• The Telegram – a Short Story for Armistice Day

    Ireland, 1914 Bill Ryan was my eldest brother. He was a popular lad with a ready smile, always up for mischief. At twelve years of age, I looked up to him and adored him, as did my younger brother David and little George who was only three. Our universe was a tiny part of County…

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  • Originally posted on Unusual Fiction : Pam Lecky, is not only a good friend and fellow author, she also shares my love for the humble ghost story, writing a great, short piece of fiction is quite the art ,and a ghost story always has a little gothic around the edges. Here, Pam discusses one of…

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  • It’s Publication Day for Her Secret War!

    I am so thrilled to share the news that my new release is out in the world today. Her Secret War is the first of two books based around a young Irish girl, Sarah Gillespie. Sarah is the only one of her family to survive the North Strand bombing in May 1941 which kills 28…

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  • I have great pleasure in announcing that Fiona Hogan’s new release is now available. Fiona and I met a few years ago at a bizarre book fair down in Waterford. As survivors of that event, (yes, it was that weird!) we have clung together for support as we have dipped our toes into the publishing…

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  • A reunion weekend, a repeated crime, a fresh outcome: Lois Stone heads back to Toronto to visit friends for Thanksgiving weekend. When she interrupts a vicious mugging in the park where her husband was attacked and died, she vows to catch the assailant and return a treasured keepsake to the elderly victim.  Buy Link: https://books2read.com/u/3RJDoL…

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  • A Conversation with Dominic Fielder

    Today in the Library we have ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Dominic Fielder who has dropped in to say hello and to share some insights into his life as an author. You are very welcome, Dominic, please introduce yourself: I’ve held a variety of working posts, some I’ve been good at, and others appalling. Before the world of Marvel and…

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  • New Release from Annie Whitehead

    The Sins of the Father  (Release date Sep 15th, on pre-order now): http://mybook.to/TSOF A father’s legacy can be a blessing or a curse…AD658: The sons of Penda of Mercia have come of age. Ethelred, the youngest, recalls little of past wars while Wulf is determined to emulate their father, whose quest to avenge his betrayed kinswomen…

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  • New Release from Betty Walker

    WARTIME WITH THE CORNISH GIRLS (Avon Books UK) 1941. The Blitz rages over London. And even in Cornwall, the war is being fought…. When Violet loses her sister in the Blitz, she must take her nieces to safety in Cornwall. On the coast, she meets carefree chorus girl Eva, who is also running from the…

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  • Going to the Flicks in 1941

    Like most young people in the forties, my heroine, Sarah Gillespie, in Her Secret War, is obsessed with cinema and spends all of her hard-earned, but meagre wages, on film tickets and cinema magazines such as Picturegoer Weekly. The world she sees on the silver screen is very different to her life and feeds her…

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