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#BookReview | Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler | @dylanthomprize #SUDTP20 |@yazzarf #BlogTour|#StubbornArchivist | @midaspr

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne 5th March 2020 Leave a comment

Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize with my review of longlisted nominee Yara Rodrigues Fowler and her debut novel Stubborn Archivist I am thrilled to be involved with the blog tour for the prestigious literary award, The International Dylan Thomas Prize, with my review of one of the long-listed titles, Stubborn Archivist…

#BookReview | Grace is Gone by Emily Elgar

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne 4th March 2020 3 Comments

She has days to live…You have one chance to find her…– Grace is Gone [ About the Book ] Meg and her daughter Grace are the most beloved family in Ashford, the lynchpin that holds the community together. So when Meg is found brutally murdered and her daughter missing, the town is rocked by the…

#BookReview | None the Wiser by @RachelAmphlett | #NoneTheWiser

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne 2nd March 2020 4 Comments

What if some secrets were meant to stay buried?– None the Wiser [ About the Book ] When a parish priest is brutally murdered in cold blood, a rural community is left in shock – and fear. New to the Vale of the White Horse, Detective Sergeant Mark Turpin discovers the murder bears the hallmark…

#BookReview | The Book of Echoes by @RosannaAmaka @DoubledayUK | #TheBookOfEchoes

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne 28th February 2020 Leave a comment

‘A story of love, hope and resilience rippling through the generations..’– The Book of Echoes [ About the Book ] Narrated by the soul of an African slave woman, who giving thanks at a shrine in Africa over two hundred years ago, tosses her infant son to safety moments before she is hauled away by slavers.…

#BookReview | The Paper Bracelet by @EnglishRachael | @HachetteIre | #ThePaperBracelet

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne 27th February 2020 13 Comments

‘Every baby’s bracelet held a mother’s secret…’– The Paper Bracelet [ About the Book ] For almost fifty years, Katie has kept a box of secrets. It dates from her time working as a nurse in a west of Ireland mother and baby home, and contains a notebook with details of the babies and young…

#BookReview | #SaturdaysAtNoon by @Rache1Marks |#Blogtour with @MichaelJBooks |

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne 13th February 2020 5 Comments

‘One circle of strangersTwo people who’d rather be anywhere elseThree lives about to change for ever‘– Saturdays at Noon [ About the Book ] Emily just wants to keep the world away.She doesn’t want anyone to know all the ways her life is messed up.Going to anger management every Saturday, talking to strangers, was not…

#BookReview | #PerfectKill by @Helen_Fields | #BlogTour with @AvonBooksUK

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne 12th February 2020 2 Comments

‘He had never heard himself scream before. It was terrifying’– Perfect Kill [ About the Book ] Alone, trapped in the darkness and with no way out, Bart Campbell knows that his chances of being found alive are slim. Drugged and kidnapped, the realisation soon dawns that he’s been locked inside a shipping container far…

#BookReview | #Beast by Matt Wesolowski | @OrendaBooks @ConcreteKraken

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne 7th February 2020 4 Comments

A frozen girlA haunted townA deadly challengeSix StoriesWhich one is true?– Beast [ About the Book ] In the wake of the ‘Beast from the East’ cold snap that ravaged the UK in 2018, a grisly discovery was made in a ruin on the Northumbrian coast. Twenty-four-year-old vlogger, Elizabeth Barton, had been barricaded inside what…

#BookReview | The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock by @JaneRileyAuthor | #OliverClock | @AmazonPub |@ed_pr | #BlogTour

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne 5th February 2020 6 Comments

‘His life is perfectly regimented.Is there really any room for something as unpredictable as love?‘– The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock [ About the Book ] Oliver Clock has everything arranged just so. A steady job running the family funeral parlour. A fridge stocked with ready meals. A drawer full of colour-coded socks. A plan…

#BookReview | #TellMeYourSecret by Dorothy Koomson

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne 31st January 2020 5 Comments

Pieta has a secretJody has a secretWill telling their secrets save or sacrifice each other…– Tell Me Your Secret [ About the Book ] Pieta has a secret.Ten years ago, Pieta was kidnapped by a man calling himself The Blindfolder who said he wouldn’t kill her if she kept her eyes closed for 48 hours.…

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