For Christmas I received this fun gift of the 100 Books Scratch Off Bucket List poster. I immediately scratched off any book I had read over the years but soon realised that they were so many I had yet to discover. I have the fabulous Borrowbox app (via Cork City Library) on my phone, which…
‘My mother always emphasised the importance of smartness, even if you were going to your grave.’– Sons of Great Men [ About Sons of Great Men ] Can you bond with someone who’s on borrowed time? Victor’s mum Jayne is stuck between life and death in a London hospital. Visiting from the Isle of Wight,…
‘When reality itself becomes the conspiracy . . .’ EL by Thaddeus Ó Buachalla was first published in Irish by Coiscéim in 2022. It won an Oireachtas Literary Award and was awarded Irish Language Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards. Now translated from Irish by the author and just published with Mercier Press,…
The must-read, Sunday Times bestselling First World War love story [ About In Memoriam ] It’s 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in an idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. At seventeen, they’re too young to enlist, and anyway,…
Shibby Magee by Carrie Kabak published January 28th and is described as ‘a character-driven Irish tragicomedy threaded with wit, heartbreak, and bittersweet redemption‘. Today Carrie is sharing an extract with us, so I do hope you enjoy! Purchase Link ~ Shibby Magee [ About Shibby Magee ] Echoing the tones of the TV series Fleabag, Shibby Magee is…
‘If Lily Barrett had ever imagined herself returning to this place, it wouldn’t have been broke, in disguise or with an attention-attracting happy-head in tow’ [ About Love & Other Liabilities ] When a financial crisis sends emotionally-hardened accountant Lily Barrett to the West Cork island of Inish Ruin, to put her deceased Nana’s beloved…
Nothing – not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore – can undo the heat’s hold on the city.– Stowaways [ About Stowaways ] Maybe we love people because they won’t let us know them. A summer’s evening in Manhattan. Nothing – not cold drinks, not showers,…
‘Awakening desire in the hearts of musicians for almost two hundred years, she is built of birdsong and promises, crafted from wood and bone.’ [ About The Violin Maker’s Secret ] On any given day, there are thousands of items slowly gathering dust in the Lost and Found of Heathrow Airport. Unknown to anyone, hidden…
‘The Hogarth Shakespeare project by Penguin Random House launched in 2015 with Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time (The Winter’s Tale). 2016 launched Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name (The Merchant of Venice), Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl (The Taming of the Shrew), and Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed (The Tempest). Forthcoming: Tracy Chevalier (Othello),Gillian Flynn (Hamlet), Jo Nesbo (Macbeth), and Edward St. Aubyn (King Lear).‘…
When everyone can see insideA killer must hide in plain sight– In Glass Houses [ About In Glass Houses ] Twenty years ago, Eddie’s career as a journalist was destroyed by the Juliet Fox case. Juliet was young and beautiful, born into the privileged world of the Manhattan elite. Pulled into their orbit by her…