Blogs in March 2022

Amongst Women 24th March 2022

‘A book that can be read in two hours, but will linger in the mind for decades.’ Sunday Telegraph Once an officer in the Irish War for Independence, Moran is now a widower, eking out a living on a...

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The Sunken Road 21st March 2022

Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Annie, Francie and Archie were inseparable growing up, but in 1914 the boys are seduced by the drama of the Great War. Before leaving their small Irish village for the...

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Reading in the Dark 20th March 2022

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...

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Country 20th March 2022

That was the start of it. A terrible business altogether. Oh, it was all kept off the news, for the sake of the talks and the ceasefire. But them that were around that part of the country remember every...

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The Raptures 19th March 2022

When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has devastating and extraordinary consequences. It is late June in Ballylack. Hannah Adger anticipates eight long weeks’ reprieve from school,...

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