By Denyse Woods and Denyse Devlin
Denyse Woods largely writes travel fiction and, given her long-standing fascination for the Middle East, has written a trio of novels set in the Arab world. Her most recent novel, Of Sea and Sand, celebrates the landscapes and lore of Oman; Like Nowhere Else is a love letter to Yemen; and Overnight to Innsbruck is a travel thriller set in Egypt and Sudan. In her short collection, Indian Pacific and other travels, Denyse again revisits deserts. Setting and travel are also centre-stage in Denyse Devlin novels, where the characters can never stay still for long and love keeps landing on the wrong shoulders and in the wrong place. But Ireland is the true soul in Denyse’s work, be it Woods or Devlin on the cover.
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Gabriel Sherlock arrives in Oman in 1982, fleeing shame and disaster back home in Ireland, and begins an intense affair with a woman whom no one else can see. Locals insist she must be a jinn—a supernatural being—but Gabriel refuses to buy into the folklore, even after her sudden, alarming disappearance. Twenty-six years later, Irishwoman…
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On an overnight train to Innsbruck, ex-lovers Richard and Frances meet by chance – four years after their mysterious separation on a train journey through the vast expanses of the Sudanese desert. They tell their separate stories of fear, confusion and loss, trying to unravel the truth of what happened – and confronting the bitter…
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‘For over an hour, I watched Australia go by. I didn’t want Kath to come knocking, I didn’t want breakfast. Only to stay there, undisturbed, with the red earth." Indian Pacific, the title story of this short collection of fiction and non-fiction, is a love letter to travel, trains and Australia. The Indian Pacific is…
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In the run-up to the second Gulf War, Irishwoman Vivien Quish arrives in the mystical city of Sana’a, hoping to redeem her ruined dream of being a great traveller. The last thing she needs is to become embroiled in a passionate affair, but she is drawn into an impossible liaison with anthropologist Christian Linklater, in…
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Just when she has resigned herself to being alone long-term, Marina ffrench, a widow in her forties, meets Luke Delahunt in Morocco and falls in love all over again. A midlife relationship, she thinks, will be straightforward ― kids reared, careers established, mortgages almost paid off…. However, midlife passion carries excess baggage. Luke may have…
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When Jude is orphaned at fourteen, her father’s best friend comes to the rescue. Oliver wants to remain her friend as well as her guardian, but spirited Jude isn’t a girl you can shelter from the world – not after she’s already suffered so much loss. And with each passing year, both Jude and Oliver…
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Kadie Kingston is in flight and in pursuit. For reasons known only to herself, she is running from Milenko, the glorious Croatian she was due to marry, and she is chasing her best friend, who has fled their hometown of Cork to avoid facing sudden crushing grief. Misunderstandings and missed messages see Kadie hauling her…
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