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#BookReview | #TheQuietMan (McGarry Stateside #3) by Caimh McDonnell | @Caimh | @McFori_Ink

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne20th October 20202 Comments

‘Getting into prison is easy, it’s getting out that’s tricky.’– The Quiet Man [ About the Book ] Almost everyone in prison will tell you they’re in there for a crime they didn’t commit, but Anthony Rourke really means it. That’s because he’s actually Bunny McGarry, who has got himself into one of Nevada’s finest…

#BookReview | #AnxiousPeople by Fredrik Backman | @MichaelJBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne16th October 20207 Comments

‘One bank robber.Seven strangers.And a really bad idea…’– Anxious People [ About the Book ] In a small town in Sweden it appears to be an ordinary day. But look more closely, and you’ll see a mysterious masked figure approaching a bank… Two hours later, chaos has descended. A bungled attempted robbery has developed into…

#BookReview | #TheNothingMan by Catherine Ryan Howard

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th October 20202 Comments

She can’t stop writing until she finds the killer.He can’t stop reading because the killer is him.– The Nothing Man [ About the Book ] I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man. Now, I am the woman who is going to catch him. You’ve just read the opening pages of The Nothing Man, the true…

#BookReview | #PeopleOfAbandonedCharacter by Clare Whitfield | @whitfield_riley | @HoZ_Books

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st October 2020Leave a comment

He is my husband.To honour and obey.Until murder do us part.– People of Abandoned Character [ About the Book ] London, 1888: Tormented by the death of her secret lover, Nurse Susannah Chapman rushes into marriage to a doctor. While attracted to her adoring, younger husband, she is more than aware her decision is at…

#BookReview | #TheThursdayMurderClub by Richard Osman

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th September 202012 Comments

‘Killing someone is easy. Hiding the body, now that’s usually the hard part. That’s how you get caught’– The Thursday Murder Club [ About the Book ] In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep,…

#BookReview | #TheSevenDoors by Agnes Ravatn | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne18th September 2020Leave a comment

The long-awaited new novel from the award-winning author of The Bird Tribunal– The Seven Doors [ About the Book ] University professor Nina is at a turning point. Her work seems increasingly irrelevant, her doctor husband is never home, relations with her difficult daughter are strained, and their beautiful house is scheduled for demolition. When her…

#BookReview | #WhateverItTakes by @TadhgCoakley | @corkcitylibrary | #OneCityOneBook | @MercierBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne16th September 20205 Comments

‘He is determined to win,whatever the cost,whatever it takes’ [About the Book ] Set in Cork city, Detective Garda Collins is at war with the leading local criminal, Dominic Molloy. Unwilling to accept the human degradation caused by Molloy’s drugs, violence and prostitution. He has made up his mind to bring Molloy down, but just…

#BookReview | #GirlWomanOther by Bernardine Evaristo

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th September 20203 Comments

BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR & FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER– Girl, Woman, Other [ About the Book ] This is Britain as you’ve never read it.This is Britain as it has never been told. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century…

#BookReview | #TheGloriousGuinnessGirls by Emily Hourican | @EmilyH71 | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th September 202010 Comments

Three sistersOne shared destiny-The Glorious Guinness Girls [ About the Book ] The Glorious Guinness Girls are the toast of London and Dublin society. Darlings of the press, Aileen,Maureen and Oonagh lead charmed existences that are the envy of many. But Fliss knows better. Sent to live with them as a child, she grows up as part…

#BookReview | Eleven Lines to Somewhere by Alyson Rudd | @allyrudd_times | @HQstories | #ElevenLines

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne8th September 20204 Comments

In a world of what-ifs…..a connection has been made.– Eleven Lines to Somewhere [ About the Book ] When Ryan spots a young woman on the tube on his commute, he can’t take his eyes off her. Instantly attracted and intrigued, he’s keen to find out more about his mysterious fellow passenger. The woman he…

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