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#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…

#BookReview & #GuestPost – #TheMidnightMan by Julie Anderson | @jjulieanderson | @HobeckBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne7th May 20241 Comment

‘Capturing the spirit of the place and the challenges and threats it faced, some from the predominantly male establishment of the time, was very important to me. It was a unique and special place. I wanted it to live again, even if only in a crime fiction book.’– Julie Anderson, author of The Midnight Man…

#BookReview of #SpiritLevel by @RichyCraven | @eriu_books

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th April 20242 Comments

‘Would this be his life from now on, falling asleep in a semi-drunken haze as the spirit of his best friend watched telly in the next room? Waking up hungover every morning and grimly consuming spirits? How long could he keep that up?’– Spirit Level [ About Spirit Level ] Danny Hook is a directionless…

#BookReview of #Greener by Gráinne Murphy | @GraMurphy | @Legend_Times_

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne18th April 20242 Comments

‘THEY SAY YOU CAN NEVER MAKE NEW OLD FRIENDS‘– Greener [ About Greener ] As teenagers, Helen, Annie and Laura were inseparable, bonding over family, boys and their dreams for the future. But when school ended, so did their friendship. Twenty-five years later, a snowstorm forces the three women to spend time together, leaving them…

#BookReview of #TheParisMuse by Louisa Treger | @louisatreger

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne16th April 20242 Comments

‘Living with him was like living at the centre of the universe. It was electrifying and humbling, blissful and destructive, all at the same time.’– The Paris Muse [ About The Paris Muse ] Paris, 1936. When Dora Maar, a talented French photographer, painter and poet, is introduced to Pablo Picasso, she is mesmerized by…

#BookReview of #SparksOfBrightMatter by Leeanne O’Donnell | @eriu_books

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne15th April 2024Leave a comment

‘The truth is, sometimes things slip away from you. The truth is…sometimes the dead walk all night‘– Sparks of Bright Matter [ About Sparks of Bright Matter ] When ambitious apprentice chemist and secret alchemist Peter Woulfe is tasked with caring for a mysterious illustrated book, the Mutus Liber, he quickly realises that the grimy…

#BookReview of #EmmaDisappeared by Andrew Hughes | @And_Hughes

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th April 2024Leave a comment

‘Everyone is talking about the disappearance of Emma Harte‘– Emma Disappeared [ About Emma Disappeared ] A high-achieving university graduate and young entrepreneur, she was last seen in the early hours of the morning on grainy CCTV footage in Dublin’s city centre before vanishing into thin air. While a national debate about women’s safety rages,…

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