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#BookReview of #UntoThisLast by @rebecca_lipkin

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th January 20212 Comments

London 1858, John Ruskin is an eccentric genius famed cross Britain.An obsession with a young student changes the course of his life forever– Unto This Last [ About the Book ] “Men ought to be severely exercised and disciplined in daily life, they should learn to lie on stone beds and eat black soup, but…

#BookReview of #ThePush by Ashley Audrain @audrain @michaeljbooks #BlogTour

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne27th January 20219 Comments

‘The women in this family, we’re different . . .’– The Push [ About The Book ] “We expect to have good mothers, and to marry, and to be good mothers. The arrival of baby Violet was meant to be the happiest day of my life. I would be different. I would be like other…

#BookReview of #BlackIrishBlues by @andrewcotto | @brwpublisher

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne26th January 2021Leave a comment

A Caesar Stiles Mystery [ About the Book ] Black Irish Blues is the return-to-origin story of Caesar Stiles, an erstwhile runaway who returns to his hometown with plans to buy the town’s only tavern and end his family’s Sicilian curse. Caesar’s attempt for redemption is complicated by the spectral presence of his estranged father, reparation…

#BookReview of #Family by @OwenMullen6 @BoldwoodBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd January 2021Leave a comment

Family – might be the death of you… [ About the Book ] The Glass family business is crime, and they’re good at what they do. Vengeance took Luke Glass behind bars – but now he’s free and he’s never going back. Luke wants out of the gangster life – all he has to do…

#BookReview of #TRUST by Chris Hammer | @hammerNow @Wildfirebks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne19th January 20212 Comments

‘The third Martin Scarsden novel from the author of the CWA John Creasy (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER award-winning SCRUBLANDS’– TRUST [ About the Book ] On a bright sunny day in Port Silver, ex-journalist Martin Scarsden misses a call from his girlfriend Mandy. Checking his voicemail later, all he hears is her terrified scream before the…

#BookReview of #CaptainJesus by @colette_snowden | @Ofmooseandmen

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st December 20204 Comments

“I was the eldest, I should have stopped it. It wasn’t my idea but I still feel like it was my fault. There’s a difference and the difference is guilt”– Captain Jesus Well folks we are almost to the end of a year that has been like no other in recent times, a year when…

#BookReview of #TheStrangerTimes by C.K. McDonnell @Caimh | @ThomasssHill

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th December 2020Leave a comment

‘First in a new series of supernatural thrillers centred around a struggling Manchester-based weekly newspaper dedicated to investigating the weird, the unexplained and the inexplicable’– The Stranger Times [ About the Book ] There are Dark Forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular) and so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand…

#BookReview of #TheSapphireChild by Janet MacLeod Trotter @MacLeodTrotter

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne4th December 20204 Comments

‘In the dying days of the Raj, can paths divided by time and circumstance ever find each other again?‘– The Sapphire Child [ About the Book ] In 1930s Northern India, childhood friends Stella and Andrew have grown up together in the orbit of the majestic Raj Hotel. Spirited Stella has always had a soft…

#BookReview of #SavingLucia by Anna Vaught @BookwormVaught | @Ofmooseandmen

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne3rd December 20202 Comments

‘Those who are confined have the very best imaginations’– Saving Lucia [ About the Book ] How would it be if four silenced women went on a tremendous adventure, reshaping their pasts and futures as they went? What if one of those people were a fascinating, forgotten aristocratic assassin and another a fellow patient of…

#BookReview | #TheSmallestMan by Frances Quinn | @franquinn | @simonschusterUK | #Blogtour with @RandomTTours

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne27th November 20202 Comments

‘The smallest man. The biggest heart. The mightiest story.‘– The Smallest Man [ About the Book ] Nat Davy longs to grow tall and strong and be like other boys, but at the age of ten, he’s confronted with the truth; he’s different, and the day when the stares and whispers stop is never going…

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