Last novel read for #ReadingIrelandMonth25 & #EdnaObrien25 and it's a masterpiece. 💙📚

Collage of book covers for March reading. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn The Home scar by Kathleen MacMahon Academy Street by Mary Costello The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black The Camomile by Catherine Carswell Vittoria Cottage by D E Stevenson Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto.

March was a pretty good month of reading 8 books in total. Stand out reads The Salt Path and Frenchman's Creek. 3 books read for #ReadingIrelandmonth25 . 💙📚 Full list in alt text.

“Strange Flowers” by Donal Ryan – Book Review #DonalRyan @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #ReadingIrelandMonth25 #StrangeFlowers #BookReview #BookSky “You can change memories to suit yourself, to fit across the shapes of your wounds” This is the fourth time I’ve had the pleasure of reading Donal Ryan’s work, and once agai…

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“Strange Flowers” by Donal Ryan – Book Review #DonalRyan @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #ReadingIrelandMonth25 #StrangeFlowers #BookReview #BookSky "You can change memories to suit yourself, to fit across the shapes of your wounds" This is the fourth time I've had the pleasure of reading Donal Ryan's work, and once again I am struck by his empathy and deep, intrinsic understanding of human nature. I had the pleasure of touring Ireland this past spring, so the setting of "

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A Year with Edna O'Brien banner for Reading books by Edna O'Brien in 2025 an initiative by Cathy at 746 Books and Kim at Reading Matters.

“I wanted to write from as far back as I can recall. Words seemed and still seem an alchemy, and story the true conductor of life, of lives.”

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“The Coast Road” by Alan Murrin – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth25 #IrishFiction #AlanMurrin #TheCoastRoad @harpercollins.bsky.social #BookSky A beautifully written debut novel about three women who live in a small, coastal Irish town. Women in their mid forties who are married and have few options as they are living in a patriarchal soci…

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Twenty-Eight Books I’ve Read by Irish Authors #readingirelandmonth25 This post could just as easily be called ‘The One That Got Away’ because I really did start the month with the intention of participating in Reading Ireland Month hosted by Cathy at 746…

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House of Splendid Isolation by Edna O’Brien Back to the final days of Reading Ireland Month 2025, this week I slowly read Edna O’Brien’s political novel House of Splendid Isolation, the first of the Modern Ireland Trilogy, books …

For #ReadingIrelandMonth25 & A yr of reading #ednaobrien25 an author known to dig into social & religious issues deep in the fabric of Irish society

House of Splendid Isolation

Humans wronged who know not how to heal on a path from brief respite to destruction.

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Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn #readingirelandmonth25 Liadan Ní Chuinn’s debut short story collection, Every One Still Here, is published by The Stinging Fly – always a seal of approval and the mark of something interesting. Ní Chuinn offers six stori…

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“The Coast Road” by Alan Murrin – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth25 #IrishFiction #AlanMurrin #TheCoastRoad @harpercollins.bsky.social #BookSky A beautifully written debut novel about three women who live in a small, coastal Irish town. Women in their mid forties who are married and have few options as they are living in a patriarchal soci…

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Twenty-Eight Books I’ve Read by Irish Authors #readingirelandmonth25 This post could just as easily be called 'The One That Got Away' because I really did start the month with the intention of participating in Reading Ireland Month hosted by Cathy at 746 Books. However, a combination of lack of time, poor planning and the call of my garden meant I didn't manage to read the books by Irish authors I'd earmarked, such as…

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“The Coast Road” by Alan Murrin – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth25 #IrishFiction #AlanMurrin #TheCoastRoad @harpercollins.bsky.social #BookSky A beautifully written debut novel about three women who live in a small, coastal Irish town. Women in their mid forties who are married and have few options as they are living in a patriarchal soci…

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“The Coast Road” by Alan Murrin – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth25 #IrishFiction #AlanMurrin #TheCoastRoad @harpercollins.bsky.social #BookSky A beautifully written debut novel about three women who live in a small, coastal Irish town. Women in their mid forties who are married and have few options as they are living in a patriarchal soci…

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“The Coast Road” by Alan Murrin – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth25 #IrishFiction #AlanMurrin #TheCoastRoad @harpercollins.bsky.social #BookSky A beautifully written debut novel about three women who live in a small, coastal Irish town. Women in their mid forties who are married and have few options as they are living in a patriarchal soci…

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“The Coast Road” by Alan Murrin – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth25 #IrishFiction #AlanMurrin #TheCoastRoad @harpercollins.bsky.social #BookSky A beautifully written debut novel about three women who live in a small, coastal Irish town. Women in their mid forties who are married and have few options as they are living in a patriarchal soci…

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“The Coast Road” by Alan Murrin – Book Review #ReadingIrelandMonth25 #IrishFiction #AlanMurrin #TheCoastRoad @harpercollins.bsky.social #BookSky A beautifully written debut novel about three women who live in a small, coastal Irish town. Women in their mid forties who are married and have few options as they are living in a patriarchal society. Set during 1994/95, the time that Ireland voted on the right to divorce. Catholicism permeates the story and these people’s lives. Dolores Mullen…

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A beautifully written debut novel about three women who live in a small, coastal Irish town. Women in their mid forties who are married and have few…