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#BookReview | #Canticle by Liz McSkeane | @EMcSkeane

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th October 2019Leave a comment

‘I did not ask for this commission, I do not want it and yet, here I am. I still do not understand what has persuaded me or whether, having agreed to carry it out, I have committed an act of wisdom or folly.’ – Fray Martín de Sepúlveda, Canticle [ About the Book ] Madrid,…

#BookReview | #CAGE by Lilja Sigurðardóttir | @lilja1972 | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th October 20192 Comments

‘A masterful conclusion to the award-winning, critically acclaimed Reykjavik Noir Trilogy, as drug smuggling, financial crime, political intrigues, love, murder and betrayal come together’ – CAGE [ About the Book ] The prison doors slam shut behind Agla, when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her. As a group…

#BookReview | #ThroughTheWall by Caroline Corcoran | @cgcorcoran | @AvonBooksUK

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne2nd October 20194 Comments

‘I can hear her through the wallShe has no idea what I did.No idea what I’m capable of…’ [ Harriet ] ‘I swear I can feel her.Biding her time.Waiting to rip my life apart…’ [ Lexie ] [ About the Book ] Lexie’s got the perfect life. And someone else wants it… Lexie loves her…

#BookReview | #MeatMarket by @junodawson

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st October 20194 Comments

‘Honest and raw, this is a timely exposé of the dark underbelly of the fashion industry’  – Meat Market [ About the Book ] Jana Novak’s history sounds like a classic model cliche: tall and gangly, she’s uncomfortable with her androgynous looks until she’s unexpectedly scouted and catapulted to superstardom. But the fashion industry is…

#BookReview | Nothing to Hide by James Oswald | @SirBenfro

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne27th September 20193 Comments

Trouble always seems to find her, and even if she has nothing to hide, perhaps she has everything to lose…. – A DC Constance Fairchild Novel [ About the Book ] Suspended from duty after her last case ended in the high-profile arrest of one of Britain’s wealthiest men, DC Constance Fairchild is trying to…

#BookReview | Help Me! by Marianne Power aka @TheHelpMeBlog

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne26th September 20195 Comments

‘Feel the Fear changed my life the first time I read it because I took action: I felt the fear and quit my job. But since then I hadn’t stepped out of my comfort zone – I’d hardly stepped out of bed. And then with Sunday’s hangover finally fading, while I re-read Feel the Fear…

#BookReview | The Incorrigible Optimists Club by Jean-Michel Guenassia

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th September 20194 Comments

‘A writer is being buried today. It’s like a final demonstration: an unexpected crowd – silent, respectful and anarchic – is blocking the streets and the boulevards around the Montparnasse cemetery……How absurd to pay homage to a man who was wrong about almost everything, was constantly misled, and who put his talents into defending the…

#Bookreview | #LiesLiesLies by @adeleparks | @HQstories

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne20th September 20194 Comments

‘Explores the darkest corners of a relationship in freefall in a mesmerising tale of marriage and secrets’ – Lies, Lies, Lies [ About Lies, Lies, Lies ] Daisy and Simon’s marriage is great, isn’t it? After years together, the arrival of longed-for daughter Millie sealed everything in place. A happy little family of three. And…

#BookReview | #Postscript by @Cecelia_Ahern | @HCinIreland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne18th September 201910 Comments

‘It’s been seven years since Holly Kennedy’s husband died – six since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new life…’– Postscript There was a seismic shift, the planets moved, there was a collective roar when it was announced that the very much longed for sequel to the…

#BookReview | Mr Godley’s Phantom by Mal Peet

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne17th September 2019Leave a comment

‘After the war, after he was out, Martin Heath did almost nothing for several months. He was still young but his dreams – nocturnal and diurnal – belonged to an older man, a man much damaged and long steeped in blood. Death operated the film projector inside his head’– Mr Godley’s Phantom [ About the…

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