*A SUNDAY TIMES best crime fiction of the year selection*– The Stolen Child [ About The Stolen Child ] It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. But there’s no waking up from this . . . On board a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, Kimberly wakes to discover that her two-year-old son Robert has vanished from the cabin overnight.…
Unclaimed Baggage by Katie O’Rourke publishes on April 8th with Type Eighteen Books and is described as ‘a reflection on family, grief, and what it truly takes to love.’ Katie is joining me on the blog today with a short guest post and she has also kindly shared an extract for you all to read. I…
‘Arriving for the first time, tucked into a UN car, I watched as the city lights refracted through the bulletproof glass. Floodlights hovered over a pickup football game, square lamps uplit the National Museum, fairy lights dripped down the palm trees beside the Tigris River. Why was it so…nice?’– Fundamentally [ About Fundamentally ] By…
‘This was their land and no one could be trusted’– Of Land & Greed [ About Of Land & Greed ] As Ireland shifts from British rule to independence, the Crowley family experiences triumph and tragedy in their quest for power and legacy. Seán Óg Crowley, the first in his family to own the land…
‘And the young woman in his picture – already he thinks of the painting as ‘his’ – who might she be? That he does not yet know.’– Woman In Blue [ About Woman in Blue] ‘You will live beyond one lifetime and beyond even two in the painting he makes of you.’ In the Rijksmuseum…
‘I could be in the present, but I’m hyper-focused on the future. And I’m not the only one. In fact, the majority are in this boat with me. Rather than appreciating the now, we’re anticipating the hypothetical better tomorrow’– Daragh Fleming, A Brief Inhalation [ About A Brief Inhalation ] A Brief Inhalation is a candid…
‘An honest, heartfelt exploration of love, loss, and the bravery to face your demons.‘– Assembling Ailish [ About Assembling Ailish ] Ailish McCarthy is not doing well. Outwardly successful – career, beautiful home, wealthy husband, two daughters reared and on the cusp of their own lives– inwardly she is crumbling. Her relationship with her mother…
‘A WWII story of love, redemption, and resistance.‘– The Bishop’s Villa [ About The Bishop’s Villa ] Tuscany, November 1943. The village of Le Case is miles from any big city and remains rooted in an earlier century. Seen from Le Case, even the war looks different—mostly a matter of waiting, praying, and mourning. As…
‘If home is where the heart is, where will hers take her?‘– Moving On [ About Moving On ] Three great loves. Two different countries. One step closer to finding her way home . . . As a new decade begins, hopeless romantic and big dreamer Ellen is finally moving on from her hometown. In…
‘In the vein of Never Let Me Go and Killers of the Flower Moon, one of America’s greatest storytellers sheds light on an American tragedy: the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the ‘cultural genocide’ experienced by the Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School . . .’– To Save The Man (Publisher Quote) My…