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The Coast Road

The Coast Road
  • Author(s): Alan Murrin
  • Location(s): County Donegal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1994

It’s 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley – the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her husband and sons to pursue a relationship with a married man in Dublin. But now Colette...

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 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 –...

Red Sky in Morning

Red Sky in Morning
  • Author(s): Paul Lynch
  • Location(s): County Donegal, New Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

Spring 1832: Donegal, north west Ireland. Coll Coyle wakes to a blood dawn and a day he does not want to face. The young father stands to lose everything on account of the cruel intentions of his landowner’s heedless...

Maranatha

Maranatha
  • Author(s): John Mullen
  • Location(s): County Donegal, Salisbury
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

Sarah is in a loveless marriage with an apathetic husband and grown up children. Diagnosed as having a life threatening illness, she is shocked at the coldness of her family s reaction. After undergoing radical treatment in hospital Sarah...

Anywhere but Here

Anywhere but Here
  • Author(s): Vicki Notaro
  • Location(s): County Donegal
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three friends at life-changing crossroads . . . Matilda: Living the dream: presenting breakfast TV in Dublin and married to a man with a mega media career in the UK. But when she turns up in their London flat...

Death at Whitewater Church (Inishowen Mysteries)

Death at Whitewater Church (Inishowen Mysteries)
  • Author(s): Andrea Carter
  • Location(s): Inishowen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Saltwater

Saltwater
  • Author(s): Jessica Andrews
  • Location(s): County Donegal, London, Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Shortlisted for the Portico Prize. When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. It is a city alive with pop up bars, cool girls and neon lights illuminating the Thames at night. At...

Saoirse

Saoirse
  • Author(s): Charleen Hurtubise
  • Location(s): County Donegal
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1999

In the wilds of Donegal, Ireland, 1999, Saoirse is an artist living an outwardly idyllic life. Her tender husband Daithí and two beloved daughters are regular subjects for her work, and in them she has found the safe home...

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