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#BookReview of An Unlikely Visitor by Joanna Cannon

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st September 20265 Comments

[ About An Unlikely Visitor ] MARGARET THINKS HER TIME IS UP… BUT MAYBE HER TIME IS NOW? Things have been hard since her husband Derek died, and they never really got over the disappearance of their daughter, Jeanie, all those years ago. Despite everything, they built a lovely life together… it’s just starting to…

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#BookReview of The Newer World by Sebastian Barry

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne4th September 20262 Comments

[ About The Newer World ] I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things. . . were gone forever.Against a rapidly shifting landscape, Tennyson Bouguereau – freed man, devoted brother, nascent singer, conflicted soldier and wanted man – journey to find meaning and belonging. From the…

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#BookReview of Every Buried Secret by A.M. Fadden

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne3rd September 2026Leave a comment

[ About Every Buried Secret ] DI Sinead Zaf is tired of working twice as hard to be taken seriously… Frustrated by the toxic culture of Birmingham’s Serious Crime Unit and watching less capable colleagues rise through the ranks, she turns her attention to cold cases – hoping one forgotten investigation might finally prove her…

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#BookReview of The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne2nd September 20264 Comments

[ About The Calamity Club ] Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. Eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Ever since her beloved mother failed to come home last Christmas Eve, she’s been one of the ‘unadoptable’ girls at the town’s orphanage, where she fights each day to keep her wits sharp and her…

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#BookReview of Love Unlocked by Cecelia Ahern

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne26th August 20264 Comments

[ About Love Unlocked ] Melody has vowed never to fall in love again. Al is a hopeless romantic. So, when they quite literally bump into each other, there’s no reason sparks should fly. But the world seems a little upside down lately. A few weeks ago, Al ordered the removal of all the lovers’…

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#BookReview of Happy, thank you. More, please. by Kyla Cobbler

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th August 20263 Comments

[ About Happy, Thank You. More, Please.] When I was twenty-one, a woman introduced me to five magic words that changed my life: Happy, thank you. More, please.Kyla Cobbler’s path to self-love hasn’t run smoothly. From making questionable dating decisions, to using booze to quell her constant Irish state of mortification, to getting arrested for…

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#BookReview of Make Strange by Niamh Campbell

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st August 2026Leave a comment

[ About Make Strange ] It begins on an orange afternoon, cool but ruminant, close to Halloween. Sunny, only four years old, looks up from the tub of toys in the living room and asks, ‘Mama, do you remember when I died?’ Over the strange, strained year that follows, Sunny will refer repeatedly to her…

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#BookReview of Clara and Christina by Andrew Cunning

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne19th August 2026Leave a comment

[ About Clara and Christina ] Two women meet in an unassuming coffee shop in Belfast; they seem an unlikely pair. Clara is young, inquisitive, optimistic for what the meeting holds. Christina is older, in her seventies, still glamorous, still quick. She is working on her fifth novel but no one yet knows of its…

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#BookReview of Said The Dead by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne17th August 20262 Comments

[ About the Book ] In the city of Cork, a derelict Victorian mental hospital is being converted into modern apartments. One passerby has always flinched as she passes the place. Had her birth occurred in another decade, she too might have lived within those walls. Now, she notices a sign: FOR SALE. It is…

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#BookReview of Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th August 20262 Comments

[ About Our London Lives ] 1979. In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly, a teenage runaway, and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to drink it all away. Over the decades their lives follow different paths, interweaving…

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