Bailiúchán: 10 Day Short Loan

In her second collection, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past, and it is against this landscape that the stories so beautifully articulate all the yearnings of the human heart.

What if the only way you could prevent a murder was by confessing to it? Jemma Stelling has confessed to a murder. She is the police's lead suspect. She couldn't have committed the crime. She has an unshakeable alibi: at the time of Marianne Cass's brutal murder, Jemma was at the police station, ...

The Brookes are gathering in their 18th-century ancestral home to bury Philip, head of the family. Frannie, inheritor of many acres of English countryside, has dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to nature: a last line of defence against the coming climate catastrophe. Milo envisages a t...

Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Tudor Grove, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognises. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare. As ne...

Maddie James has arrived in Daybreak Island, just off the coast of Massachusetts, eager to settle down and start her own business - and maybe even fall in love. When a stray orange tabby pounces into her life, she's inspired to open a cat cafe. But little does Maddie know that she's in for someth...

Wyatt Riggins, the boyfriend of rising Maine artist Zetta Nadeau, has gone missing, leaving behind a cell phone containing a single-word message: RUN. Private investigator Charlie Parker is hired to find out why Riggins has fled, and from whom. Parker discovers that Riggins, an ex-soldier, has be...

On 20th January 2001, after nearly 30 years in politics - 8 of as President of the United States - Bill Clinton was suddenly a private citizen. Only 54 years old, full of energy and ideas, he wanted to make meaningful use of his skills, his relationships with world leaders, and all he'd learned i...

Cleopatra, Egyptian Princess, grows up the favoured daughter of the Pharoah, hiding amongst the scrolls in the great library of Alexandria with her beloved slave Charmian, longing for the chance one day to write her own story. Then, when her father dies, willing that Cleopatra rule with her selfi...

Chief of the intelligence service, Diana Taverner, doesn't appreciate threats. So, when a team involved in a double-agent operation during the height of the Troubles are threatening to expose the truth and lay bare the dark side of state security, Taverner turns this blackmail into an opportunity...