‘My mother was a cantankerous wagon. She was a pig-headed woman who never listened to a word of advice. She held everyone around her to impossibly high standards. She held herself to impossibly high standards. She was her own worst enemy, and mine. She disagreed with every word I said. She crossed me at every…
‘Some stories seem to tell themselves and other stories wish to remain untold. It is uncertain which this is.’– The Bureau [ About The Bureau ] Lorraine would say afterwards that she was smitten straight off with Paddy Farrell. You could tell that he was occupying the room in a different way, he found the…
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CITY GIRL SERIES– City Girls Forever [ About City Girls Forever ] The City Girls are back! And as City Girl, Devlin Delaney’s iconic gym and spa, prepares to mark a big anniversary, Devlin and her best friends Caroline and Maggie are looking forward to a fabulous party where they can all put their…
‘A heartfelt picture book about celebrating individuality.‘– The One and Only You [ About The One and Only You ] Take an incredible trip across space and time to discover just how special YOU are. In this whole wide world of people and animals,and plants and flowers,and oceans and lakes,and so, so many things,there is…
‘When the path ahead seems unclear, sometimes all you need is a week to remember what truly matters’ – A Week to Remember [ About A Week to Remember ] Three strangers, the Camino, one week to change everything. Paula has an anxiety attack at her 60th birthday party and realises that her life must…
Irish Times: Books to Look Out for in 2025– I Hear You [ About I Hear You ] This collection of stories, written especially for BBC Radio 4, includes a ten-part sequence: ‘The Circus’, set around Cliftonville Circus, where five roads meet in North Belfast. It’s five minutes from the nationalist Troubles flashpoint of Ardoyne,…
**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**‘Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below‘– Orbital [ About Orbital ] A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling…
‘The Truth Never Stays Buried’– The Seventh Body [ About The Seventh Body ] When six human bodies are discovered, building work on a derelict site in Cork grinds to a halt. And then a seventh is discovered. Although the first six are men who died centuries ago, the seventh body is different – female,…
I am absolutely thrilled to be involved with the longlist celebrations for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, the world’s largest and most prestigious literary prize for young writers, with authors hailing from across the world including the UK, Palestine, India, the Netherlands, and Ireland. I am sharing my review today of one of the…
A gripping new World War 2 thriller from the bestselling authorA Death in Berlin [ About A Death in Berlin ] BERLIN. MAY 1940. AS HITLER PREPARES TO INVADE WESTERN EUROPE, THERE IS BLOODSHED CLOSER TO HOME CI Horst Schenke is an investigator with the Kripo unit. Powerless against the consequences of the war, he…