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#BookReview | I Am Dust by Louise Beech | #IAmDust

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th April 20202 Comments

A haunted theatreA murdered actressThree cursed teenagersA secret that devastates them all– I Am Dust [ About the Book ] The Dean Wilson Theatre is believed to be haunted by a long-dead actress, singing her last song, waiting for her final cue, looking for her killer… Now Dust, the iconic musical, is returning after twenty…

#BookReview | And Then There Were None by #AgathaChristie

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne7th April 202013 Comments

Voted the clear winner in a global vote to find the world’s favourite Agatha Christie book for her 125th birthday in 2015– And Then There Were None [ About the Book ] 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut…

#BookReview | #TheSecretOfEvelineHouse by @SheilaForsey | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne3rd April 20204 Comments

‘A tale of tangled secrets and a search for the truth. The past cannot lie silent forever’ – The Secret of Eveline House [ About the Book ] It’s 1949 and playwright Violet Ward has returned from London with her husband Henry and young daughter Sylvia, to take up residence in Eveline House in County…

#BookReview | #MyPearShapedLife by Carmel Harrington |@HappyMrsH | @HCinIreland | @HarperFiction

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne2nd April 20202 Comments

‘You don’t have to be pearfect to be happy’– My Pear-Shaped Life [ About the Book ] Meet Greta. She’s funny. She’s flawed. She’s hiding so much behind her big smile she’s forgotten who she is. But Greta is about to discover that the key to being happy is…being you. Greta Gale has played the part of…

#BookReview | #TheFinalGame by Caimh McDonnell | @Caimh

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st April 20206 Comments

‘If you fancy a light-hearted romp through the streets of Dublin then hop on board!’ – The Final Game by Caimh McDonnell [ About the Book ] When Paul Mulchrone’s friend Dorothy dies, his world is thrown into disarray. First, there’s the grief. Second, there’s the fact that he has been forced into a competition,…

#BookReview | #Hamnet by Maggie O’ Farrell | @TinderPress

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne27th March 20209 Comments

‘TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.‘– Hamnet [ About the Book ] On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their…

#BookReview | #ADELE by Nicola Cassidy | @ladynicci |@PoolbegBooks | #BlogTour

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne25th March 20207 Comments

ADELEThe forgotten sister of Fred AstaireDancer, Icon, Star [ About the Book ] Adele is a tale of talent, glamour and fame at the height of the roaring 20s. 1973: Californian journalist Ellie Morgan sets out on a mission to research the life of Adele Astaire, famed 1920s dancer and comedienne, older sister to Fred Astaire.…

#BookReview | The Lost Lights of St Kilda by Elisabeth Gifford | @elisabeth04liz | @CorvusBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th March 20202 Comments

‘He would be back soon, I felt it, for our love was a living thing, growing and breathing as surely as all the birds in the air’– The Lost Lights of St Kilda [ About the Book ] 1927: When Fred Lawson takes a summer job on St Kilda, little does he realise that he…

#BookReview | #MexicoStreet by Simone Buchholz

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne19th March 20202 Comments

‘The German Number One Bestseller’– Mexico Street [ About the Book ] Night after night, cars are set alight across the German city of Hamburg, with no obvious pattern, no explanation and no suspect. Until, one night, on Mexico Street, a ghetto of high-rise blocks in the north of the city, a Fiat is torched.…

#BookReview | The Weight of Love by @HilaryFannin |@PenguinIEBooks | @DoubledayUK

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne13th March 20202 Comments

‘He sat up, pushed back the bedclothes, held her gaze, and she felt a bolt, a charge that made her want to sink to the floor. Here it is, she thought, here is love, and fear’– The Weight of Love [ About the Book ] London, 1995. Robin and Ruth meet in the staff room…

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