Representing the interests of Irish writers
Representing the interests of Irish writers
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Crime & Mystery, Modern & Contemporary, General Fiction
Over Spilled Ink
english
9781916814103
A corpse in a cupboard. Four likely suspects. One visually-impaired seventy-something sleuth.
Introducing the brand-new cozy mystery series: Mrs Smith’s Suspects
It’s nearly Christmas in the small English town of Little Wittering, and retired teacher Sally Smith is enjoying an afternoon in the hair salon.
Until she sniffs out a corpse.
With a body in the broom cupboard and a police-imposed lock-in until the culprit is caught, it doesn’t take long to deduce someone in the salon is a cold-blooded killer.
Sally’s most challenging former pupil may have scraped through Police College but he’s as incompetent as ever, so when the cops think they’ve collared the criminal, Sally’s not sure they’ve made the right cut.
Can a blind woman identify the true culprit or will Sally’s sleuthing make her the chief suspect – or the next victim?
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Claude, Gord, Alice, and Maud is the first of Jinny Alexander’s British small-town cosy mystery series, in which septuagenarian Mrs Smith sniffs out both the corpse and the culprit, in this modern-day version of a Golden Age locked room mystery. Buy now to discover this delightful new series for yourself.
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Historical Fiction
Independent Publishing
english
9781838530563
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Historical Fiction
Independent Publishing
english
9781838537548
The Weaver’s Legacy: A Historical Novel of the Irish in the American West
The year 1865. Goldie O’Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed American West with her family to form their own Irish Catholic colony. Their new community had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon learned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year after their arrival, Goldie blames herself for her sister’s disappearance. She forms an unlikely friendship with a Lakota Indian boy who promises to help with her lifelong quest to find her sister. In the intervening years, as their community flourishes and a new prejudice surfaces, her sister’s disappearance ebbs away for everyone except Goldie.
The year 1937. Lucy O’Neill was adopted by her aunt Goldie O’Neill. When she learns that her father, Lorcan O’Neill, has returned to the small town in the Midwest after a 30-year absence, she returns to meet him. Aware of the silence that surrounds his name and the reluctance of her family to reveal the real story, Lucy delves into the past to find a story far removed from the account her aunt had told her.
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Historical Fiction
Independent Publishing
english
9781800497870
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Historical Fiction
Independent Publishing
english
9781838530570
The Memory of Music: An Irish Family Saga of War & Redemption
One Irish family, 100 turbulent years.
1916: Betty O’Fogarty is proud and clever. Spurred on by Betty’s belief in her husband Seamus’s talent as a violin-maker and her desire to escape rural life, the couple elopes to Dublin. She expects life there to fulfill all her dreams. To her horror, she discovers that they can only afford to live in the notorious poverty-stricken tenements. Seamus becomes obsessed with republican politics and neglects his lucrative craft.
As Dublin is plunged into chaos as the Easter Rebellion of 1916, Betty gives birth to her first child to the sound of gunfire and shelling. But Betty vows that she will survive war and want, and move her little family out of the tenements. Nothing will stand in her way. A hundred years later, secrets churn their way to the surface, and Betty’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren uncover both Betty’s ruthlessness and her unique brand of heroism.
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Crime & Mystery, Modern & Contemporary, Thriller & Suspense
Blackstaff Press
english
9781780732336
‘None of us involved in this are safe, do you realise that? I don’t feel safe. Since I stepped off the fuckin’ plane in Cork last night, I haven’t felt safe.’
Noelie Sullivan, disaffected ex-punk and grassroots activist, has every reason to be afraid. His investigation into Danesfort Industrial School and the boys who went missing from it is attracting attention. Special Branch want him to disappear and he’s made enemies of the powerful Walsh and Donnelly families.
But Noelie is determined to get to the truth. He won’t walk away. At least that’s what he tells himself until his friends and family start paying the price.
A River of Bodies is the gripping sequel to To Keep A Bird Singing and the second part of Kevin Doyle’s Solidarity Books trilogy.
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Children’s Books
Chispa
english
9780955745720
The Worms That Saved The World is an illustrated children’s book about a rebellious group of earthworms who fight to save their home from a luxury golf course that takes over their headland. The story was inspired by a famous campaign that took place at the Old Head of Kinsale in Cork, Ireland at the turn of the millennium.
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Crime & Mystery, Modern & Contemporary, Thriller & Suspense
Blackstaff Press
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9781780731711
Ireland, 2010, and austerity is biting. When downbeat and disaffected Noelie Sullivan finds his missing punk records for sale in a charity shop in Cork, it seems like a lucky break until he discovers documents inside one of the sleeves, alleging that missing local man, Jim Dalton, was murdered twenty years ago.
In spite of himself, Noelie is drawn into the story of Dalton’s disappearance and uncovers a link between the missing man and a powerful family of brothers, the Donnellys, who have ties to Danesfort, a former industrial school near Cork. What Noelie doesn’t know is that Special Branch are watching his every move and they have a vested interest in making sure that he doesn’t discover the truth.
Topical and brilliantly plotted, this is a gripping political thriller about the abuse of power..
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Crime & Mystery, Family Life Fiction, Horror & Supernatural, LGBTQ+, Modern & Contemporary, Thriller & Suspense, Young Adult, General Fiction
english
979-8851034879
The last critic to drive a knife into Karina Stark gave her the fame she craved – and she’s not ready to RIP.
When a pseudo-goth popstar and animal rights activist is found viciously murdered, she
becomes a cult icon – and her mother a monster. For Karina Stark left a diary in which she
accused Gloria of being ‘the Mum from Hell’. Envious of her daughter’s growing success, bitter
about her own broken dreams, Gloria wanted Karina dead – or so the girl claimed.
Now the grieving mum is under suspicion, up against the police, the press, the neighbours, the
other members of Karina’s band and the dead girl’s morbid young fans.
Gradually the real Karina emerges, through the eyes of her ex-boyfriend, an autistic girl she
relentlessly bullied, a jaded ex-tabloid journalist who starts an affair with Karina’s mum – and a
macho detective who is increasingly falling under Karina’s spell…
Meanwhile, Karina is still making appearances…haunting her neighbourhood and old school,
terrorising, seducing and destroying everyone who tries to put her soul to rest.
* Aneeta Hall is a pseudonym for the journalist Geraldine Comiskey
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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction
english
https://www.webnovel.com/book/gene-jinni-a-monstrosa-story._24758305705756605
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Time changes, man changes, time changes man.
blood spills once again in the streets of post war Cloistergrad as a young man takes his first steps off the kerb of here and now into a new reality. Set in the near future in the dark dictatorship of Burndegard’s Permia, in the city of Cloistergrad somewhere in modern eastern Europe. A mad doctor’s plans for state domination rests in the body of a man with no memory, but little does he know that once you let the Jinni out of the bottle it is impossible to get it back in again. As the man he has kidnapped and infected with his mutating virus is now ripping their world apart on his journey to become the Gaia.
As this virus spreads, mutating everyone it touches into their own personal-nightmare image, the mighty and the weak alike struggle for survival. The secret police play their bloody games to rest power from their leader, The universe plays it’s hand in the form of the Being Scorpio who guides our protagonist Peter Elworth and his fellow refugees through the labyrinth of the inner-mind and the universe beyond.
With a host of characters and multiple converging threads, transformations, dirty politics and a car chase this story bounds along with a relentless energy right up to the climatic finish.
