Constance Mwayuli: Ireland's Bold New Thriller Author

Tired of thrillers you can predict by chapter three? Constance Mwayuli writes the kind you can’t. Based in Ireland and published by Ireland Publishing House, Mwayuli is the debut author behind Homecoming, a novel that pulls a Bronze Age hillside, a NASA data lab, a Jerusalem monastery, and a family surviving war in Gaza into a single, converging story.

This is fiction built on real disciplines, archaeology, theology, data science, and intelligence work, not invented mythology

One author. One book. Three timelines. One impossible place.

If you’re looking for your next unputdownable read, you’ve found the right page.

Meet the Storyteller

Rewriting the Thriller Genre

Meet Constance Mwayuli, the Ireland-based fiction author whose debut novel, Homecoming, refuses to sit quietly inside one genre. Published by Ireland Publishing House, Homecoming is the work of a storyteller who treats research as seriously as she treats suspense, weaving archaeology, data science, theology, and modern geopolitics into a single narrative rather than leaning on invented lore.

Mwayuli’s own story is one of movement: a life built across different worlds before settling in Ireland, the country she now calls home. That sense of crossing thresholds, of arriving somewhere after a long, uncertain road, sits at the emotional centre of Homecoming, and it’s part of what gives her voice its distinct edge in a genre often crowded with formula.

She didn’t write this book in a vacuum, either. Homecoming took shape in close collaboration with Ireland Publishing House’s editorial team from its very first outline, a process Mwayuli describes as built on trust and shared vision. The result is a debut that reads with the confidence of a far more experienced novelist.

Learn more about Constance Mwayuli, her writing journey, creative process, and what inspires her fiction. Visit the About Constance Mwayuli page to explore her story.

Inside Homecoming

A Thriller That Spans 3,900 Years

1901 BCE, a hillside north of Jerusalem. A young woman named Athirat is drawing water at dusk when the ground beneath her shifts not from an earthquake, but something else entirely, something that leaves its mark on her and on the ancient oak tree above the well.

Three thousand years later, that same hillside starts sending out a signal

At NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, data scientist Rahul catches a structured 40 Hz pulse buried in satellite readings precise, repeating, impossible to explain away as noise. His colleague Catalina Alba spends a sleepless night confirming what he already suspects: this isn’t an echo. Something is producing it.

In Jerusalem, a monk named Anselm keeps two lives running in parallel: one of morning prayer and quiet compound routine, the other built around a vault, a tablet, and instructions he has guarded for nine years

In Beit Lahiya, Gaza, a father named Yousef clears blocked water channels, prays at dawn, and holds his family together one impossible day at a time, carrying a pull toward something he hasn’t yet found words for

Four threads. One hillside. A signal that has been waiting, patiently, for someone to notice it again.

Homecoming by Constance Mwayuli draws these strands together into a single, slow-building thriller where the discovery isn’t just archaeological, but personal, spiritual, and urgently modern.

Why Readers Can't Put Homecoming Down

Homecoming isn’t built on invented mythology; it’s built on research. Rahul’s detection tool, GEOMAPSE, behaves the way real geomagnetic mapping software behaves. The signal anomalies his team investigates are grounded in genuine principles of anomaly detection. The sealed chamber beneath the hillside, and the pre-Biblical tablet inside it, are imagined with the rigour an actual archaeological dig would demand. And Anselm’s double life inside a real category of religious-intelligence work gives the espionage thread a weight pure invention rarely achieves.

What sets the novel apart is how four real-world disciplines: data science, archaeology, theology, and intelligence work converge on one hillside, each thread arriving at the same impossible place from a completely different direction. Add Yousef’s story, grounded unflinchingly in the lived reality of Gaza, and Homecoming becomes something rarer than a typical thriller: a book willing to hold suspense and grief in the same hand.

As Catalina puts it partway through the novel, staring at data she cannot yet explain, it was never going to be simple.

This site, the Constance Mwayuli author website, is the definitive place to follow the book’s world, its themes, and what Mwayuli is working on next straight from the source

Who This Book Is For

Homecoming was written for readers who want more than one genre at a time:

Readers of archaeological thrillers: a discovery that shouldn't exist, sealed beneath a hillside in the West Bank.
Readers who love science-and-faith stories: where a data scientist's evidence and a monk's conviction are both taken seriously.
Spy fiction readers : for the quiet, controlled tension of a person keeping two lives in balance.
Biblical historical fiction readers: grounded in real geography and history, not fantasy, from its 1901 BCE opening page onward.

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Explore the World of Homecoming

Homecoming isn’t a single story so much as a convergence of them, and there’s more than one way in

If you’re here for the mystery beneath the hillside, the sealed vault, the pre-Biblical tablet, the crypt below a Jerusalem chapel where two scholars race to translate what it says, start with an archaeological thriller built on real dig-site logic and centuries of guarded secrecy

If it’s the collision of hard science and old faith that pulls you in a NASA data scientist chasing a signal that shouldn’t exist, a monk who has spent nine years guarding it, a physicist who won’t call anything a miracle until the data forces her hand you’ll want a science-and-faith thriller that treats both sides of that argument with equal respect.

Either doorway leads to the same hillside, the same signal, and the same question the whole novel asks: what happens when the past refuses to stay buried, and who decides what’s done with it once it surfaces?

Grounded in Real Research, Written From the Heart

Homecoming was published by Ireland Publishing House, and Constance Mwayuli lives and writes in Ireland. The novel’s four disciplines: data science, archaeology, theology, and intelligence work are treated as real fields with real methods, not decorative backdrops for a plot device.

Mwayuli built the book’s Gaza thread, in particular, from close attention to the lived texture of war: water infrastructure, displacement, and the weight of small daily choices under siege. The novel’s biblical-era prologue is set at a real historical site associated with Jacob’s dream of a ladder to heaven, and its contemporary science draws on genuine principles of geomagnetic and satellite data analysis.

What Early Readers Are Saying

“I went in expecting a straightforward thriller and got three timelines, a monk with a double life, and a family in Gaza I couldn’t stop thinking about. Didn’t see the connections coming.”

“If you like your thrillers grounded in real research instead of invented magic systems, this is for you. The science felt real, the history felt real, and somehow neither one slowed the story down.”

“I expected a mystery. I didn’t expect to be moved by Yousef’s chapters. This book asks more of you than most thrillers do, and it’s better for it.”

“Couldn’t put it down, couldn’t stop thinking about it after. Rare combination.”

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Frequently Asked Questions

Discover more about Constance Mwayuli, Homecoming, its story, research, and where to find the book.

Who is Constance Mwayuli?

Constance Mwayuli is an Ireland-based fiction author and the writer of Homecoming, a debut thriller published by Ireland Publishing House. Her work blends archaeology, data science, theology, and modern geopolitics into multi-timeline narratives, drawing on her own experience of crossing borders and building a new life abroad.

What is Homecoming by Constance Mwayuli about?

Homecoming follows four converging storylines: a Bronze Age well near Jerusalem, a NASA data scientist tracking an unexplained signal, a monk guarding an ancient vault, and a Gaza family surviving war — all pulled toward the same hillside and the mystery buried beneath it.

Where can I buy the Homecoming ebook in Ireland?

You can buy the Homecoming ebook and paperback directly through the Books page on this site, where current retailer links and available formats are listed for readers in Ireland.

What genre is Homecoming — thriller or historical fiction?

Homecoming sits across both genres. Its contemporary storylines carry the tension and momentum of a thriller, while its 1901 BCE prologue and biblical-era foundations give the novel a strong historical-fiction dimension.

Is Homecoming based on real science or real events?

The novel's use of geomagnetic signal detection, satellite data analysis, and archaeological methodology draws on real scientific principles and disciplines. The characters and central story are fictional, while the historical and geopolitical settings are informed by research.

Is Constance Mwayuli an Irish author?

Constance Mwayuli lives and writes in Ireland, and Homecoming is published by Ireland Publishing House. She can be described as an Ireland-based author, with themes of displacement and belonging playing an important role in her work.

Start Your Journey & Stories Into Homecoming Today

Homecoming is waiting on the other side of one link. Follow Rahul’s signal, walk the Beitin hillside with Athirat, sit with Anselm’s two lives, and hold your breath through Yousef’s story all in one converging novel from Constance Mwayuli.

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