Six Degrees of Separation – Irish Style!
New to my TBR for #readingirelandmonth22!
No 494 All The Beggars Riding by Lucy Caldwell #readingirelandmonth20
Lucy Caldwell’s third novel All the Beggars Riding takes its title from the saying ‘if wishes were horses, beggars would ride’. Lara Moorhouse is almost forty and is struggling to come to terms with the break-up of her relationship and the recent death of her mother. Lara has spent her whole life wishing that…
Read more No 494 All The Beggars Riding by Lucy Caldwell #readingirelandmonth20
No 540 Girl with Green Eyes (The Country Girls #2) by Edna O’Brien plus giveaway! #readingirelandmonth19
It’s week two of Reading Ireland Month and this week I will be highlighting classic Irish literature. Last week saw the launch of the programme for the 2019 Dublin One City One Book festival, which this year features The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O’Brien. The Country Girls Trilogy joins a long list of illustrious…
No 568 The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty #20booksofsummer
As a massive Tom Waits fan, I’m a sucker for a book that uses his lyrics as an epigraph so The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty won me over before I even started reading. Thankfully though, the book itself did not disappoint. The story is set in 1981 in Northern Ireland during The Troubles.…
Read more No 568 The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty #20booksofsummer
No 576 The Light of Amsterdam by David Park
She liked the trams, the way they surreptitiously pushed you up against the mystery of other people’s lives. David Park’s subtle and thoughtful eighth novel surreptitiously pushes the reader up against the mystery of other people’s lives, in this case the lives of three middle-aged people – Karen, Alan and Marion – who are…
It’s Reading Ireland Month 2018!
Lady Beth by Caroline E Farrell
746books.com 