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Jump Derry

Jump Derry
  • Author(s): Christine Donovan
  • Location(s): Derry (Londonderry)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 2000s

Easter 2005, and Irish dancing champion Janie can win the feis but has no idea how to have a boyfriend. And when her first one, Martin, is a parkour freerunner, she can’t keep up as he jumps and flips...

The First Time I Said Goodbye

The First Time I Said Goodbye
  • Author(s): Claire Allan
  • Location(s): Derry (Londonderry)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1959 and 2010

Would you hold on tighter if you knew you were saying goodbye forever? In 1959, factory girl Stella Hegarty finds herself falling unexpectedly for the charms of a handsome US marine based in Derry.Caught up in a whirlwind of...

Hurt

Hurt
  • Author(s): Brian McGilloway
  • Location(s): Derry (Londonderry), Northern Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Late December. A sixteen-year-old girl is found dead on a train line. Detective Sergeant Lucy Black is called to identify the body. The only clues to the dead teenager’s last movements are stored in her mobile phone and on...

Reading in the Dark

Reading in the Dark
  • Author(s): Seamus Deane
  • Location(s): Derry (Londonderry)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood. The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal intrigue. As a young boy tries to make sense...

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...

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