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#BookReview | Dirtbirds’ Self-Help Guide by Sue Collins & Sinead Culbert

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne19th November 2019Leave a comment

‘How to Have Confidence When You Feel Lower than a Snake’s Arse‘ Dirtbirds, Sue Collins and Sinead Culbert, are an Irish comedy duo who have been selling out venues all over Ireland since 2016. Their weekly sketches have a huge social media following and the pair regularly receive rave reviews after their sell-out live shows.…

#BlogTour | In The Wake by @helentrevorrow | @Urbanebooks #LoveBooksTours

Blog Tour, ExtractBy Mairéad Hearne18th November 20191 Comment

I am delighted to be joining Helen Trevorrow on tour today with her debut novel, In The Wake. Published with Urbane Publications In The Wake ‘questions whether we can ever truly leave our pasts behind and explores the lengths that we will go to protect the people that we love.’ I have an extract to…

#BookReview | All That’s Dead by Stuart MacBride

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne15th November 20192 Comments

Scream all you want,no one can hear…– All That’s Dead [ About the Book ] Inspector Logan McRae is looking forward to a nice simple case – something to ease him back into work after a year off on the sick. But the powers-that-be have other ideas… The high-profile anti-independence campaigner, Professor Wilson, has gone…

#BookReview | #Violet by @SJIHolliday | @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne14th November 20194 Comments

StrangerBest friendLiar……. VIOLET [ About the Book ] When two strangers end up sharing a cabin on the Trans-Siberian Express, an intense friendship develops, one that can only have one ending Carrie’s best friend has an accident and can no longer make the round-the-world trip they’d planned together, so Carrie decides to go it alone.…

#BlogTour | A Mrs Miracle Christmas by @debbiemacomber | #Extract | @arrowpublishing

Blog Tour, ExtractBy Mairéad Hearne12th November 2019Leave a comment

‘GET READY FOR THE HOLIDAY MIRACLE YOU WILL NEVER FORGET‘ with A Mrs Miracle Christmas by Debbie Macomber It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas folks so there really is only one thing for it and that’s just to embrace the season and jump right in! So to get you in that festive mood…

#Giveaway 🎉🎉 Rewrite the Stars by Emma Heatherington THE PERFECT FESTIVE TREAT ❄❄

BookGiveawayBy Mairéad Hearne8th November 20195 Comments

‘Is the one that got away not really the one at all…?Rewrite the Stars – GIVEAWAY I remember the day I first set up my account on Twitter in 2016. I was petrified. What if no one paid any attention to me? How would I be noticed? How loud would I have to roar? Well…

#BookReview | The Man on the Street by Trevor Wood

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne7th November 2019Leave a comment

He knows what he sawBut no one believes him– The Man on the Street [ About the Book ] It started with a splash. Jimmy, a homeless veteran grappling with PTSD, did his best to pretend he hadn’t heard it – the sound of something heavy falling into the Tyne at the height of an…

#BookReview | The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne6th November 20195 Comments

Having read and thoroughly enjoyed Sebastian Barry’s work in the past, I purchased the beautiful 2014 edition (Faber & Faber) of The Temporary Gentleman. Another heartrending and emotional read from Sebastian Barry, with a very dark tale at it’s core. [ About the Book ] Jack McNulty is a ‘temporary gentleman’, an Irishman whose commission…

#BookReview | Nothing Important Happened Today by @will_carver | @OrendaBooks | #NothingImportantHappenedToday

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne4th November 2019Leave a comment

We are The People of ChoiceThe ones now with courageAnd we choose not to fearThis is one solutionIt is not the endNor is it the beginningThere are always more who choose to liveThere is but one certainty– Nothing Important Happened Today [ About the Book ] Nine people arrive one night on Chelsea Bridge. They’ve…

#BookReview | #BarefootPilgrimage by Andrea Corr | @HCinIreland

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne1st November 20192 Comments

‘I did not sit down at all, nor consider a destination. I just obeyed the pictures as they came. The questions. The fleeting moments. The present into the past. The present because of the past and back again with a few human, mad-gene detours along the way ‘– Andrea Corr, Barefoot Pilgrimage Andrea Corr, member…

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