'Calloway Falls' by Joyce Murphy
'Calloway Falls' by Joyce Murphy - An adult dark urban fantasy read!
About the book: The key to the multiverse is missing! During this great threat to all creation, Calloway Falls, a small town in North Dakota is cut off from the rest of the world, and nobody can get in or out. As the residents are pitted against each other, River, a displaced outcast, makes a pack with darkness to find the missing key.
Inside the trapped town, Pam Barrett is living a fake life. But as her society crumbles, Pam sees the secrets of her past unravel, exposing vulnerabilities she hoped would remain hidden. When River, posing as her husband's cousin, meets Pam and forms a connection with her lonely son Danny, everything changes.
But the dark architect of the town's isolation has only ninety days to find the key and unleash terror on the multiverse. Will River choose to ditch his dubious allies and remember his true purpose and will Pam find the courage to embrace a startling revelation?
Fast-paced urban fantasy about two unlikely heroes who are thrust into a battle to save our world and all others.
Price: €15.99
'Misery Rock' By the late Billy McLellan
'A story of survival at sea and stormy relationships on land'.
Published 2024.
Billy passed away on the 21st July, 2024. Billy who was born in Fethard, Co. Tipperary was a well-known radio presenter in Clonmel. His working life was centred on media and desktop publishing. His favourite pastimes were dinghy sailing and kayaking.
Billy had gifted local actress Peg Power a copy of his book and Peg had chosen to read the first chapter of the book as part of our Heritage Week 'Radio Carrick' 1980s installation...to give us a flavour of her Radio Programme on Radio Carrick 1980-1981...when she used to read extracts from books daily...which the Community loved...they tuned in daily to hear Peg and find out the next part of the story.
This recording were especially recreated for our 2024 Heritage Week Project...and we would like to share it with you, to give you a taste of Billy's book 'Misery Rock'...it is so lovely listening to Peg's voice telling a story....
If you would like to find out what happens, then pop into the Hub and pick up a copy, €12.
It is a short read, just 110 pages.
This book was launched October 2024 in Fethard - Nationalist article.
The Big House - book one of the Emancipist, by Veronica Geoghegan Sweeney
Three months on the Irish Bestseller List when it was first on bookstands in 1985, The Emancipist went on to be published world-wide in many editions, including those by Simon and Schuster, Bantam Books, HarperCollins, etc. It has been set reading in schools, colleges and universities for the well-researched and atmospheric depiction of life for Irish farmers before and during the Great Famine and of life for those affected by the subsequent Irish diaspora to Australia.
This is the first part of this massive and far-reaching work, though as a novel it stands alone in its depiction of an Irish way of life that was swept away, in a few short years, affecting the lives of millions. It is also the first edition to be designed, printed and produced in Ireland.
‘The hero of this massive first novel set in 19th century Ireland and Australia is like the story itself – fiery-spirited, credible, compelling. This saga captures, through the lives of Aidan’s family, friends, associates and enemies, the horrors of rural Ireland in the 1840s and the vigor of youthful Australia. Sweeney’s grasp of social history is as authentic as her portrayal of human passion; she is clearly a novelist to watch. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates.’
The book was launched in Brewery Lane Theatre in 2015
Learn more about the Author here
Price: €15
'The Calling of John Fitzcanty' by Declan Jones
On the day before his sixth birthday John Fitzcanty meets Gerry, a man whose actions will haunt John for the rest of his life. As he grows into a young man, John struggles to understand his feelings of guilt and shame. Unable to talk to his taciturn father, he is drawn instead to the comfort and isolation of Faircliff Hall Seminary. There, he takes refuge in his faith and throws himself into his studies to become a priest, convinced he can escape the ghost of his past. But at Faircliff Hall John discovers a world more confusing than comforting. Questionable practices and dubious attitudes abound. There are secrets that no one will speak about. John begins to doubt his vocation, and when he discovers that there is evil at play in the Church’s youth ministry, he is forced to confront the past he has buried and examine the dark underbelly of Catholic morality. At turns both charming and challenging, The Calling of John Fitzcanty is a masterful coming-of-age story that explores how power can corrupt, control and leave us questioning not just our intentions, but our very identities.
About the Author: Declan Jones was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. He was ordained a priest and spent time as a Franciscan friar. After struggling with many aspects of religious life he left to pursue a career with NGOs working both in Ireland and abroad. In recent years he has studied creative writing at The Faber Academy, Dublin and published a number of short stories. This is his first novel.
Price: €10
'The Fields of Athenry' by T. L. Metalman (the late Thomas Lyons)
The Fields of Athenry is a love story set in the Irish famine times and tells of a young woman’s search for fulfilment in love and happiness in life. She encounters on that quest, sadness and joy to eventually find what she is longing for, true love.
It is a semi-fictional novel published in December 2019. Thomas originally from Carrick on Suir - relocated to Tramore. Thomas sadly passed away 12th April, 2023.
The Book price is €10, Half the proceeds of all books sales to Waterford Hospice
"My book ‘The Fields of Athenry’ is a love story set in the Irish famine times and tells of a young woman’s search for fulfilment in love and happiness in life. She encounters on that quest, sadness and joy to eventually find what she is longing for, true love in the arms of an unlikely hero called Michael.
This is a work of semi fiction and is loosely connected with the song ‘The field’s of Athenry’ sung by one ‘Paddy Reilly.’ The book is centred on the lives and loves of Irish people who might have existed during the nineteenth century. It must be remembered that the people of that era were hit by two major calamities within a six year period. The night of the big winds or hurricane, that occurred in January 1839 and the great hunger or Irish famine which happened just six years later from 1845-1850.
Although the characters in this book are fictional the hurricane and the Irish famine certainly are not. These two major events within a short space of time devastated the very lives of people who lived in mud cabins or cottages. The whole country of Ireland was left in an appalling state of devastation. Adding to this was the fact that Ireland was occupied by the forces of the English crown and our struggle for liberation.
The simple basic lives of people at that time really had no resistance to catastrophic events as we do today. It is hoped that the depiction of this love story will be to your liking and inform you of events during this time in Ireland. “Love is the power of feeling that concurs all and no evil or darkness can with stand it or its magical substance.” (Thomas Lyons, 2019).
This book is beautifully illustrated.
