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…