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#BookReview of #TheItalianHoliday by Catherine Mangan | @CathManganBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne31st May 2024Leave a comment

‘Escape to Italy and fall in love with this perfect summer read…’– The Italian Holiday [ About The Italian Holiday] Floundering junior travel writer Katie has just been given the opportunity of her career. Her boss can’t make her trip to the idyllic but little-known Italian island of Ponza, and Katie must step into her…

#BookReview of #TheGratefulWater by Juliana Adelman | @NewIslandBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th May 2024Leave a comment

‘A detective story that swelters and smells of the oppressively hot Dublin summer 1866, by a debut fiction author steeped in the history of the city’– The Grateful Water (Publisher Quote) [ About The Grateful Water ] When a young butcher spots a strange shape on the banks of the River Liffey in the hot…

#Extract from #AGoodLife by Virginie Grimaldi |@GinieGrimaldi | @EuropaEdUK

ExtractBy Mairéad Hearne28th May 20243 Comments

A Good Life by Virginie Grimaldi will publish June 6th with Europa Editions UK. Translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle, it is described as ‘an emotional and uplifting novel from the French Marian Keyes’. Europa Editions UK have provided me with an extract today which will give you all a sneak peek into the…

#BookReview of #Habitat by @catriona_shine| @LilliputPress

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th May 20242 Comments

[ About Habitat ] Habitat follows seven neighbours over the course of a surreal and life-changing week as their mid-century apartment building in Oslo begins to inexplicably break down around them. Connected by familial ties, long acquaintance, simmering feuds and longing glimpses, the residents of the building are bound to one another in more ways than…

#BookReview of #GhostMountain by Rónán Hession |@MumblinDeafRo | @Ofmooseandmen

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st May 20241 Comment

‘Mountains are at once unmistakably present yet never truly fathomable.‘– Ghost Mountain [ About Ghost Mountain ] Ghost Mountain, is a simple fable-like novel about a mountain that appears suddenly, and the way in which its manifestation ripples through the lives of characters in the surrounding community. It looks at the uncertain fragile sense of…

#Extract from Beatrice’s Fate by Camilla Galbiati

ExtractBy Mairéad Hearne20th May 2024Leave a comment

Beatrice’s Fate is the debut novel by Sligo based author, Camilla Galbiati, which published April 26th and is described as ‘a gripping historical romance set in 17th century Italy’. I am delighted to share an extract with you all today so I do hope you enjoy. [ About Beatrice’s Fate ] 1614, Italy. Nine-year-old Beatrice Locatelli is…

#BookReview of #TheHoneymoonAffair by @sheilaoflanagan

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne17th May 20242 Comments

‘The irresistible, utterly satisfying new contemporary novel from beloved bestseller, Sheila O’Flanagan’– The Honeymoon Affair [ About The Honeymoon Affair ] Izzy is in the Caribbean on the honeymoon-that-isn’t after her fiancé broke her heart. She’s not looking for someone new. But when she meets Charles Miller, a successful writer holidaying alone, the electricity is…

#BookReview of #YouAreHere by David Nicholls

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne15th May 20242 Comments

‘A new love story by beloved bestseller David Nicholls, You Are Here is a novel of first encounters, second chances and finding the way home.‘ [ About You Are Here ] Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way Marnie is stuck.Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a…

#Spotlight on #ASongOfSilence by @Steve_N_Lee | #PublicationDay

Book SpotlightBy Mairéad Hearne14th May 2024Leave a comment

Discover what it means to be human. Discover A Song of Silence. A Song of Silence by Steve N. Lee is released today, May 14th and is described as ‘a gripping Holocaust novel inspired by a heartbreaking true story‘. In celebration of publication day I am shining a spotlight here today with details about the…

#Bookreview of #TheDyingTime by Anthony Carragher

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th May 2024Leave a comment

‘Follows a successful architect whose carefully constructed life is turned on its head when a malevolent stranger arrives unexpectedly at her lighthouse home’– The Dying Time [ About The Dying Time ] Architect Kate O’Connor appears to have it all. A lighthouse home, a successful politician husband and an eight-year-old daughter. Yet everything is not…

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