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Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard review
You can run, but you can’t hide from the phantoms of the past Published by Atlantic Books€12.99 WHEN Adele Rafferty is offered the lead in a low-budget horror movie that is to be filmed in a remote part of West Cork, she can’t believe her luck. The former child-star of a beloved Irish soap opera, […]
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Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney review
Whatever is the matter with Daisy Darker? Published by Pan MacMillan€13.99 IN THE third book I’ve read this year that has clearly been inspired by Agatha Christy’s And Then There Were None, Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney subverts the central premise of a gathered group being picked off one by one and makes it something […]
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Isaac and the Egg by Bobby Palmer review
Grief is the thing with fur Headline Publishing Group€14.99 THE GRIPS of despair can manifest in many ways. For some it’s to lock themselves away, for others to act in full denial and yet more lash out in uncharacteristic ways. Isaac Addy’s way of coping is to contemplate life and death while standing on the […]
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Storm by Stephanie Merritt review
An unexpected guest wreaks havoc in this pacy thriller Faber & Faber€15.99 WHEN Jo Lawless arrives in France for her late husband’s best friends’ 21st wedding anniversary celebration, the worst she is expecting is awkward conversation and to feel out of place. The gathered company is rich and privileged, and her only relationship with them […]
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The Cliff House by Chris Brookmyre Review
Would you sacrifice a life to keep your secret? Published by LITTLE, BROWN€15.00 Anyone who’s ever been to a hen weekend will know that with excitement also comes some wariness. Will there be that one girl there who doesn’t know anyone else? Might your friend who is up to her eyes with work and kids […]
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The Amusements by Aingeala Flannery review
Life, love and death in the town of Tramore Penguin Random House€13.99 Every town has its share of characters, with hopes, dreams and aspirations ready to be fulfilled or that have never been realised. Some people look inward and quietly observe, others are the types that get noticed, for that certain je ne sais quoi […]
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Nine Lives by Peter Swanson review
What would you do if you made the list? Faber & Faber€12.99 THERE are two times of year during which the only books I want to read are twisty detective mysteries with well-paced plots that keep me turning the pages until my eyes refuse to stay open any longer. Settling in to toe-curling crimes safe […]
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TV Viewpoint: Not exactly Wild about Harry
JANE Seymour is many things to many people. Some may associate her with James Bond, others with romance films of the 70s and 80s, there will be a contingent who know her as a glamorous granny from bawdy 00s comedies and there will be a few wits who will refuses to believe she’s anything other […]
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TV Viewpoint: Stranger than fiction – when the Nazis came to Donegal
THE EXTRAORDINARY story of how a Nazi infiltrated a small community in Donegal under the guise of Celtic and linguistic research was presented last Wednesday as a special documentary on TG4. Ludwig Mühlhausen was a professor of Celtic Studies at Humboldt University, in Berlin. A keen linguist, he had learned the Irish language on a […]
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The Last to Disappear by Jo Spain reviw
Secrets can’t always stay buried in the frozen north PUBLISHED BY QUERCUS€16.99 A cold open takes on an entirely new meaning when it’s from the point of a woman fighting for her life on a frozen lake. The prologue follows her in her last moments of life, before she disappears beneath the surface. After her […]
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