Skip to content
mairead@swirlandthread.com
Search:
Search
Facebook page opens in new windowTwitter page opens in new window
Swirl and Thread
I read…..therefore I am..
  • Home
  • About Me
  • Book Review
  • Blog Tour
  • Guest Post
  • Q & A
  • Review Policy
  • Contact Me
  • Privacy Policy
  • Home
  • About Me
  • Book Review
  • Blog Tour
  • Guest Post
  • Q & A
  • Review Policy
  • Contact Me
  • Privacy Policy

Tag Archives: book review

You are here:
  1. Home
  2. Entries tagged with "book review"

#BookReview of #ALessonInMalice by @catherinekirwan @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th July 2023Leave a comment

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CRUEL DEEDS– A Lesson in Malice [ About A Lesson in Malice ] She said yes to a dinner invitation. Now she’s a murder suspect … Returning to her alma mater and memories of her youth is the last thing Finn Fitzpatrick wants to do right now. But when a former…

#BookReview of #TheRachelIncident by Caroline O’ Donoghue

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne3rd July 20232 Comments

“I saw James as extremely advanced, a person who had interrogated all sides of his soul. He was too emotionally intelligent to get stuck in the doldrums of what music or behaviour seemed gay or straight. In that moment, he wasn’t just a person to me. He was the future of people.”– The Rachel Incident…

#BookReview of #TheMoonGate by @AmandaGeard

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th June 20234 Comments

‘A faded photograph. An abandoned house. A wartime secret . . .‘ [ About The Moon Gate ] 1939: On the eve of war, young English heiress Grace Grey travels from London to the wilderness of Tasmania. Coaxed out of her shell by the attentions of her Irish neighbour, Daniel – Grace finally learns to live.…

#BookReview of #ForgottenOnSunday by @valerieperrin_ | @EuropaEdUK

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th June 2023Leave a comment

‘From the million copy bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers‘– Forgotten On Sunday [ About Forgotten on Sunday ] Justine is 21 years old and has lived with her grandparents and cousin Jules since the death of her parents. She works as a carer at a retirement home and spends her days listening to her…

#BookReview of #ThePaperMan by Billy O’ Callaghan @billythescribe

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne26th June 20234 Comments

‘An unforgettable and sweeping interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences’ – The Paper Man, Publisher Quote [ About The Paper Man ] 1980s Cork. Jack Shine discovers a shoe box full of love letters in his mother’s belongings. Rebekah came to Cork alone as a young Jewish refugee from…

#BookReview of #TheBeeSting by Paul Murray

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd June 2023Leave a comment

‘It wasn’t Dad’s fault. There had been a crash.’– The Bee Sting [ About The Bee Sting ] The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under – but rather than face the music, he’s spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife…

#BookReview of #NoOneSawaThing by Andrea Mara @AndreaMaraBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne20th June 20236 Comments

‘Two children get on the train. Only one gets off…‘– No One Saw a Thing [ About No One Saw a Thing ] No one saw it happen.You stand on a crowded tube platform in London. Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the doors…

#BookReview of #TheLastLifeboat by @HazelGaynor | @HCinIreland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th May 20236 Comments

‘Captures the little-known story of the evacuees sent away by sea during WW2’– The Last Lifeboat [ About The Last Lifeboat ] Liverpool 1940. Alice King stands on the deck of SS Carlisle, waiting to escort a group of children to Canada as overseas evacuees. She is finally doing her bit for the war. In…

#BookReview of #WatchingFromTheWings by Christine Webber | @1chriswebber

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne29th May 2023Leave a comment

[ About Watching From The Wings ] What happens when the fairytale you thought you wanted at twenty-two, feels like a prison forty years later? Watching From the Wings is a heartwarming story of devotion, friendship, joy and passion, but also one involving disappointment, duplicity and betrayal. We all have our own journey of love. Katharine’s…

#BookReview of #FallingAnimals by Sheila Armstrong | @Sheela_no_gig | @BloomsburyBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne25th May 20234 Comments

‘The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the last day of his life‘– Falling Animals [ About Falling Animals ] On an isolated beach set against a lonely, windswept coastline, a pale figure sits serenely against a sand dune staring out to sea. His hands…

←12345…
678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152535455565758596061626364656667686970717273747576777879808182838485
86→
Copyright Swirl & Thread 2016
Go to Top