Mike Farragher has just released his fifth book, 9 Rooms in Ballyglunin, a collection of short works of fiction set in a B&B in the rural west of Ireland.

Fiona Burke walks away from a lucrative career in law to pursue her dream of opening a bed and breakfast on her estate in Ballyglunin. Each guest inhabiting the 9 Rooms in Ballyglunin checks in at a crossroads in their life and they lean on this mighty Irish woman during their times of intense loss, uncertainty, and rebirth. Fiona carries a dark secret of her own along the way and none of the guests are prepared for what happens next.

‘Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.’ -Lee Child

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50 Shades O’Green

Veteran Irish American entertainment write Mike Farragher returns with This Is Your Brain on Shamrocks 2: 50 Shades o’Green, the second in a series of essay books with a ribald look at life, faith, an Irish mother’s guilt, culture and family.

What if you came out of church one Sunday morning and a devilish character was leaning on the hood of the car waiting to take you to your favorite Irish pub so that he can tell you how life really works? That’s just one of the scenarios in “A Devilish Pint,” a collection of short stories and personal essays that provides a provocative and funny challenge to everything you know about faith, family, and life.