‘Bestselling and award-winning Irish author, Nuala O’Connor, returns with the intimate and thrilling portrayal of the life of 18th-century Irishwoman, Anne Bonny‘– Seaborne [ About Seaborne ] 1703, Kinsale, County Cork. Anne Coleman is the illegitimate child of a local lawyer and his maid; disguised as ‘Anthony’ to protect reputations, the mask suits Anne just…
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…
‘Jim styles me his sleepy-eyed Nora. His squirrel girl from the pages of Ibsen. I am pirate queen and cattle raider. I’m his blessed little blackguard. I am, he says, his auburn marauder. I’m his honourable barnacle goose…. “Nora,” Jim says, “you are story.”’– NORA [ About the Book ] When Nora Barnacle, a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn’s Hotel, meets…