‘He was troubled. It came off him like a smell. He was running away from something or someone.She’d heard Dublin in his accent. Not the colourful Dublin of Moore Street, less earthy than that, but his roots were definitely in the capital. Coming here put plenty of distance, almost four hundred kilometres, between him and…
‘Jim styles me his sleepy-eyed Nora. His squirrel girl from the pages of Ibsen. I am pirate queen and cattle raider. I’m his blessed little blackguard. I am, he says, his auburn marauder. I’m his honourable barnacle goose…. “Nora,” Jim says, “you are story.”’– NORA [ About the Book ] When Nora Barnacle, a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn’s Hotel, meets…
‘He’s coming for you….’– The Killing Kind [ About the Book ] He tells you you’re special…As a barrister, Ingrid Lewis is used to dealing with tricky clients, but no one has ever come close to John Webster. After Ingrid defended Webster against a stalking charge, he then turned on her – following her, ruining…
At the first wedding, there’s a shockThe second wedding is unexpectedBy the third, Delphie thinks nothing could surprise her. But she’s wrong . . .– Three Weddings and a Proposal [ About the Book ] Delphie is enjoying her brother’s wedding. Her surprise last-minute Plus One has stunned her family – and it’s also stopped…
‘She picketed Mass with a sign that read: “They killed my baby in Bessborough”’– Fallen [ About Fallen] When Michael Connolly was a child in the 1970s, his mother told him about all the things that happened to her in that place. All that the nuns had done. The doctors encouraged her to talk, and…
‘A young woman can hear the dead – a talent which is both a gift and a curse’– Listening Still [ About The Book ] Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family…
REUNIONSRECRIMINATIONSRECKONINGS– The Rules of Revelation [ About the Book ] Ireland. Great nationalists, bad mothers and a whole lot of secrets. And Ryan Cusack is ready to deliver its soundtrack. Former sex-worker Georgie wants the truth about Ryan’s past out there but the journalist has her own agenda. Mel returns from Brexit Britain, ill-equipped to…
“His name was Joseph, but for years they had called him Panenka, a name that was his sadness and his story” [ About the Book ] Panenka has spent 25 years living with the disastrous mistakes of his past, which have made him an exile in his home town and cost him his dearest relationships.…
“‘Freewheeling to Love’ started out as something to entertain myself during my first maternity leave 7 years ago. Covid lockdown inspired me to finish it.” It is a great pleasure to introduce you all to Irish writer Máire O’ Leary who published her debut novel Freewheeling to Love with Orla Kelly Publishing on 17 January…
‘AN OBSERVER, GRAZIA, IRISH TIMES AND IRISH INDEPENDENT HIGHLIGHT FOR 2021‘– Bright Burning Things [ About the Book ] Being Tommy’s mother is too much for Sonya. Too much love, too much fear, too much longing for the cool wine she gulps from the bottle each night. Because Sonya is burning the fish fingers, and driving too fast, and swimming too…