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#BookReview | #TheNothingMan by Catherine Ryan Howard

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th October 20202 Comments

She can’t stop writing until she finds the killer.He can’t stop reading because the killer is him.– The Nothing Man [ About the Book ] I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man. Now, I am the woman who is going to catch him. You’ve just read the opening pages of The Nothing Man, the true…

#BookReview | #WhateverItTakes by @TadhgCoakley | @corkcitylibrary | #OneCityOneBook | @MercierBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne16th September 20205 Comments

‘He is determined to win,whatever the cost,whatever it takes’ [About the Book ] Set in Cork city, Detective Garda Collins is at war with the leading local criminal, Dominic Molloy. Unwilling to accept the human degradation caused by Molloy’s drugs, violence and prostitution. He has made up his mind to bring Molloy down, but just…

Kinsale Literary Festival #WordsByWater | #Cork |@WordsByWater | #Spotlight

SpotlightBy Mairéad Hearne30th September 20194 Comments

Let the words wash over you at Kinsale’s Words by Water Literary Festival Now in it’s third year, the Kinsale Literary Festival brings fiction, poetry, book discussions and much more to Kinsale, Co. Cork every October. Kinsale is a town that is world renowned for it’s food culture but now also for this incredible festival…

#BookReview | #REWIND by Catherine Ryan Howard | @cathryanhoward | @CorvusBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th September 20194 Comments

‘A moment’s delay.Then a frenzy of motion.The woman’s eyes open. Her body rises, head and shoulders lifting from the pillows, legs rising beneath the sheets. She opens her mouth as if to scream…’– REWIND [ About the Book ] PLAYAndrew, the manager of Shanamore Holiday Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in…

#IConfess by Alex Barclay | #CoverReveal & #Extract | @alexbarcs | @HCinIreland

Cover Reveal, ExtractBy Mairéad Hearne26th July 20197 Comments

‘They won’t all live to tell the tale’ – I Confess I have such an exciting post to share with you all today. The wonderful Alex Barclay has a new book coming out on the 22nd August 2019 with Harper Collins, I Confess, and I have the honour of hosting an EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL and….…

Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry | @canongatebooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd July 20197 Comments

‘Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond sit on a bench just a few yards west of the hatch. They are in their low fifties. The years are rolling out like the tide now. There is old weather on their faces, on the hard lines of their jaws, on their chaotic mouths. But they retain – just…

#BookReview | #DarkestTruth by @catherinekirwan

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne5th March 2019Leave a comment

He will do anything to protect his secrets.She will stop at nothing to expose the truth.Because these are powerful people she is trying to expose.And they’re willing to do anything to keep the truth hidden……. Darkest Truth is a book I read a few weeks back but personal circumstances (mid-term break followed by being a…

#BookReview | A River in the Trees | Jacqueline O’ Mahony

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th February 20192 Comments

Two womenTwo storiesOne hundred years of secrets A River in the Trees is the debut novel from London-based, but Cork-born writer, Jacqueline O’ Mahony and was published by riverrun (an imprint of Quercus Books) A dual time story, it is described as a novel ‘about families, secrets and the impossibility of coming home.’ Being a…

#BookReview #AKeeper by Graham Norton

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th November 20188 Comments

A Keeper The truth drifts out to sea, riding the waves out of sight. And then the tide turns. A Keeper is the second novel from the best loved broadcaster Graham Norton. Following on from his debut novel Holding, which was a commercial and critical success, Graham Norton set his mind to writing book two.…

#BookReview The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by @HazelGaynor @HCinIreland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th September 20183 Comments

Today I have my review of The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter, the latest historical novel by Hazel Gaynor. Just published with Harper Collins it is a novel inspired by the extraordinary story of Grace Darling.

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