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#BookReview | The Skelper and Me: A memoir of making history in Derry by Tony Doherty | @tonydutchdoc | @MercierBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne29th July 2020Leave a comment

‘The metal door of Cell 5 clanged heavily behind me. I realised I was in someone else’s space as I eyed the resident prisoner for the first time. In effect, I had just moved into his bedsit. It was 1 March 1981’– The Skelper and Me [ About the Book ] From a young age,…

#Extract | #TheBirdInTheBambooCage by @HazelGaynor | @HCinIreland

ExtractBy Mairéad Hearne16th July 2020Leave a comment

‘From the Irish Times bestselling author of The Lighthouse Keeper’sDaughter comes an unforgettable story of courage and friendship, and the life-changing bonds formed between a young girl and her teacher duringWW2.Inspired by true events, The Bird in The Bamboo Cage will be published as we mark the 75th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in WW2, and…

#BookReview | #ThePullOfTheStars by Emma Donoghue | @EDonoghueWriter | @picadorbooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne10th July 20204 Comments

‘A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and ROOM.‘– The Pull of the Stars [ Book Description ] Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an…

#BookReview | #TheBirdInTheBambooCage by @HazelGaynor | @HCinIreland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne3rd July 20206 Comments

‘Their motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war. . .‘– The Bird in the Bamboo Cage [ Book Description ] China, December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth Kent is now anxious to return home to…

#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 | #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…

#Extract & #GuestPost | Robert Craven | Author of Eagles Hunt Wolves | @cravenrobert

Extract, Guest PostBy Mairéad Hearne18th May 2020Leave a comment

‘A Polish national, recruited as a spy for British Intelligence and placed at the highest echelons of the Third Reich’– Eagles Hunt Wolves It is a great pleasure to welcome Irish writer Robert Craven today talking about his latest novel, Eagles Hunt Wolves, the final book in his historical fiction spy series featuring Eva Molenaar.…

#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…

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