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#BookReview | The Man on the Street by Trevor Wood

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne7th November 2019Leave a comment

He knows what he sawBut no one believes him– The Man on the Street [ About the Book ] It started with a splash. Jimmy, a homeless veteran grappling with PTSD, did his best to pretend he hadn’t heard it – the sound of something heavy falling into the Tyne at the height of an…

#BookReview | The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th November 20195 Comments

Having read and thoroughly enjoyed Sebastian Barry’s work in the past, I purchased the beautiful 2014 edition (Faber & Faber) of The Temporary Gentleman. Another heartrending and emotional read from Sebastian Barry, with a very dark tale at it’s core. [ About the Book ] Jack McNulty is a ‘temporary gentleman’, an Irishman whose commission…

#BookReview | Nothing Important Happened Today by @will_carver | @OrendaBooks | #NothingImportantHappenedToday

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne4th November 2019Leave a comment

We are The People of ChoiceThe ones now with courageAnd we choose not to fearThis is one solutionIt is not the endNor is it the beginningThere are always more who choose to liveThere is but one certainty– Nothing Important Happened Today [ About the Book ] Nine people arrive one night on Chelsea Bridge. They’ve…

#BookReview | #BarefootPilgrimage by Andrea Corr | @HCinIreland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st November 20192 Comments

‘I did not sit down at all, nor consider a destination. I just obeyed the pictures as they came. The questions. The fleeting moments. The present into the past. The present because of the past and back again with a few human, mad-gene detours along the way ‘– Andrea Corr, Barefoot Pilgrimage Andrea Corr, member…

#BookReview | Shooting and Cutting – A Memoir by Stephen Bradley | @stephensfilms | @MercierBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th October 20194 Comments

Some books have a special magic that just grab you very unexpectedly. Shooting and Cutting : A Survivor’s Guide to Filmmaking and Other Diseases by Stephen Bradley is one such read. In 2016 Stephen Bradley was diagnosed with stage IV cancer. As a film director, scriptwriter and producer, Stephen Bradley was used to working on…

#Bookreview | #RewriteTheStars by Emma Heatherington | @emmalou13 | @HCinIreland

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne23rd October 20194 Comments

‘It’s never too late to say I love you…’ Rewrite the Stars is the latest novel from bestselling author Emma Heatherington. Just published in paperback with Harper Collins, it is described as ‘a Sliding Doors meets One Day life-affirming story, it invites you to reassess all of your own tomorrows, it will inspire you to…

#BookReview | Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar by Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne18th October 2019Leave a comment

‘The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos, Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña‘ – Manhunters [ About the Book ] In the decades they spent at the DEA, Javier Peña and Steve Murphy risked their lives hunting large and small drug traffickers. But their biggest challenge…

#BookReview | #TheLostOnes by Anita Frank | @Ajes74 |@HQstories

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne16th October 20192 Comments

‘Think Downton Abbey on Halloween…a beautifully told big house story touched with ghosts and tragedy’ – The Lost Ones, HQ Stories [ About the Book ] Some houses are never at peace.England, 1917 Reeling from the death of her fiancé, Stella Marcham welcomes the opportunity to stay with her pregnant sister, Madeleine, at her imposing…

#BookReview | This Little Dark Place by A.S. Hatch

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne15th October 20192 Comments

How well do you know your girlfriend?How well do you know your lover?How well do you know yourself? [ About the Book ] Daniel and Victoria are together. They’re trying for a baby. Ruby is in prison, convicted of assault on an abusive partner. But when Daniel joins a pen pal program for prisoners, he…

#BookReview | #Canticle by Liz McSkeane | @EMcSkeane

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th October 2019Leave a comment

‘I did not ask for this commission, I do not want it and yet, here I am. I still do not understand what has persuaded me or whether, having agreed to carry it out, I have committed an act of wisdom or folly.’ – Fray Martín de Sepúlveda, Canticle [ About the Book ] Madrid,…

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