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#BookReview of #BeforeHeKillsAgain by @TadhgCoakley | @MercierBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne18th April 2023Leave a comment

‘ ‘Before He Kills Again is partly set in Cork city, exploring themes like sexual and gender-based violence and how misogyny can be spread through social media. It’s also partly set in West Cork. This is mainly because Collins is from there and I wanted to explore the themes of home and love in the…

#Extract from #ToDreamofShadows by @Steve_N_Lee

ExtractBy Mairéad Hearne17th April 20232 Comments

To Dream Of Shadows is described as ‘an epic tale of compassion, sacrifice, and the strength of the human spirit.’ To Dream Of Shadows by Steve N Lee was just published April 16th and is the first of two books ‘inspired by a true love story from history’s darkest hour’. To celebrate its publication I…

#BookReview of #TheresSomethingIHaveToTellYou by Michelle McDonagh | @michellemcd | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne13th April 2023Leave a comment

‘On Glenbeg Farm, it was a sunny morning like any other.Only the distressed bark of beloved collie Samson hinted that all was not well’– There’s Something I have to Tell You [ About There’s Something I Have To Tell You ] When the bodies of wealthy matriarch Ursula Kennedy and her farmer husband Jimmy are…

#BookReview of #AmericanBombshell by David King | @PoolbegBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne11th April 2023Leave a comment

Love, lies and taboo liaisons, a coming-of-age story. Set against the backdrop of a country at war.– American Bombshell [ About American Bombshell ] Incarcerated in an abusive orphanage by an unstable and vengeful mother, seventeen-year-old Rosie Haskell is released in February 1944 to survive in an adult world. She finds a job at a wartime…

#BookReview of #TheRedBirdSings by Aoife Fitzpatrick | @aoifefitz_ | @ViragoBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne5th April 20236 Comments

Prize-winning Gothic feminist suspense based on a murder trial in 1897 West Virginia when the testimony of a ghost was admitted in court– The Red Bird Sings [ About The Red Bird Sings ] West Virginia, 1897. When young Zona Heaster Shue dies only a few months after her wedding, her mother Mary Jane becomes…

#BookReview of #TheLastDaysOfJoy by Anne Tiernan | @HachetteIre

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th March 20231 Comment

‘EVERY FAMILY HAS SECRETS. SOME ARE JUST BETTER AT HIDING THEIRS…‘– The Last Days Of Joy [ About The Last Days of Joy ] MEET THE TOBIN FAMILY …Joy, the complicated, troubled motherShe’s spent her life running from her past while trying to raise her children as best she can. Conor, the high-achieving eldest childA…

#BookReview of #WiderThanTheSea by Serena Molloy | @happy_scribbler

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st March 20234 Comments

‘The powerful tale of a girl who feels broken, and the dolphin who makes her whole’– Wider Than The Sea by Serena Molloy [ About Wider Than The Sea by Serena Molloy ] Ró finds school impossible. When she reads, the words seem to jump around on the page. and she just can’t make them…

#BookReview – The Space Between Us by Doug Johnstone

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne16th March 20234 Comments

‘When three people suffer strokes after seeing dazzling lights over Edinburgh, then awake completely recovered, they’re convinced their ordeal is connected to the alien creature discovered on a nearby beach…‘– The Space Between Us [ About The Space Between Us ] Connecting will change everything… Lennox is a troubled teenager with no family. Ava is…

Banner image with quotess for a book called Wild Embrace by Anja Murray

#Spotlight on a stunning new release – #WildEmbrace by Anja Murray | @MiseAnja | @HachetteIre

Book SpotlightBy Mairéad Hearne13th March 2023Leave a comment

“We live at a crux time, where burning ecological issues have never been so urgently in need of attention. As we grapple with matters of loss and destruction, it can be easy to lose sight of the natural bounty that exists all around us”Wild Embrace – Connecting to the Wonder of Ireland’s Natural World Wild…

#BookReview of Mrs Hart’s Marriage Bureau by Sheena Wilkinson @sheenawriter |@HCinIreland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne9th March 20232 Comments

‘They’ll find you love even if they can’t find it for themselves‘– Mrs Hart’s Marriage Bureau [ About Mrs Hart’s Marriage Bureau ] April McVey hasn’t a romantic bone in her body. So how has she found herself at the door of Mrs Hart’s Marriage Bureau, job application in hand? Matchmaker Martha hopes the lively…

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