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Kristin Gleeson
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Philadelphia, The United States
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November 2011
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In Praise of the Bees (Women of Ireland #1)
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2015
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The Hostage of Glenorchy (Highland Ballad #1)
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2016
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The Mists of Glen Strae (Highland Ballad #2)
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2016
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The Braes of Huntly (Highland Ballad #3)
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2018
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Awakening the Gods (Rise of the Celtic Gods, #1)
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2021
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Song of the Bees (Women of Ireland #2)
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The Sea of Travail (Renaissance Sojourner #2)
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The Imp of Eye (Renaissance Sojourner #1)
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2015
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A Trick of Fate (Renaissance Sojourner #0.5)
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2015
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Along the Far Shores (Celtic Knot Series)
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2014
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Music As a Writing Muse
As a musician as well as a writer it seems like second nature to have music inform and surround my writing, not only when I think about my story, but when I write. And often it doesn’t stop just as background, but enters into my story and even influences, shapes and directs my story. And finally, I have created a page with a growing library of downloads of the music that I recorded which informs
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I love Hannah Kent’s writing. It’s beautifully crafted with a wonderful sense of place that engages as well as evokes. Her latest novel is no different, but with a twist in the plot this time that perhaps doesn’t quite succeed. Set in 1830s Prussia,
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| Thanks to Netgalley, the author and Dreamscape Media for a review copy of this audiobook. Kendall Ryan creates stories time and time again that are warm, wonderful and full of banter and humour that immediately has you at ease and immersed in their w ...more | |
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| Thanks to Netgalley and Bonnier Books for a review copy of this novel. Combining elements from many other fantasies, Odette creates a powerful unique story that is both compelling and tension filled. The characters are rich and complex and in many wa ...more | |
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| Thanks to Netgalley and Little Brown for a review copy of this novel. I always enjoy a Catherine Walsh novel. She captures a real picture of Ireland, not the stereotype, but a place full of real people with a quintessential humour I always appreciate ...more | |
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| Thanks to Netgalley and Harper Collins for a review copy of this novel. Powerful and moving are words that immediately come to mind when describing this novel. Though the setting, the Second World War lends itself to powerful novels it’s very much do ...more | |
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| Thanks to Netgalley and Quercus Books for a review copy of this novel. Engaging and with some light humour this is a story that is for a good escape read with plenty to absorb you. Connelly’s novels have a warm quality that give characters enough dep ...more | |
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| Thanks to HQ and Netgalley for a review copy of this novel. This the first time reading a B.K. Borison and after completing Good Spirits I can see why the author is so popular. The story is lovely, well constructed with plenty of humour and whimsy bu ...more | |
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| Thanks to Pan Macmillan and Netgalley for a review copy of this novel. Having read the previous book, The Courting of Bristol Keats I was happy to get an opportunity to read the second book. The premise, not uncommon, but still intriguing is a young ...more | |
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| Thanks to Netgalley and Orion for a review copy of this novel. Easily identifiable fantasy tropes aren’t part of Stephanie Garber’s novels. They have proven to have unique little angles, twists and turns that just make it a delight to read because it ...more | |
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| Thanks to Netgalley and Head of Zeus for a review copy of this book. I have read Shauna Lawless previous series of the Gael Song and enjoyed them very much. This offering, like the first, uses the concept of the descendants of the Tuatha de Danann an ...more | |
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| Thanks to Netgalley and Headline for a review copy of this book. I have read several of Louis Sachar’s books and used them in my teen bookclubs over the years and found they resonated with the book club members so well, especially the dialogue and pl ...more | |
“She is not the quiet, fearful Áine that graced our community and shadowed Siúr Sodelb. But neither is she the fierce, spirited and impulsive Cuimne that grew up motherless. Now she is something in between, but most assuredly a good woman.’ ‘She is a woman torn and a little bit afraid, that much I know.”
― In Praise of the Bees
― In Praise of the Bees
“Be thou my vision, beloved Lord: None other is aught but the King of the seven heavens Be thou my meditation by day and night; May it be thou that I behold forever in my sleep. Be thou my speech, be thou my understanding; Be thou for me; may I be for thee.”
― In Praise of the Bees
― In Praise of the Bees
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