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Monthly Archives: May 2019

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#BookReview | The House on the Edge of the Cliff by Carol Drinkwater | @Carol4OliveFarm | @MichaelJBooks | #BlogTour

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd May 20197 Comments

It’s the perfect hideaway.Until he finds her….. [ About the Book ] No one else knows what happened that summer. Or so she believes . . .  Grace first came to France a lifetime ago. Young and full of dreams of adventure, she met two very different men.She fell under the spell of one. The…

Anna of Kleve Queen of Secrets (#SixTudorQueens – Book 4) by Alison Weir

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st May 20192 Comments

Anna of Kleve – A German Princess with a guilty secret [ About the Book ] The King is in love with Anna’s portrait, but she has none of the accomplishments he seeks in a new bride. She prays she will please Henry, for the balance of power in Europe rests on this marriage alliance.…

#TheDen by Abi Maxwell | #BOOKGIVEAWAY | A #RandomThingsTours Blog Tour with @TinderPress

Blog Tour, BookGiveawayBy Mairéad Hearne20th May 2019Leave a comment

A hypnotic story of youth, sex and power.A story of two women cast out by the same community though separated by a hundred years A story of two extraordinary, magnetic women and their disappearances – a hundred years apart – from the small New England town they call home. I AM VERY EXCITED to be…

The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen | @wordsofhelen |#Bookreview |#LostLetters

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne17th May 20191 Comment

‘Lost letters have only one hope for survival. If they are caught between two worlds, with an unclear destination and no address of sender, the lucky ones are redirected to the Dead Letters Depot in East London for a final chance of redemption…..’ [ About the Book ] Inside East London’s Dead Letters Depot, William…

#TheLibertyGirls by Fiona Ford | @Fionajourno |@arrowpublishing | #BookReview | #BlogTour

Blog Tour, Book Review, UncategorisedBy Mairéad Hearne16th May 2019Leave a comment

Amid the hardship of war, friends will become their family [ About the Book ] March, 1942 New mother Alice Milwood is itching to return to her job as a shop assistant at Liberty’s. Despite her husband still being missing in action, Alice is determined to give baby Arthur the best possible start. She soon…

Murder at Macbeth by Samantha Goodwin | #GuestPost | #Extract

Extract, Guest PostBy Mairéad Hearne15th May 2019Leave a comment

WHOSE DEADLY SECRET HAS TAKEN CENTRE STAGE? Today I hand over my blog to Samantha Goodwin, author of debut novel Murder at Macbeth. Due for publication on 17th May, it is described as ‘a hugely gripping police procedural full of unpredictable twists and suspense’ Murder at Macbeth was longlisted for the international Flash 500 Novel…

#TurbulentWake by @Hardisty_Paul | #BookReview | #BlogTour | @OrendaBooks

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th May 20192 Comments

Swings from the coral cays of the Caribbean to the dangerous deserts of Yemen and the wild rivers of Africa, drawing on the author’s own experiences. [ About the Book ] Ethan Scofield returns to the place of his birth to bury his father. Hidden in one of the upstairs rooms of the old man’s…

Saving Francesca Maier by @ClaireWingfield | #Extract

ExtractBy Mairéad Hearne13th May 2019Leave a comment

Can you leave the past in another country? Written by Claire Wingfield, Saving Francesca Maier was published in March 2019 by Off The Press Books Set in Berlin it is the first book in the This City series and it tells the story of a couple who take their teenage daughter to her father’s home…

#TheFirstRoseOfTralee by Patricia O’ Reilly | @PatriciaDublin | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th May 20195 Comments

‘She was lovely and fair as the rose of the summerYet ’twas not her beauty alone that won meOh no ’twas the truth in her eyes ever dawningthat made me love Mary, the Rose of Tralee’ ‘The love story that inspired Ireland’s famous festival’ [ About the Book ] Mary O’Connor, beautiful daughter of the…

#LittleDarlings by Melanie Golding | @mk_golding | @HQstories | #BookReview | #NotMyBaby

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th May 20192 Comments

THE TWINS ARE CRYING.THE TWINS ARE HUNGRY LAUREN IS CRYINGLAUREN IS EXHAUSTED… [ About the Book ] Behind the hospital curtain, someone is waiting . . . Lauren is alone on the maternity ward with her new-born twins when a terrifying encounter in the middle of the night leaves her convinced someone is trying to…

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