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Monthly Archives: May 2020

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#BookReview | The Mystery of Henri Pick by David Foenkinos | @PushkinPress

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th May 202010 Comments

‘The delightful first title in a new collaboration between Pushkin Press and Channel 4’s Walter Presents‘– The Mystery of Henri Pick [ About the Book ] In the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Visiting while on holiday, young editor…

#BlogTour | #Spotlight on #TheBeautyChorus by @katelordbrown | @midaspr

Blog Tour, SpotlightBy Mairéad Hearne13th May 2020Leave a comment

‘166 women signed up to fly Spitfires and bombers from factories to airfields across England. It was an adventure that would cost many their lives.‘ Today it is a pleasure to shine a spotlight on The Beauty Chorus by Kate Lord Brown which was released in digital format April 30th. It is described as ‘an…

#BookReview | #SeasonOfSecondChances by Aimee Alexander @denisedeegan

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th May 20205 Comments

‘When leaving is just the beginning… ‘Season of Second Chances [ About the Book ] Grace Sullivan flees Dublin with her two teenage children, returning to the sleepy West Cork village where she grew up. No one in Killrowan knows what Grace is running from – or that she’s even running. She’d like to keep it…

#BookReview | #WeBeginAtTheEnd by @WhittyAuthor

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th May 202010 Comments

‘This was her path to perdition.A girl on her way to right a lifetime of wrongs.’We Begin At The End [ About the Book ] ‘YOU CAN’T SAVE SOMEONE THAT DOESN’T WANT TO BE SAVED . . .’ Thirty years ago, Vincent King became a killer. Now, he’s been released from prison and is back…

#BookReview | #BuryThemDeep by James Oswald | @SirBenfro

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne7th May 2020Leave a comment

‘She drinks as deep as she can, each swallow a little less painful than the last. Too late, she understands there is something in the water to take away the pain. Something to lull her to sleep. No refuge there from the demons that haunt her.’– Bury Them Deep [ About the Book ] When…

#BookReview #NormalPeople by Sally Rooney

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th May 202015 Comments

‘The literary phenomenon of the decade.’ – Guardian– Normal People [ About the Book ] Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts…

#BookReview | Only You by @KateEberlen |#ReadOnlyYou

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne5th May 20204 Comments

‘One person is all it takes to change a lifetime’– Only You [ About the Book ] PresentLetty and Alf are the only English speakers at an Italian class in Rome, where they discover the language that really connects them is dance: Letty’s first love was ballet, while Alf was a junior ballroom champion. They…

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