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#BookReview | The Skelper and Me: A memoir of making history in Derry by Tony Doherty | @tonydutchdoc | @MercierBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne29th July 2020Leave a comment

‘The metal door of Cell 5 clanged heavily behind me. I realised I was in someone else’s space as I eyed the resident prisoner for the first time. In effect, I had just moved into his bedsit. It was 1 March 1981’– The Skelper and Me [ About the Book ] From a young age,…

#BookReview | #Feathertide by @BethCartwriter | @DelReyUK | #Blogtour

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th July 20206 Comments

‘A magical fairytale-inspired debut’– Feathertide [ About the Book ] A girl. A secret. A life-changing journey. Born covered in the feathers of a bird, and kept hidden in a crumbling house full of secrets, Marea has always known she was different, but never known why. And so to find answers, she goes in search…

#BookReview | #ADoubleLife by Charlotte Philby | @PhilbyWrites

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th July 20206 Comments

‘There are two sides to every story, and then there is the truth’ [ About the Book ] Gabriela, a senior negotiator in the FCO’s counter-terrorism unit, runs a small and powerful team based in Whitehall. She is tenacious, hard-working and the family breadwinner. Her partner Tom – a freelance architect – looks after their…

#BookReview | #MissBensonsBeetle by Rachel Joyce | @DoubledayUK | @RandomTTours

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd July 20206 Comments

“This is quintessential Joyce: at once poignant and playful, with huge heart and the same resonance, truth and lightness of touch as her phenomenallysuccessful debut, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.” – Miss Benson’s Beetle [ About the Book ] It is 1950, two unlikely women set off on a hare-brained adventureto the other side…

#BookReview | #AllTheLonelyPeople by @mikegayle | #BlogTour w/ @HodderBooks

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th July 20204 Comments

‘Hubert Bird is not alone in being alone.He just needs to realise it‘– All The Lonely People [ Book Description ] Life is waiting to happen to Hubert Bird. But first he has to open his front door and let it in. In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Bird paints…

#BookReview | How To Disappear by Gillian McAllister

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne13th July 20205 Comments

‘Zara thought she was doing the right thingLauren wants to protect her daughter at all costsZara witnessed a terrible crimeLauren will give up everything to keep her safeLauren doesn’t know what Zara is hiding‘– How to Disappear [ About the Book ] You can run, you can hide, but can you disappear for good? Lauren’s…

#BookReview | #ThePullOfTheStars by Emma Donoghue | @EDonoghueWriter | @picadorbooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th July 20204 Comments

‘A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and ROOM.‘– The Pull of the Stars [ Book Description ] Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an…

#Bookreview | #Expectation by @Anna_Hope

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne8th July 20206 Comments

‘What happened to the women we were supposed to become?’– Expectation [ Book Description ] Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry – and the promise of everything to come. They…

#BookReview | #BloodRedCity by Rod Reynolds | @Rod_WR | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th July 20204 Comments

‘Keeping the secret could cost your lifeTelling the secret could cost you everything‘-Blood Red City [ Book Description ] A witness with no victim. A crime with no crime scene… When crusading journalist Lydia Wright is sent a video of an apparent murder on a London train, she thinks she’s found the story to revive…

#BookReview | #TheBirdInTheBambooCage by @HazelGaynor | @HCinIreland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne3rd July 20206 Comments

‘Their motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war. . .‘– The Bird in the Bamboo Cage [ Book Description ] China, December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth Kent is now anxious to return home to…

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