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The Yankee Years Books 1 – 3

The Yankee Years Books 1 – 3
  • Author(s): Dianne Ascroft
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

After the Allied troops arrived in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland during the Second World War, life in the quiet, rural county would never be the same again. Book 1: The Shadow Ally June 1941: When Ruth Corey finds a...

The Yankee Years Books 4 – 6

The Yankee Years Books 4 – 6
  • Author(s): Dianne Ascroft
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

After the Allied troops arrived in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland during the Second World War, life in the quiet, rural county would never be the same again. The Christmas Cure December 1942: U.S. Army nurse, Lieutenant Marjorie Baxter, newly...

These Days

These Days
  • Author(s): Lucy Caldwell
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941

A Guardian and Observer Fiction Highlight for 2022 and a Bookseller Editor’s Choice The new novel from the Winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2021 **Available to pre-order now** Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941....

Trespasses

Trespasses
  • Author(s): Louise Kennedy
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1970s

One by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice. If Davy had remembered to put on a coat. If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street. If Michael Agnew had not walked through...

Truth Be Told

Truth Be Told
  • Author(s): Sue Divin
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland, County Armagh, Derry (Londonderry)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tara is from Derry, Faith is from Armagh; their lives are very different, but they look exactly the same – they just don’t know why… Two teens from very different backgrounds – Tara, the Catholic daughter of a two...

Tunnel of Mirrors

Tunnel of Mirrors
  • Author(s): Ferne Arfin
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 20th century, 1907 to 1928

1907 – Rachel Isaacson, spirited, otherworldly and haunted, is born into a rigidly Old World Family in New York’s Lower East Side. Hungry for independence, Rachel enters a marriage of convenience with violent consequences. Across the Atlantic, storyteller, fiddler...

White Leaves of Peace

White Leaves of Peace
  • Author(s): Tracey Iceton
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 90s-present day

Northern Ireland, Good Friday, 1998. The Belfast Peace Agreement is signed, the Troubles are officially over. This should be the start of a new life for nine year-old Cian Duffy. But growing up in peace-torn Belfast is not easy...

Who took Eden Mulligan?

Who took Eden Mulligan?
  • Author(s): Sharon Dempsey
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

‘They’re dead. They’re all dead. It’s my fault. I killed them.’ Those are the words of Iona Gardener, who stands bloodied and staring as she confesses to the murder of four people in a run-down cottage outside of Belfast....

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