Blogs in April 2025

The Queen of Dirt Island 9th April 2025

The Aylward women are mad about each other, but you wouldn’t always think it. You’d have to know them – in spite of what neighbours might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes – to know that that their...

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Heart, Be at Peace 26th March 2024

I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two. In a small town in rural Ireland, the local...

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Pure Poison 1st May 2023

A humorous whodunnit set in a small town in Ireland When a resident of Magnerstown is found dead, cynical Inspector Robert Carroll poo-poos his younger sidekick James Sayder’s suspicions of murder. He struggles to believe it even when the...

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Strange Flowers 3rd December 2020

In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parents, Paddy and Kit, begin to accept that she’s gone forever. But she returns, changed, and with a few surprises for her family...

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The Spinning Heart 2nd July 2020

In the aftermath of Ireland’s financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling to tell their...

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