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Anybody out there? Anybody out there? Marian Keyes Marian Keyes has introduced readers to the lives, loves, and foibles of the five Walsh sisters — Claire, Maggie, Rachel, Helen, and Anna — and their crazy mammy. In this funny, heartbreaking, and tri… OL15027816W
Molly Fox's Birthday Molly Fox's Birthday Deirdre Madden Dublin. Midsummer. While absent in New York, the celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house to a playwright friend, who is struggling to write a new work. Over the course of this, the longest da… OL15172871W
Faithful Place Faithful Place Tana French Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping hisi family’s cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night the… OL15191187W
Hood Hood Emma Donoghue From the New York Times bestselling author of Room, Emma Donoghue, Hood is a graceful tale of a young woman who must come to terms with love and loss in the wake of her partner’s sudden passing. The … OL15212626W
This is the way This is the way Gavin Corbett Anthony Sonaghan, an Irish Traveller, is descended from two families whose ancient enmity has endured into the present. He comes to Dublin to lie low, and is disturbed only by Judith, a librarian who… OL16769447W
Winterland Winterland Alan Glynn When two men from the same family die on the same night, Gina Rafferty is filled with grief and a growing anger that drives her to find the truth behind these deaths. OL16939513W
The Secret Place The Secret Place Tana French Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in his office with a photo of a popular boy whose body was found at a … OL17371637W
A Husband's Confession A Husband's Confession Zoe Miller When Ali met Max in the summer of 1990, he turned her empty life around and filled it with love. Now, years on, Ali's greatest fear is that her happiness and contentment might be taken away from her.… OL17452931W
TransAtlantic TransAtlantic Colum McCann,Colum McCann A tale spanning 150 years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through … OL17653175W
The Guts The Guts Roddy Doyle "The man who invented the Commitments back in the 1980s is now 47, with a loving wife, 4 kids...and bowel cancer. He isn't dying, he thinks, but he might be. Jimmy still loves his music, and he still… OL17868899W
Happy Are the Peacemakers Happy Are the Peacemakers Andrew M. Greeley ***Father Greeley's fictional detective, the Most Reverend John Blackwood Ryan, auxiliary bishop of Chicago and amateur sleuth par excellence, becomes involved in another mystery with both theologica… OL17890W
Between the sheets Between the sheets Colette Caddle After Gus walks out on her, Dana is forced to face up to the past. Can she find the real Dana, recover her career, and try to make Gus love her for the person she really is? OL17910012W
Here are the young men Here are the young men Rob Doyle "Meet Matthew, Rez, Cocker, and Kearney. They've just finished school, and are facing the great void of the future, celebrating their freedom in this unpromising adult reality with self-obliteration.… OL18181810W
Smile Smile Roddy Doyle "A breakout from the Booker-prize-winning novelist Roddy Doyle. A psychological suspense novel unlike any he's written before, about how we contend with the past, trauma, guilt and regret, and the un… OL19718486W
Holy orders Holy orders John Banville When the body of his daughter's friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke is plunged into a world of corruption that takes him to the darkest corners of the Irish Church and State.-- OL19967551W
Eggshells Eggshells Caitriona Lally Vivian doesn't feel like she fits in - and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was "left by fairies." Now, living alone in Dublin, the neighbors treat her like s… OL20049947W
The Long, Hot Summer The Long, Hot Summer Kathleen MacMahon As Iseult stood with her empty champagne glass in her hand, casting around the room for someone to steady her, she had the feeling that she was sitting in a tiny boat in the middle of a huge ocean. A… OL20215658W
The love of her life The love of her life Kate McCabe Ellie McCoy has a wonderful life. She is married to star journalist Joe, a man she adores. She has a great job in the financial industry, three marvellous children, and a nice house in Clontarf, clos… OL20849764W
The playground The playground Julia Kelly Eve is putting her life together again. Her partner has walked out on her. She's moved into a tiny flat on the outskirts of Dublin. She has no job. But she does have her beloved baby daughter - and t… OL20867151W
Citizens Citizens Curran, Kevin (Teacher) Dublin 2010: Neil, twenty-six, unemployed, disaffected and disillusioned with Ireland, plans to emigrate and join his girlfriend in Canada. But having deferred his flight to attend his grandfather's … OL20882468W
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