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Mother Mother

Mother Mother
  • Author(s): Annie Macmanus
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER ‘A brilliant book…that explores the brutal legacy of addiction and the consequences of a deep grief left to stagnate’ SARA COX ‘A work of gilded melancholy that is going to take everyone by...

The Good Son

The Good Son
  • Author(s): Paul McVeigh
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Mickey Donnelly is smart, which isn’t a good thing in his part of town. Despite having a dog called Killer and being in love with the girl next door, everyone calls him ‘gay’. It doesn’t help that his best...

Siren

Siren
  • Author(s): Annemarie Neary
  • Location(s): Belfast, County Cork
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s and mid 2000s

A dark and suspenseful psychological thriller about the slippery nature of truth in post-conflict Ireland, and a redemptive story of a woman claiming back her own identity. Róisín Burns has spent the past twenty years becoming someone else; her...

The House of Ashes

The House of Ashes
  • Author(s): Stuart Neville
  • Location(s): Belfast, County Antrim
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back 60 years

For Sara Keane, it was supposed to be a second chance. A new country. A new house. A new beginning with her husband Damien. Then came the knock on the door. Elderly Mary Jackson can’t understand why Sara and...

Truth or Dare

Truth or Dare
  • Author(s): Sara Sheridan
  • Location(s): Belfast, Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Nominated for a Saltire Award, Truth or Dare is a comic, compassionate and powerful tale of friendship, secrets & premeditated murder. Belfast-born architect, Libby & her sassy sidekick Becka are happy squatting in bank-employee, Lorna’s London flat till they...

The Tea House on Mulberry Street

The Tea House on Mulberry Street
  • Author(s): Sharon Owens
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

This book interweaves the lives and stories of several well crafted characters, and the tea house is the thread that binds them all. This is a book, set in Belfast, where people find comfort in tea and food.

A Force to be reckoned with

A Force to be reckoned with
  • Author(s): Linda Hagan
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DCI Gawn Girvin is on leave, waiting to hear the outcome of an internal affairs investigation when her godfather, Assistant Chief Constable Norman Smyth, asks her to revisit a missing persons case as a personal favour before he retires....

Cal

Cal
  • Author(s): Bernard MacLaverty
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980’s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple: he can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or...

Close to Home

Close to Home
  • Author(s): Michael Magee
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Luminous and devastating, a portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by class, by trauma, and by silence, but also by the courage to love and to survive Sean’s brother Anthony is a hard man. When they were kids their...

Common Decency

Common Decency
  • Author(s): Susannah Dickey
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In an apartment building in Belfast, two women wrestle with the sorrows and spectres of love and loss. Since her mother’s death, Lily has withdrawn from the world, trapped between grief and anger. She has to break out of...

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