Things Like These
  • Author(s): Claire Keegan
  • Location(s): County Wexford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1985

It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet...

So Many Ways to Begin

So Many Ways to Begin
  • Author(s): Jon McGregor
  • Location(s): Aberdeen, County Donegal, Coventry
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s onward

The book follows a Museum Curator and adopted son through his life. Forgotten times, post war Britain, this is a piecing together of one life through mementos past and present. A life set in the context of history.

The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories

The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories
  • Author(s): Brian J Showers
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Short Stories

This book brings to the author’s Dublin neighborhood with a variety of ghosts, ghouls and goblins. The stories are full of fascinating local history, atmosphere and architectural details that one can still see today.

The City of Strangers

The City of Strangers
  • Author(s): Michael Russell
  • Location(s): Dublin, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1939

Longlisted for the CWA John Creasy New Blood Dagger Award, the eagerly awaited sequel to CITY OF SHADOWS New York, 1939: A city of hope. A city of opportunity. A city hiding dark secrets … A brutal murder in...

The Home Scar

The Home Scar
  • Author(s): Kathleen MacMahon
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 1980s

On opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie and Christo have built their lives around work, intent on ignoring their painful past. When a dramatic storm in Galway hits the headlines, they’re drawn back there to revisit a glorious...

The Hunter

The Hunter
  • Author(s): Tana French
  • Location(s): West Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in the village. They’re coming for gold. What they bring is trouble. Cal Hooper was a Chicago detective, till he moved to the West of Ireland looking for peace. He’s found...

The Last Days of the Tiger

The Last Days of the Tiger
  • Author(s): Pat Mullan
  • Location(s): Connemara, Dublin, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Burnt-out lawyer Ed Burke flees New York, a failed marriage, and a high pressure career as a criminal attorney and returns home to Dublin, Europe’s most happening city. Hand-in-hand with the new prosperity, a culture of ruthless corruption has...

The Little Red Chairs

The Little Red Chairs
  • Author(s): Edna O'Brien
  • Location(s): Balkans, Ireland, London, The Hague (Den Haag)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s and 2000s

When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic stranger from the Balkans. One woman in particular, Fidelma McBride, becomes enthralled in...

The Mammy

The Mammy
  • Author(s): Brenda O'Carroll
  • Location(s): Dublin, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The first book in the Agnes Browne trilogy: the basis for Brendan’s BAFTA-nominated ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’ TV series, and ‘Agnew Browne’, a film starring Anjelica Huston and Tom Jones. ‘And what was the cause of death?’ ‘A Hunter’, Agnes...

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...

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