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#BookReview | Help Me! by Marianne Power aka @TheHelpMeBlog

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne26th September 20195 Comments

‘Feel the Fear changed my life the first time I read it because I took action: I felt the fear and quit my job. But since then I hadn’t stepped out of my comfort zone – I’d hardly stepped out of bed. And then with Sunday’s hangover finally fading, while I re-read Feel the Fear…

#BookReview | #REWIND by Catherine Ryan Howard | @cathryanhoward | @CorvusBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th September 20194 Comments

‘A moment’s delay.Then a frenzy of motion.The woman’s eyes open. Her body rises, head and shoulders lifting from the pillows, legs rising beneath the sheets. She opens her mouth as if to scream…’– REWIND [ About the Book ] PLAYAndrew, the manager of Shanamore Holiday Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in…

#BookReview |#FullOfGrace by Orla McAlinden | @OrlaMcAWrites | @RedStagBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th August 20192 Comments

‘In the seconds before the visitor pulls a balaclava over his five o’ clock shadow you already know he is bad news. A solitary figure slouching up the long farm path, no friendly wave, no shouted greeting. Skin-tight denim – drainpipes, your father would have called them. No dungarees, no boiler suit. You know this…

#BookReview | #TakeItBack by @KiaAbdullah | @HQstories

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne19th August 20192 Comments

Take your place on the jury. Who will you find guilty? – Take It Back [ About the Book ] The Victim: A sixteen-year-old girl with facial deformities, neglected by an alcoholic mother. Who accuses the boys of something unthinkable. The Defendants: Four handsome teenage boys from hardworking immigrant families. All with corroborating stories. Whose…

#BookReview | #FilterThis by Sophie White | @SophWhiteWrites | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne16th August 20199 Comments

Are the #instafabulous really #livingtheirbestlives ?– Filter This [ About the Book ] Ali Jones is hell-bent on achieving her #lifegoals: 10,000 Instagram followers and a win at the upcoming Glossie Influencer Awards. So when she inadvertently leads people to believe she is sporting a baby bump and immediately gains thousands of followers, she realises…

#BookReview | Love & Ruin by Paula McLain (With a reference to For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway)

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne2nd August 20195 Comments

In 1937, courageous and independent Martha Gellhorn travels to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War… – Love & Ruin [ About Love & Ruin ] In 1937, courageous and independent Martha Gellhorn travels to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, and finds herself drawn to…

Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry | @canongatebooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd July 20197 Comments

‘Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond sit on a bench just a few yards west of the hatch. They are in their low fifties. The years are rolling out like the tide now. There is old weather on their faces, on the hard lines of their jaws, on their chaotic mouths. But they retain – just…

#TheHidingGame by @NaomiWoodBooks | @picadorbooks | #BookReview

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne27th June 20196 Comments

Set at the Bauhaus art school in pre-war Germany…An intoxicating story of young friendships and fledgling loves in a heady and enticing world set against the backdrop of a precarious Europe. [ About the Book ] In 1922, Paul Beckermann arrives at the Bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the charismatic teaching…

#TimeWillTell by @EvaJordanWriter | #BookReview | @urbanebooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th June 20194 Comments

‘You’ll be fine,in time,and I’ll be right behind you…’ [ About the Book ] Writer, Lizzie Lemalf, and her loving but somewhat dysfunctional family are still grieving over the loss of a much-loved family member. Lizzie is doing her best to keep her family together but why does the recent death of a well-known celebrity…

Something to Live For by @richardroper | @orionbooks | #FindYourSomething

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st June 20196 Comments

Sometimes you need to risk everything…To find your something [ About the Book ] All Andrew wants is to be normal. He has the perfect wife and 2.4 children waiting at home for him after a long day. At least, that’s what he’s told people. The truth is, his life isn’t exactly as people think…

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