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#BookReview of #TheOldEnemy by Henry Porter | #Blogtour with @midaspr | @QuercusBooks | @HenryCPorter

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne13th April 20213 Comments

 ‘An international spy thriller set between the Baltic States, the US and the UK starring ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson’– The Old Enemy [ About the Book ] Ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson has been tasked with secretly guarding a gifted young woman, Zoe Freemantle. He is just beginning to tire of the job when he is…

#BookReview of #WatchHerFall by @mserinkelly | #BlogTour with @HodderBooks

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th April 20213 Comments

‘Set in the cut-throat world of an elite London ballet company, where ambition, secrecy and rivalry are rife’– Watch Her Fall [ About the Book ] Swan Lake is divided into the black acts and the white acts. The Prince is on stage for most of the ballet, but it’s the swans audiences flock to…

#BookReview of #Boy11963 by John Cameron (with Kathryn Rogers) | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne8th April 20219 Comments

‘Boy 11963 is a memoir for our times. A unique story of survival against all odds’ Ciara Considine, Hachette Ireland [ About the Book ] At only five months old, John Cameron was abandoned in a Dublin orphanage, and fostered out as a child labourer byage three. In 1944 when he turned eight, he was…

#BookReview of #Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone | @C_L_Johnstone | @BoroughPress

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th April 2021Leave a comment

‘The most dangerous stories are the ones we tell ourselves’– Mirrorland [ About the Book ] No. 36 Westeryk Road: an imposing flat-stone house on the outskirts of Edinburgh. A place of curving shadows and crumbling grandeur. But it’s what lies under the house that is extraordinary – Mirrorland. A vivid make-believe world that twin…

#BookReview of #TheThinPlace by C.D. Major

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st April 20214 Comments

‘She has to know the truth about Overtoun Estate, but there is a reason it has stayed buried for so long.‘– The Thin Place [ About the Book ] When journalist Ava Brent decides to investigate the dark mystery of Overtoun Estate—a ‘thin place’, steeped in myth—she has no idea how dangerous this story will…

#BookReview of #HotelCartagena by Simone Buchholz

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne31st March 20212 Comments

‘The German #1 bestseller from the ‘Queen of Krimi’– Hotel Cartagena [ About the Book ] Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, Public Prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when twelve heavily armed men pull out guns, and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages…

#BookReview of #TheDrownedCity by K.J. Maitland | @headlinepg

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne30th March 20216 Comments

Gunpowder and treason changed England foreverBut the tides are turning and revenge runs deep…– The Drowned City [ About the Book ] 1606. A year to the day that men were executed for conspiring to blow up Parliament, a towering wave devastates the Bristol Channel. Some proclaim God’s vengeance. Others seek to take advantage. In…

#BookReview of #WhileNobodyIsWatching by Michelle Dunne | @NotDunneYet

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne26th March 20211 Comment

Blue helmets and blurred lines While Nobody is Watching delves into the dark world of PTSD and a battle scarred soldier struggling to find a place in her new world. [ About the Book ] A semi-inflated football and a curious little girl. They called it peacekeeping. For Corporal Lindsey Ryan it was anything but.…

#BookReview of #TheSource by Sarah Sultoon

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th March 2021Leave a comment

‘A young TV journalist is forced to revisit her harrowing past when she’s thrust into a sex-trafficking investigation in her hometown’– The Source [ About the Book ] 1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another…

#BookReview of #Panenka by Rónán Hession | @MumblinDeafRo | @Ofmooseandmen

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne23rd March 20212 Comments

“His name was Joseph, but for years they had called him Panenka, a name that was his sadness and his story” [ About the Book ] Panenka has spent 25 years living with the disastrous mistakes of his past, which have made him an exile in his home town and cost him his dearest relationships.…

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