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#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…

#BookReview | #TheBookOfLongings by @suemonkkidd | @TinderPress

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne16th April 202011 Comments

I am Ana.I was the wife of Jesus..– The Book of Longings [ About the Book ] Ana is a rebellious young woman, a gifted writer with a curious, brilliant mind, who writes secret narratives about the neglected and silenced women around her. Raised in a wealthy family in Galilee, she is sheltered from the…

#BookReview | #TheSecretOfEvelineHouse by @SheilaForsey | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne3rd April 20204 Comments

‘A tale of tangled secrets and a search for the truth. The past cannot lie silent forever’ – The Secret of Eveline House [ About the Book ] It’s 1949 and playwright Violet Ward has returned from London with her husband Henry and young daughter Sylvia, to take up residence in Eveline House in County…

#BookReview | #Hamnet by Maggie O’ Farrell | @TinderPress

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne27th March 20209 Comments

‘TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.‘– Hamnet [ About the Book ] On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their…

#BookReview | #ADELE by Nicola Cassidy | @ladynicci |@PoolbegBooks | #BlogTour

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne25th March 20207 Comments

ADELEThe forgotten sister of Fred AstaireDancer, Icon, Star [ About the Book ] Adele is a tale of talent, glamour and fame at the height of the roaring 20s. 1973: Californian journalist Ellie Morgan sets out on a mission to research the life of Adele Astaire, famed 1920s dancer and comedienne, older sister to Fred Astaire.…

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