‘Saoirse was the name that revealed itself. Freedom.’The Queen of Dirt Island [ About The Queen of Dirt Island ] ‘The Aylward women are mad about each other, but you wouldn’t always think it. You’d have to know them to know – in spite of what the neighbours might say about raised voices and dramatic…
‘They’d both known something was wrong straightaway. Really super wrong. As if the whole party-chaos-house-smashed-Katie-grounded-forever thing wasn’t bad enough’– Something Terrible Happened Last Night [ About Something Terrible Happened Last Night ] It’s Katie’s 17th birthday – the dancefloor is packed, the drink is flowing and Rave-fess, the Raven’s Hill School confession site, is alight…
‘From the team behind the award-winning Illegal comes an important and compelling graphic novel about the real and devastating effects of climate change’ [ About GLOBAL ] Yuki lives in an increasingly deserted Inuit township in Nova Scotia. One day she sets out into the wilderness of the Arctic tundra planning to photograph a rare…
‘A girl is a burden. A girl is a curse.’– The Daughters Of Madurai [ About The Daughters of Madurai ] Madurai, 1992. A young mother in a poor family, Janani is told she is useless if she can’t produce a son – or worse, bears daughters they can’t afford. They let her keep her first…
‘A strikingly-original coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of 1980s Michigan.‘– The Polite Act of Drowning [ About The Polite Act of Drowning ] Michigan, 1985. The drowning of a teenage girl causes ripples in the small town of Kettle Lake, though for most the waters settle quickly. For sixteen-year-old Joanne Kennedy, however, the tragedy…
Spurned by a KingRaised by BearsBlessed by a GoddessAtalanta [ About Atalanta ] When a daughter is born to the King of Arcadia, she brings only disappointment. Left exposed on a mountainside, the defenceless infant Atalanta is left to the mercy of a passing mother bear and raised alongside the cubs under the protective eye…
I woke up this morning with a awful aching headI woke up this morning with a awful aching headMy new man had left me, just a room and a empty bedEmpty Bed Blues by Bessie Smith (From the book – it inspired the title) [ About Empty Bed Blues ] When Kate Holohan’s husband dies…
‘ ‘Before He Kills Again is partly set in Cork city, exploring themes like sexual and gender-based violence and how misogyny can be spread through social media. It’s also partly set in West Cork. This is mainly because Collins is from there and I wanted to explore the themes of home and love in the…
‘On Glenbeg Farm, it was a sunny morning like any other.Only the distressed bark of beloved collie Samson hinted that all was not well’– There’s Something I have to Tell You [ About There’s Something I Have To Tell You ] When the bodies of wealthy matriarch Ursula Kennedy and her farmer husband Jimmy are…
Love, lies and taboo liaisons, a coming-of-age story. Set against the backdrop of a country at war.– American Bombshell [ About American Bombshell ] Incarcerated in an abusive orphanage by an unstable and vengeful mother, seventeen-year-old Rosie Haskell is released in February 1944 to survive in an adult world. She finds a job at a wartime…