10 books for August: Donal Ryan, Colm Toibín, Amanda Cassidy...
L-R: Donal Ryan, Amanda Cassidy, The Last Disco
Home interiors influencer Elle Littlewood’s life is the envy of thousands but if her followers knew the truth about her past they would never look at her the same way again. When she finds a dilapidated chateau for sale at a rock bottom price she doesn’t care that it comes with huge strings attached. The Perfect Place book launch takes place at Waterstones Cork on Tuesday, August 6.
Four years after a brutal breakup on a flight to their dream European food and wine tour, Theo and Kit each decide to finally use their voucher for the tour that never happened — only realising when they board the tour bus that they had the exact same idea, and now they're forced together for three romance-filled weeks.
In this gripping account the harrowing true story of the Stardust tragedy is revealed, citing new evidence brought forward during recent inquests in the relentless pursuit of justice. This honours the memories of those who were lost, while shedding light on the tragedy that still shocks the nation to this day.
Ten years on, Donal Ryan picks up the twenty-one voices from The Spinning Heart as a new menace is creeping around the lakeshore and the lanes of the town. Old grudges are festering and new ones are rising, and the peace of the community is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way.
An anonymous letter puzzles the team of lexicographers at the Clarendon English Dictionary. The letter hints at secrets, lies, and a particular year. For Martha Thornhill, the new Senior Editor, the date can mean only one thing: the summer her brilliant, beautiful older sister Charlie went missing.
Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is called to a sleepy Yorkshire town and the seemingly tedious matter of a stolen painting and we are treated a fiendishly clever mystery that pays homage to the masters of the genre, from Agatha Christie to Dorothy Sayers.
One hundred years after the birth of writer James Baldwin, novelist Colm Toibin shares a personal account of encountering Baldwin's work.
When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, she searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed.
Set during the summer of 1914, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley is having a love affair with the British Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, who writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state. Amid a leak of top secret documents, suddenly what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security.
In this collection of real-life stories, we meet the forgotten Irish men and women who took a stand against Nazi occupation in Europe.
