‘HISTORY REPEATS WHAT WE DON’T REMEMBER . . .‘– Take My Hand [ About the Book ] Montgomery, Alabama. 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference in her community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help women make their own choices for their lives…
‘ The Amusements “The writing, so true to small-town life, is both shrewd and enlarging. ” – Anne Enright [ About the Book ] In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season, reliving the best days of their childhoods in its caravan parks, chippers and amusement arcades.…
‘Meet George and Alice before they meet each other’– Life Before Us [ About the Book ] Three facts about GeorgeHis daughter Suzi is the best thing in his life.He thinks it might finally be time to get over Suzi’s mum.He’s never tried online dating but there’s a first time for everything. Three facts about…
‘The brand new novel from the Costa-shortlisted author of Big Girl, Small Town’– Factory Girls [ About the Book ] Smart-mouthed and filthy-minded, Maeve Murray has always felt like an outsider in the shitty wee town in Northern Ireland that she calls home. She hopes her exam results will be her ticket to a new…
ONE PERSON’S BANISHED MEMORY IS ANOTHER’S UNFINISHED BUSINESS– Crookedwood [ About the Book ] Crookedwood, quiet Irish midlands town, place of secrets, past and present. Sarah left it behind years ago for life in the city, where she’s now a rising star of the Dublin culinary scene. She’s home to help her mother sell the…
“Academically I was backward because sheer laziness deterred me from using what was in any case a fairly limited intelligence. But my early sharing in adult problems and responsibilities had made me, emotionally, unusually mature”– Wheels within Wheels [ About the Book ] What is it that makes us who we are? In this beautifully…
TWO CULTURES. TWO FAMILIES. TWO PEOPLE.– Love Marriage [ About the Book ] Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine, and a charming, handsome fiancée, fellow doctor Joe Sangster. But as the wedding day draws closer and Yasmin’s parents get to know Joe’s firebrand feminist…
‘Across the dark, slick surface of Lough Atoon, Blackwater Hall hove into view. It was less grand than she remembered, but handsome enough – not quite a pile; more sprawling than imposing. Thick ivy covered the walls, and its blue slate roof was scattered with a dozen chimney pots. Three rows of white sash windows…
‘A COMPULSIVE STORY ABOUT THE POWERS AND FLEETINGNESS OF FRIENDSHIP, LOVE AND LIFE‘ – FROM THE AUTHOR OF FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS [ About the Book ] 1986: Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and become inseparable. They promise each other they will one day leave their provincial backwater,…
‘IN A WORLD RULED BY GODS AND HEROES, THE VOICES OF STRONG WOMEN HAVE BEEN SILENCED.UNTIL NOW’– ELEKTRA [ About the Book ] The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance. This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably tied to this curse, and…