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#BookReview of #SomebodyKnows by Michelle McDonagh | @michellemcd | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne5th June 2024Leave a comment

‘Home truths come at a heavy price …’– Somebody Knows [ About Somebody Knows ] As her adoptive mother lays dying, journalist Cara Joyce overhears a shocking piece of information about her origins. It connects her to a tragic death – that of Lucia Casey, a young woman whose body was found buried in a Connemara…

#BookReview of #TheBedlamCadaver by Robert J. Lloyd | @robjlloyd | @melvillehouse

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne4th June 2024Leave a comment

‘In late 17th Century London rich young women are being kidnapped, then murdered. Harry Hunt, formerly of the Royal Society but now a rich gentleman, is falsely accused. To clear his name, he must rely on his abandoned scientific expertise and battle the full force of the British aristocracy’– The Bedlam Cadaver [ About Bedlam…

#BookReview of #TheItalianHoliday by Catherine Mangan | @CathManganBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne31st May 2024Leave a comment

‘Escape to Italy and fall in love with this perfect summer read…’– The Italian Holiday [ About The Italian Holiday] Floundering junior travel writer Katie has just been given the opportunity of her career. Her boss can’t make her trip to the idyllic but little-known Italian island of Ponza, and Katie must step into her…

#BookReview of #TheGratefulWater by Juliana Adelman | @NewIslandBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th May 2024Leave a comment

‘A detective story that swelters and smells of the oppressively hot Dublin summer 1866, by a debut fiction author steeped in the history of the city’– The Grateful Water (Publisher Quote) [ About The Grateful Water ] When a young butcher spots a strange shape on the banks of the River Liffey in the hot…

#BookReview of #Habitat by @catriona_shine| @LilliputPress

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th May 20242 Comments

[ About Habitat ] Habitat follows seven neighbours over the course of a surreal and life-changing week as their mid-century apartment building in Oslo begins to inexplicably break down around them. Connected by familial ties, long acquaintance, simmering feuds and longing glimpses, the residents of the building are bound to one another in more ways than…

#BookReview of #GhostMountain by Rónán Hession |@MumblinDeafRo | @Ofmooseandmen

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st May 20241 Comment

‘Mountains are at once unmistakably present yet never truly fathomable.‘– Ghost Mountain [ About Ghost Mountain ] Ghost Mountain, is a simple fable-like novel about a mountain that appears suddenly, and the way in which its manifestation ripples through the lives of characters in the surrounding community. It looks at the uncertain fragile sense of…

#BookReview of #TheHoneymoonAffair by @sheilaoflanagan

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne17th May 20242 Comments

‘The irresistible, utterly satisfying new contemporary novel from beloved bestseller, Sheila O’Flanagan’– The Honeymoon Affair [ About The Honeymoon Affair ] Izzy is in the Caribbean on the honeymoon-that-isn’t after her fiancé broke her heart. She’s not looking for someone new. But when she meets Charles Miller, a successful writer holidaying alone, the electricity is…

#BookReview of #YouAreHere by David Nicholls

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne15th May 20242 Comments

‘A new love story by beloved bestseller David Nicholls, You Are Here is a novel of first encounters, second chances and finding the way home.‘ [ About You Are Here ] Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way Marnie is stuck.Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a…

#Bookreview of #TheDyingTime by Anthony Carragher

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th May 2024Leave a comment

‘Follows a successful architect whose carefully constructed life is turned on its head when a malevolent stranger arrives unexpectedly at her lighthouse home’– The Dying Time [ About The Dying Time ] Architect Kate O’Connor appears to have it all. A lighthouse home, a successful politician husband and an eight-year-old daughter. Yet everything is not…

#BookReview of #TheTrial by Jo Spain | @QuercusBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne8th May 2024Leave a comment

‘He vanished ten years ago. Only they know the truth.’– The Trial [ About The Trial ] 2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical student Theo gets up one morning, leaving behind his sleeping girlfriend, Dani, and his studies – never to be seen again. With…

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