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#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 | #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…

#GuestPost | “Pandemically seeking rest” by Judith Cuffe | Sing Me Home OUT NOW with @PoolbegBooks | @MiddleJudy

Guest PostBy Mairéad Hearne20th May 2020Leave a comment

‘A story of the aftermath, of picking up the pieces, of finding yourself again and discovering that life isn’t always easy . . . it’s not meant to be, but it can be worth it.‘~ Sing Me Home Sing Me Home is the latest novel from Irish writer Judith Cuffe. It is the second book…

#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 | #BuryThemDeep by James Oswald | @SirBenfro

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne7th May 2020Leave a comment

‘She drinks as deep as she can, each swallow a little less painful than the last. Too late, she understands there is something in the water to take away the pain. Something to lull her to sleep. No refuge there from the demons that haunt her.’– Bury Them Deep [ About the Book ] When…

#BookReview #NormalPeople by Sally Rooney

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th May 202015 Comments

‘The literary phenomenon of the decade.’ – Guardian– Normal People [ About the Book ] Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts…

#BookReview | Only You by @KateEberlen |#ReadOnlyYou

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne5th May 20204 Comments

‘One person is all it takes to change a lifetime’– Only You [ About the Book ] PresentLetty and Alf are the only English speakers at an Italian class in Rome, where they discover the language that really connects them is dance: Letty’s first love was ballet, while Alf was a junior ballroom champion. They…

#BookReview | #WhenWeFall by @novelcarolyn | @noexitpress

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne24th April 20204 Comments

‘With characters inspired by the real female pilots who flew for Air Transport Auxiliary, as well as the only female victim of the Katyn massacre, who was also a pilot’– When We Fall When We Fall by Carolyn Kirby will be published in paperback format with No Exit Press on 7th May 2020 to coincide…

#BookReview | Strangers by C.L. Taylor

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne23rd April 202010 Comments

‘Three strangers stand around a dead body.They had to do it.But why?’– Strangers [ About the Book ] Ursula, Gareth and Alice have never met before. Ursula thinks she killed the love of her life.Gareth’s been receiving strange postcards.And Alice is being stalked. None of them are used to relying on others – but when…

#BookReview | #TheIslandGirls by @NoelleHarrison | @bookouture

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne22nd April 20202 Comments

‘She’d been steadily drifting further and further away from her life before. She would never get it back. She knew that. But maybe her destination was a place where she could forget, and be forgotten? This was all she wanted right now.’– The Island Girls [ About the Book ] When young nurse Emer loses her beloved…

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