Fiction - 2007-2010
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Best Love, RosieWritten by Nuala O'Faolain.'Best Love, Rosie...is the book of my years of commuting between the melancholy of Ireland and the optimism of America.' Nuala O'Faolain Like many a modern woman, Rosie has lived a full and fascinating life. However, facing the challenges of later middle age, she finds that the things that she has defined herself by most - work, love, independence - begin to fail her. She returns home to Ireland to care for aunt Min, but when an oppurtunity arises to visit the States, the story takes an unexpected turn... |
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Capital SinsWritten by Peter Cunningham.Ireland, 2006. Financial hysteria grips the nation. No one can speak of anything but the price of property - it is impossible not to make money. Developers gorge on massive loans. Bankers, egged on by politicians, trample over each other in the stampede to lend more and more. Millionaires are created every day as the stock market soars and Ireland audaciously becomes one of the world’s wealthiest nations. With devastating accuracy and savage humour, Peter Cunningham’s novel tells the story of the final year of the Celtic Tiger as it has never been told before. |
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Danny, Mario and MeWritten by Denise Sewell.Danny, Mario and Me is a story of friendship between three teenage boys in an Irish border town in the 80s. Taidg, Danny and Mario are best friends, thick as thieves, untouchable, until one Friday night, when Danny hangs himself in a field at the back of his family home. Haunted by the manner of his friend’s death, Taidg wants answers. In his endeavour to unfold the events that led to the tragic night, Taidg reaches out to Danny’s mother, Margaret, to help him understand. |
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Darling SweetheartWritten by Stephen Price.From the author of The Monkey Man and The Christmas Club comes this witty and satirical novel set in the glamourous world of film-making. Twenty four year-old actress Annalise Palatine is getting her big break, in a Hollywood blockbuster opposite international film star Harry Emerson. Manipulated by forces she hasn’t reckoned with, a shocking development in her private life adds to the pressure; more and more, she retreats into her unhappy past, plagued by haunting childhood memories and feelings for her dead father. But sometimes the ghosts from the past can take on very strange forms indeed... |
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Find the LadyWritten by Tom MacIntyre.Find the Lady is the latest collection of short stories by acclaimed writer Tom MacIntyre. Written as a series of dreamscapes and infused with a strong sense of play, many of the stories are influenced by the writer's vivid dreams and imaginative life, as well as the great mythologies of the classical and Celtic traditions. MacIntyre explores the world of archetypes and the unconscious with a talent for language that brings each tale alive. |