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Ulysses

Ulysses
  • Author(s): James Joyce
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

James Joyce’s astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom’s voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this...

Waking Up in Dublin

Waking Up in Dublin
  • Author(s): Mic Moroney
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Ireland’s music has known few better times, with bands like U2 and the Pogues adopting a global yet somehow parochial presence. But there’s more to the country than multimedia stage shows and stumbling drunkards with bad teeth. Mic Moroney,...

5 Peppermint Grove

5 Peppermint Grove
  • Author(s): Michelle Walsh Jackson
  • Location(s): Dublin, Perth
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2011/2012

Emigration, emigration, emigration . . . Ruth Travers is leaving Ireland like so many of the Irish Diaspora who have gone before her. But, instead of a coffin ship, she’s travelling business class on a Boeing 777 and will...

One Kiss in Havana

One Kiss in Havana
  • Author(s): Michelle Walsh Jackson
  • Location(s): Dublin, Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Emma, Louise and Sophie are sisters. Talented, artistic and creative, they have a lot in common especially when it comes to men. When Emma receives two tickets to Cuba in the post from her late husband she is more...

Closed Casket

Closed Casket
  • Author(s): Sophie Hannah
  • Location(s): Clonakilty
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Hercule Poirot returns in another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his ‘little grey cells’. ‘What I intend to say to you will come as a shock . . .’ Lady...

The Heart Whisperer

The Heart Whisperer
  • Author(s): Ella Griffin
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Claire Dillon still lives in the shadow of the past. On her thirty-third birthday, she gives herself a present. One year to change her future. Claire Dillon’s mother had everything to live for. A husband, two children, a successful...

Two Days in Biarritz

Two Days in Biarritz
  • Author(s): Michelle Walsh Jackson
  • Location(s): Biarritz, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

They’re chalk and cheese but always the best of friends . . . until Biarritz! Meet best friends Kate and Annabel, all set to celebrate a big birthday in style. And where better to do it than the chic...

Future Popes of Ireland

Future Popes of Ireland
  • Author(s): Darragh Martin
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In 1979 Bridget Doyle has one goal left in life: for her family to produce the very first Irish pope. Fired up by John Paul II’s appearance in Phoenix Park, she sprinkles Papal-blessed holy water on the marital bed...

56 Days

56 Days
  • Author(s): Catherine Ryan Howard
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction

No one even knew they were together. Now one of them is dead. 56 DAYS AGO Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGO...

Acts of Desperation

Acts of Desperation
  • Author(s): Megan Nolan
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010s

‘Such brilliant writing about female desire…honest and visceral’ Marian Keyes She’s twenty-three and in love with love. He’s older, and the most beautiful man she’s ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind...

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