‘That’s it, it’s all she gets. Fragments. Discarded scenes she rescues from the cutting-room floor that she replays, knows by heart’– The Good Mistress [ About The Good Mistress ] The affair is over – so what does she have to lose? Juliet never planned to be the other woman, but Rory was the only…
I’ve been on holidays for the last couple of weeks so I am gently (very slowly) dipping my toes back into blogging. Today I really wanted to mention a brilliant blog post that went live when I was away. It features an international collaboration of approximately twenty bloggers that I was only too delighted to…
‘Mimi Truang did not yet know that her baby was gone. She sat back and closed her eyes, coffee in hand.’– My Other Heart [ About My Other Heart ] May 1998: Mimi Traung and her baby daughter Ngan wait restlessly at the gates of Philadelphia airport. There is still a day’s travelling left before…
‘Your child has been kidnapped.You’re live on television.’– Dead Line [ About Dead Line ] Going live in 10, 9, 8 . . .Today is a huge day for TV reporter Rose’s career. A live interview with one of the most powerful men in the country, on one of the nation’s biggest TV shows.7, 6,…
‘She gazed at the red line that ran along the circumference of the woman’s neck, the laceration open slightly like a small crevice in the snow. The woman’s face was paler than her short blonde hair, her blue eyes frozen in a stare as if caught in a photograph. They stared away and behind Darcy…
Into the woods.Count to ten.Only one of us comes home again.– The Counting Game [ About The Counting Game ] 1995, Ireland. Panic grips the village of Drumsuin when a teenage girl goes missing in the nearby forest. Saoirse is not the first girl to disappear in those woods. And when it’s revealed she was…
One man at the heart of American power must undertake a crucial wartime spy mission that will take him into enemy territory before he even leaves US soil.– Kane [ About Kane ] Washington DC, 1941. Quincy Kane, hero of the Boston Police Department and scourge of organised crime, is now a Secret Service agent.…
‘Connie Maguire jolts awake, gasping for air. She scans the bedroom. The wallpaper, mould and a list on the door – rules for this guesthouse on Dublin’s Gardiner Street…’– The (Wonderful) Life of Connie Maguire [ About The (Wonderful) Life of Connie Maguire ] Connie Maguire has always lived in the shadows. Battling low self-esteem,…
Rewind – A Collection by Indie Authors Ireland was published June 7th and is described as ‘an eclectic collection of poetry, fiction and anecdotes’. Indie Authors Ireland was originally set up as a Facebook group founded by Claire O’Connor in August 2023. This wonderful coming together of like-minded authors grew from strength to strength and…
‘You have to wonder what goes through the mind of a man like Micah Mortimer’– Redhead by the Side of the Road [ About Redhead by the Side of the Road ] Micah Mortimer isn’t the most polished person you’ll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he…