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#BookReview | LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL by Rónán Hession | @Ofmooseandmen | @MumblinDeafRo | #LEONARDANDHUNGRYPAUL

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th June 202011 Comments

“Anyone can say something beautiful in the moment. Anyone can deliver the right line. But that’s not real. That doesn’t prove anything. What matters is what a person is really like. What matters is what a person is prepared to reveal to you in real time in the real world, when there is no soundtrack…

#BookReview | #TheCurator by @MWCravenUK | @TheCrimeVault | @BethWright26 #TeamPoe #TeamTilly

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th June 20204 Comments

‘A serial killer is leaving displayed body parts all over Cumbria.A strange message is left at each scene: #BSC6‘– The Curator [ Book Description ] It’s the end of the year and a serial killer is leaving displayed body parts all over Cumbria. A strange message is left at each scene: #BSC6 Called in to…

#BookReview | #TheWaitingRooms by Eve Smith | @evecsmith | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th June 20202 Comments

‘A powerful and terrifyingly relevant literary debut combining the speculative power of Station Eleven with a taut, shocking thriller’– The Waiting Rooms [ About the Book ] Decades of spiralling drug resistance have unleashed a global antibiotic crisis. Ordinary infections are untreatable: a scratch from a pet can kill. A sacrifice is required to keep…

#BookReview | #TheRestaurant by @roisinmeaney | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne3rd June 20204 Comments

One TableFourteen ChairsIs love on the menu?– The Restaurant [ About the Book ] When chef Emily is left at the altar in front of her family and friends, she swears off love and instead throws herself into her new business: a restaurant with a difference. There’s only one communal table, designed with the single…

#BookReview | #LuciasWar by Susan Lanigan | @susanl_author

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne29th May 2020Leave a comment

‘A story of motherhood, music, loss and redemption, set in the latter part of WWI and post-Armistice.’– Lucia’s War [ About the Book ] London, 1949. Opera singer Lucia Percival is due to perform her last concert. But she has no intention of going onstage. A terrible secret from the First World War has finally…

#BookReview |#TheWinterAgent by @GarethRubin | #BlogTour with @MichaelJBooks

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th May 20204 Comments

‘Based on real events, this is the gripping story of a man operating in the darkest of circumstances – and the unimaginable sacrifices war demands of those who fight it.‘– The Winter Agent [ About the Book ] February, 1944. A bitter winter grips occupied France, where Marc Reece leads an SOE circuit facing deadly…

#BookReview | #TheTainted by @CauveryMadhavan | @hoperoadpublish

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne26th May 20206 Comments

‘In the afternoon everything came to a standstill. The fragrant khus-khus tatties were lowered over every window and door, and the bhistis drenched them with water…..As the water evaporated from the sweet-smelling grass blinds and the punkahs circulated cool air around the darkened rooms, it was possible in those couple of hours to drift off…

#BookReview | #OurLittleCruelties by Liz Nugent | @lizzienugent

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd May 202010 Comments

Three brothers are at the funeral.One lies in the coffin– Our Little Cruelties [ About the Book ] Three brothers are at the funeral. One lies in the coffin. Will, Brian and Luke grow up competing for their mother’s unequal love. As men, the competition continues – for status, money, fame, women … They each…

#BookReview | #Augury by @SEListerAuthor | @oldstpublishing

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne19th May 20202 Comments

‘A tour-de-force of imagination and literary craft from a young author whose star is rising. The setting is ancient, yet its conflicts, fears – and its hopes – are our own.‘– Augury (Publisher) [ About the Book ] The people of an ancient city awaken one night to find the earth beneath them trembling. But…

#BookReview | #FiftyFifty by Steve Cavanagh | @SSCav

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne15th May 20204 Comments

An Eddie Flynn novel– Fifty Fifty [ About the Book ] Two sisters on trial for murder. They accuse each other.Who do YOU believe? ‘911 what’s your emergency?’ ‘My dad’s dead. My sister Sofia killed him. She’s still in the house. Please send help.’ ‘My dad’s dead. My sister Alexandra killed him. She’s still in the house. Please send help.’…

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