‘From an exciting new voice in Irish fiction, a powerful novel set on an Irish clifftop‘– Though the Bodies Fall (Publisher Quote) [ About Though the Bodies Fall ] Micheál Burns lives alone in his family’s bungalow at the end of Kerry Head in Ireland. It is a picturesque place, but the cliffs have a…
‘Intermezzo is a story of brothers and lovers, of familial and romantic intimacies, of relationships that don’t quite fit the conventional structures’Alex Bowler, Publisher (Faber) [ About Intermezzo ] Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties…
‘A dazzling, decades-sweeping story about love, bravery and what it means to live a significant life.‘– Frankie (Publisher Quote) [ About Frankie ] Always on the periphery, looking on, young Frankie Howe was never quite sure enough of herself to take centre stage – after all, life had already judged her harshly. Now old, Frankie finds…
The Forest of Lost Souls by Dean Koontz, will publish 24th September with Thomas & Mercer and is described as ‘a novel about good versus evil, the enduring nature of myth, and the power of love’. It is a pleasure to be joining the blog tour today with an extract from the opening chapters so I…
‘The unifying dynamic in this compendium is the shared perspective of the world as viewed from my neighbourhood’– Cónal Creedon, Spaghetti Bowl [ About Spaghetti Bowl ] The inspiration for each individual piece is very much a stand-alone exploration, [with some translated into Chinese and German]. Yet the unifying dynamic in this compendium is Creedon’s…
‘Introducing Sergeant Mike Adam and DS Sue Willmott, Beachbrook’s best investigators’– After The Storm [ About After The Storm ] TWO CHILDREN WENT INTO THE SEA. When local couple Andrew and Sophie take their daughter and her friend to the beach on a stormy day, they are momentarily distracted leading both children to get washed…
‘Until now, I have shared the specifics of that first meeting between us with no one. If I let them, people would pore over every detail, handle each scrap. Shop-soiling with their touch. Strangers can be inclined to pry…once the link is made, they swamp me with questions. Usually, I say she was Arthur’s wife…
How do you feel about embracing Ireland’s native tongue? At odds after a tricky relationship at school? Maybe you’ve given up, or don’t know where to start? Well, is fada an bóthar nach mbíonn casadh ann – long is the road that has no turn and, in this book, the road is about to turn.…
‘Japan is a country of islands, strung like a necklace around the Asian mainland…‘ [ About The Shortest History of Japan ] Ever since US Commodore Matthew Perry forced Japan to open its borders in 1853, the culture of this remarkable and distant archipelago has enriched western life. At the same time the country has…
‘It all began the day he found out that his sister was his mother’– The Inheritance [ About The Inheritance ] It’s 1986 and 29-year-old Marlo O’Sullivan of London-Irish stock has just found out that his sister is his mother. To steady his life, he moves to Glengarriff, to a cottage he has inherited, in…