Blackstaff Press imprint: 68 books

A moving saga that takes the reader to the very heart of a close-knit, fiery, loving family – perfect for fans of Maureen Lee, Mary Larkin and Pam Weaver. It’s 1941 and German bombs are falling on Belfast. Martha’s girls face danger, hardship and difficult decisions. Irene, the...

It’s Belfast, 1982, and an eighteen-year-old boy wearing Hai Karate aftershave has a date with destiny. He’s a real man now, so he is, and shaving twice a week. Following his successful career as a breadboy, he’s going where few people from the upper Shankill have boldly gone before: to university....

Rosaleen Magee has it all – a loving family, good looks and a handsome fiancé with his own thriving business. But then Sean Devlin turns up at the Falls Flax Factory, where Rosaleen works, and everything changes. She knows she should leave well alone, but what harm is there in one date before...

Leesa Harker’s fabulous Liverpool-based parody of 50 Shades tells of the adventures of White Lightning-swigging Maggie Muff, who meets Mr Big at the Dole Tall, dark and shaggable he may be, but his interests are far from conventional, and when he introduces Maggie to the Red Room of Pain she...

Looking for the definitive definitions of boke and eejit? Can you tell your Ginny-Anns from your Granny Mushes? This definitive guide to Northern Irish slang will have you talking like a native in no time. Maggie Muff is Belfast’s new heroine, the 21st-century answer to John Pepper. In this fantastic...

‘Man Donaghy crept silently around the back of the farmhouse and over the field to the faerie thorn. The thorn was shimmering as he knelt before it. Whispering directly to the roots of the tree, Man Donaghy said, “I want you to take Wife Donaghy.”’ Jane Talbot’s...

‘What can I tell you about Albert? He was very tall and thin and as bald as an egg. From a distance he wasn’t promising, but then he turned and looked at me. They could have heard my knees knocking in Ballymena.’ A chance encounter leads to unexpected romance...

This is the story of lovable Maggie Muff – an ordinary Glesga girl with attitude, looking for love, who thinks she knows what she wants in a man. She is called in by the Dole and meets Mr Big, who is talk, dark, handsome, and gorgeous in his chinos. He seems like the man of her dreams,...

The first instalment in Maggie Muff’s escapades – and the smash-hit bestseller. Well. Lis is a wee story about me an Mr Red White and Blue. Sure didden I meet him down in le Bru on a back-til-work interview. He was tall, dark an bucksome – an he was gorgiz in lem chinos. So nie if ye...

Nobady puts Maggie Muff in le corner - the sequel to Fifty Shades of Red White and Blue Well. It all started when Big Sally-Ann announced what she wanted for her fortieth birthday. Nat satisfied wih le two-man tent I gat her for doggin up Black Mountain, she wanted til do le last dance from...

Guess who’s back? - The final instalment in the Fifty Shades of Red White and Blue trilogy Well. It all started when Big Sally-Ann’s da won big at le bookies. Sure I coaxed him intil fundin a wee feg run for me an le big girl. Speculate til accumulate an all! So, off we tratted til Benidorm....

'If we win today, for the rest of our lives we'll be blood brothers. Nobody can do it for us. We are the twenty-two players who can go out there and create history.'  Stuart Duncan In 1999, Ulster – whose squad included builders, students and lorry drivers, as well as professional...