<p><b>Chosen by Dublin City Council as their ''One Dublin One Book'' title for 2023. <br><br>''Just brilliant.'' </b>DONAL RYAN<br><br><b>''An exceptionally good book.''</b> C. J. SANSOM<br><br>1816 was the year without a summer. A rare climatic event has brought frost to July, and a lingering fog casts a pall over a Dublin stirred by zealotry and civil unrest, torn between evangelical and rationalist dogma.<br><br>Amid the disquiet, a young nursemaid in a pious household conceals a pregnancy and then murders her newborn. Rumours swirl about the identity of the child''s father, but before an inquest can be held, the maid is found dead. When Abigail Lawless, the eighteen-year-old daughter of Dublin''s coroner, by chance discovers a message from the maid''s seducer, she is drawn into a world of hidden meanings and deceit.<br><br>An only child, Abigail has been raised amid the books and instruments of her father''s grim profession. Pushing against the restrictions society places on a girl
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<b>“An engrossing, suspenseful family saga filled with unpredictable twists and turns.” —Chanel Cleeton, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Next Year in Havana</i></b><br><br><b>“With...
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. Based on true events that convulsed Victorian Ireland, The Convictions of John Delahunt is the tragic tale of a man who betrays his family, his friends, his society and, ultimately, himself.
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This volume describes the results of a series of archaeological excavations undertaken in advance of the construction of a new dual carriageway, some 32 km long, across Anglesey. Five main sites and a series of prehistoric burnt mounds are discussed.
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For better or worse, The Bee Gees' music and image has long been synonymous with the 1970s, and the career trajectory of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb in that ten-year span meanders between dizzying highs and devastating lows.
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