"Love" by Roddy Doyle Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of drinking and storytelling in this winning new novel from the author of the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha One summer evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Drinking pals back in their youth, now married […]
Named Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year, 2017 Selected one of New York Times Readers’ Favorite Books of 2017 Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award From the beloved New York Times best-selling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war […]
"An Irishman's Story of Survival" by Jack Cashman About the event: Join us at the Maine Irish Heritage Center on Sunday, March 24th, from 1pm to 3pm for an author reading and discussion of "An Irishman's Story of Survival" with Jack Cashman. About the book: "Every life is a tapestry of challenges, with resilience as its […]
In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city’s high Catholic societyIt’s not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It’s the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down […]
Join us in the Maine Irish Heritage Center library on May 16th, at 7:30pm as we discuss "Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love." by Fergal Keane. After nearly three decades reporting conflict from all over the world for the BBC, Fergal Keane has gone home to Ireland to tell a story that lies at […]
The Gathering by Anne Enright The Gathering is a daring, witty, insightful family epic clarified through Anne Enright’s unblinking eye. It is a novel about love and disappointment, how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars. Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and […]
