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#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 | #ExcitingTimes by Naoise Dolan

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne5th June 20206 Comments

‘Accessible, acerbic, smart, fun and full of wit.Poised to be the hottest debut of 2020′– Exciting Times [ Book Description ] When you leave Ireland aged 22 to spend your parents’ money, it’s called a gap year. When Ava leaves Ireland aged 22 to make her own money, she’s not sure what to call it,…

#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 | #TheSightOfYou by @ByHollyMiller | @HodderBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st May 20206 Comments

‘Would you choose LOVE…If you knew how it would END?’– The Sight of You [ About the Book ] Joel is afraid of the future.Since he was a child he’s been haunted by dreams about the people he loves. Visions of what’s going to happen – the good and the bad. And the only way…

#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…

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