Caroline Jordan is the rising star of Irish PR until her most high profile client is found dead at his desk. The Minister for Justice may have been murdered... Now Caroline has a PR company to save and a strange policeman dogging her steps. Can she outwit the murderer, save her company, impress her new VIP client and most importantly, survive Irish Politics? She's not sure but fueled by vodka, rage and steely determination, she's going to give it a good try!
Hope’s mum died over a year ago and she misses her terribly. Her twin elder sisters have each other, and her dad has just started dating again, but Hope is lonely.
marvellous grace and wit.' PHILLIP HESHNER Writing about John McGahern, the American author John Updike called it 'that tonic gift, the sense of truth - the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own'.
Trieste, 1904. James Joyce - not yet famous - arrives in the city by train with Norah Barnacle. Penniless, he goes to seek out a loan, leaving Norah sitting on a suitcase outside the train station for almost an entire day and night. In reality, Norah waited for him; they were reunited, and the rest is history. But what if she hadn't?
From a piano abandoned on the strife-torn streets of Dublin in Easter 1916, Mary Morissy spins the reader backwards through the life of one-time enigmatic beauty Bella Casey, sister to the famed playwright Sean O'Casey. An ambitious novel about love, history and literature.