Blogs in March 2022

The Valley of the Squinting Windows 27th March 2022

‘Valley of the Squinting Windows’ is a classic Irish novel set in central Ireland c. 1914-16. Garradrimna is a tiny village where everyone is interested in everyone else’s business and wishes them to fail. Twenty years before the events...

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The Amusements 27th March 2022

In the resort town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season, reliving the best days of their childhoods at the seaside amusements. Local teenager Helen Grant is indifferent to the charm of her surroundings;...

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The Secret Scripture 27th March 2022

Winner of the 2008 Costa Book of the Year Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2008 Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2008 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008 A Sunday Times...

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The Wild Laughter 27th March 2022

Named a most anticipated title for 2020 by the Financial Times, The Irish Times and Rté. Hilarious, poignant and utterly fresh, The Wild Laughter cements Caoilinn Hughes’ position as one of Ireland’s most audacious, nuanced and insightful young writers....

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The House of Broken Angels 27th March 2022

‘All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death.’ In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan...

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