‘Stefan Gillespie’s secret mission takes him to Rome, where evil stalks the Eternal City‘– The City of God [ About The City of God ] Italy, 1943. Irish detective Stefan Gillespie leaves the chaos of Nazi-occupied Rome for neutral Switzerland on a mission his government knows nothing about. Waiting for a late-night connection in Zurich he…
‘Was it possible there’d been a house in this place? He thought of the old folksong ‘The May Morning Dew’ and the line about the singer’s childhood home being but a stone on a stone. Here there wasn’t even a stone on a stone, just mud, grass and bitter wind.’– The Desire Line [ About…
‘THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN‘– THE LAST DEVIL TO DIE [ About The Last Devil To Die ] Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. As the…
‘Meet Jamie and his community on the west coast of Ireland, in the most uplifting and tender book of the year‘– How to Build a Boat [ About How to Build a Boat ] Jamie O’Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many…
Immortalised to Death by Lyn Squire will be published on September 26th with Level Best Books. It is the first instalment of the Dunston Burnett Trilogy, which delves into the life and demise of iconic Victorian writer, Charles Dickens and is described as ‘a thrilling tale of secrets hidden in the literary legend’s half-finished manuscript‘.…
‘An exploration of grief and recovery’– This is My Sea [ About This is My Sea ] Over the course of seven difficult years Miriam Mulcahy lost her mother, father and sister, each grief threatening to drown her. But instead of going under she discovered the lessons of the sea, letting the water teach her…
Blood Relations by J. Woollcott was just published as an Ebook August 12th with Level Best Books and is the second novel featuring DS Ryan McBride, following on from A Nice Place to Die I am delighted to able to share an extract with you all today from Blood Relations, with details about the book…
‘Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother’s loneliness had been.‘– The Wren, The Wren [ About The Wren, The Wren ] Nell – funny, brave and so much loved – is a young…
‘We’re fifteen and it’s the summer of our lives so Kinlough is gathering itself up into the moment with us – the whole town’s pure responsive to our energies‘– KALA [ About KALA ] In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland’s west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in…
The Time Between Space by Charlie Laidlaw was republished June 24th with Ringwood Publishing and is described as ‘an uplifting book filled with humour and poignancy, and reminds us that, while our pasts make us who we are, our memories are what really shape us – real or imagined .Above all, it offers the metaphor…