NEW ISLAND BOOKS

(P/B) NOT A STAR
It's bad enough for a mother to discover that her son is a porn star, even worse when the nosy neighbors know first. When Lynn sees her son Mark in an adult film she is forced to ask many difficult questions. How well does she know her son? Where did he get his obvious talent? And how will she tell his father? There are some things a mother should never know?(From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE SECOND CHILD
Alison Clark returns home to her father’s house in rural Wexford with her movie star boyfriend, Nick. It’s the first time she’s been home in years. Her father does not approve of her boyfriend or her pregnancy and Alison’s mother is struggling to keep them from fighting. There is a lot of tension in the house. Will father and daughter ever make up?...
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(P/B) THE BUILDERS
The Builders by Maeve Binchy is a charming novella from a masterful writer on the power of family secrets. Nan Ryan lives by herself at 14 Chestnut Road. When builders arrive to fix a deserted house next door, everyone expects the worst. But when the handsome workman looks to Nan to help unravel the mystery of the previous residents’ disappearance, a strange relationship develops. With family dynamics and crooked developers in the wings, things are about to get very messy......
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(P/B) MAD WEEKEND
Dave, Pat and Ben have been best friends since they were kids. They do everything together, and they all love Liverpool football club. On a trip to see their favourite team in action, they have a few too many drinks before the match. Dave and Pat get busy chatting up two local girls. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) DOGS ENJOY THE MORNING
Dogs Enjoy the Morning is an uproarious novel full of weird and wonderful characters set in Cosmona, a fictitious village somewhere in Ireland... The doctor and his loving wife are secretly watched by Gabriel Rock, a one-eyed local Peeping Tom. A shell-shocked chaplain stalks through the village with his three hounds in tow, like Fionn MacCool. Nurse ‘Mouse’ Walters is seduced by the bed-bound Brother Lane. Teresa and Dympna, two young ones on the tear in Dublin, get mixed up with Amantha who specializes in robbing sailors. Cathy Hanafin c...
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(P/B) THE SMOKING ROOM
It all began one morning in the smoking room of the Department of Health and Welfare. That was where happily married Jack met the lovely Grace. At first smoking was all they had in common. But soon they were sharing a lot more. Love, as well as cigarette smoke, was in the air. But when Miriam, Jack’s wife, began to suspect that his feelings had changed everything became a lot more dangerous. Because Miriam was a woman who liked to get her own way, and this time she was playing to win....
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(P/B) THE PINKENING BOY