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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...

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 Wardrobe Department

The Wardrobe Department
  • Author(s): Elaine Garvey
  • Location(s): County Donegal, The West End
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2002

Mairéad works all hours in a run-down West End theatre’s wardrobe department, her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running errands to mend shoes, fixing broken zips and handwashing underwear. She must also do her best to...

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...

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