Read Ireland Book Review
Issue 145
Irish Fiction
The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor (Hardback; 16.99 IEP / 18.99 USD / 14.50 UK) [Add To Basket]
This collection contains twelve new stories from one of Ireland's master storytellers. Set mostly in Ireland, they show the author to be writing at the height of his powers. In 'Three People', an ageing father waits for the proposal for his daughter that will never some from the man who once told a lie to save her; in 'Against the Odds', a con-woman who has plied her trade across the entire Six Counties fixes this time on a widower in a small inland town; and in the poignant title-story, the youngest son returns for his father's funeral to the family hill farm to find it has become his unwelcome inheritance. Trevor writes with understatement and precision about the lonely and the sad, about those who have something to hide and those who barely have control over their lives.
Someone Like You by Cathy Kelly (Paperback; 9.99 IEP / 12.50 USD / 7.50 UK) [Add To Basket]
This new novel from the best-selling author of Irish contemporary romance features Leonie, Emma and Hannah - all want just one thing in life and then they'll be truly happy. For Leonie, divorced 40-something mum-of-three, happiness means finding the true love she ended her marriage for. For the insecure and just-married Emma, it means escaping the control of her domineering family and conceiving a longed-for child with her beloved husband. And for fiercely independent, beautiful Hannah, happiness means money and security - something she doesn't think any many can ever provide. But as these three very different women discover, wanting something with all your heart and actually getting it are two very different things. Because sometimes when you get it you may discover it's not what you wanted after all …
Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes (Hardback; 14.99 IEP / 18.50 USD / 12.00 UK) [Add To Basket]
London magazine editor, Lisa Edwards, shiny and hard as an M&M, thinks her life has ended. Her 'fabulous' new job turns out to be deportation to Dublin, launching 'Colleen' magazine. If it weren't for the decorative presence of her new boss she might just turn on her Prada heel and take the first plane back. And Ashling Kennedy, 'Colleen's' assistant editor, has her own problems. There's a homeless boy asleep in her doorway, her life is overrun with stand-up comedians and she can't stop buying handbags. The person she envies most in the world is her oldest friend Clodagh, and for very good reason. Known as the princess, life has always delivered what Clodagh Kelly wants - and why not when you are traffic-stopping beautiful. She's living with her prince in a maple-floored castle. So why, lately, has she had the urge to kiss a frog? Sharp, funny and sweet, this novel confirms the author's place as the new queen of contemporary Irish romantic fiction writers.
Three Times a Lady by Sarah Webb (Paperback; 6.99 IEP / 8.99 USD / 5.00 UK) [Add To Basket]
This debut romantic novel is fast-moving, compelling, sexy and fun! It follows three very different women. Sally is back from the Caribbean where she had been working on a luxury yacht. She eats men for breakfast and now she has a certain man in mind for her next meal! Eve is an accountant, a solitary control freak who has chosen career over love and lived to regret it. Ashling is a journalist, bringing up a six-year old son on her own. The only man she trusts is hundreds of miles away … Three women who have one thing in common: Mark Mulhearne. And now he is back for a certain school reunion.
In Secret Sin by Rose Doyle (Paperback; 6.99 IEP / 8.50 USD / 5.50 UK) [Add To Basket]
Bridget Baldacci's long marriage to Victor defined her life. When he dies suddenly, the family and childhood past he's kept from her die with him. But Bridget finds the exclusion she accepted while he was alive intolerable now he is dead. From her home in Ireland, she heads for Seattle and to Victor's family, hoping to discover what it was that turned the boy who grew up there into the obsessively secretive man she married.
Once Upon a Summer by Patricia O'Reilly (Paperback; 6.99 IEP / 8.50 USD / 5.50 UK) [Add To Basket]
It is 1959, and the class of 4A at Rose Horn's convent school in Dublin have discovered boys … and dating … and kissing. Rose dreams of love, and of exchanging her thick lisle stockings and bulky school uniform for the daring black chiffon numbers of the gorgeous Rita Hayworth. When her mother disvoers Rose's secret trysts with Frank Fennelly, she banishes her to spend the summer in the depths of Kerry - far from the temptation she believes. But beneath the peaceful exterior of Fenit village, lurks a wild place of social undercurrents.
Liv by Kathleen Coyle (Paperback; 8.99 IEP / 10.50 USD / 7.50 UK) [Add To Basket]
This classic Irish novel was first published in 1928. In it, Liv Evensen aches to escape the confines of her sheltered existence. In her soul she knows that there is more to life than her engagement to Harald. Like her aunt a generation before, she travels to Paris on a journey of self--discovery. After a short time in Paris she comes face to face with danger - in the person of world-weary Per Malom. With passionate empathy, the author relates Liv's crisis as she struggles to follow her own sense of truth to the end.
For Love or Money by Tony Flannery (Paperback; 8.99 IEP / 10.50 USD / 7.50 UK) [Add To Basket]
In the middle of the night, the peace of St. Carthage's monastery is shattered. A body has been discovered - a priest has hanged himself. The community is thrown into chaos as the religious life is exposed to the scrutiny of a hostile world that no longer holds the teachings of the Church in reverence.
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