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"An Irish mother faces her destiny in California as the acclaimed trilogy comes to an end—'a vibrant picture of American history in the mid-19th century' (Historical Novel Society).
With her two children, Gracelin O'Malley travels to post–Gold Rush San Francisco to meet the sea captain who has proposed marriage to her. But when she arrives, he is nowhere to be found. Destitute in a city filled with gangs, disillusioned soldiers, and professional gamblers, Grace takes a position as a cook for one of the city's most prominent doctors—only to become caught up in a tangled web of blackmail and betrayal. Determined to make a secure life for her children and find her brother, Sean, Gracelin sets in motion a series of events that change the future of everyone around her, never dreaming that the man she thought she'd lost forever is still alive and determined to find his way back to her.
Dickensian in scope, with a full cast of riveting characters, Ann Moore's 'Til Morning Light is the stunning conclusion to the enthralling story of Gracelin O'Malley, a heroine for the ages."
"When Brogan, Werewolf of the Irish Filtiaran pack, is thrown through a portal into a new world, she finds Camber, a young woman being hunted. She risks everything to save her, and all she gets is a curt thanks. Which is a shame, because when Brogan looks in her eyes, her senses explode. Then Camber jumps through a portal and disappears, and Brogan must follow her. Maybe this woman could help her find her way home.
Camber has been running since she was ten years old. Born a Map Keeper, she holds the power to find portals, and this magic is very valuable to many worlds.
When a malevolent group of paranormals, who seem to have inspired the Celtic God myths, band together to destroy her, Camber and Brogan come to an uneasy truce. Brogan will help protect Camber, and Camber will help her find her way back to Earth. But as secrets are shared and their hearts begin to beat as one, will Brogan find she is closer to home than thinks?"
"A nurse. A murderer. A choice no one should have to make.
Beth Cronin has spent years trying to outrun the night her mother was killed. Her family shattered, she grew up with a father locked in grief and an unrelenting demand for justice. Now a nurse in a busy Dublin hospital, Beth has built a life around caring for others.
Then Gerald Hughes, the man convicted of her mother's murder, is wheeled into the hospital where she works. Weak. Defenseless. And at her mercy.
As her father pushes for answers, a social worker circles with uncomfortable questions, and Beth's job hangs in the balance, she starts to spiral between duty and vengeance. She has spent her entire career saving lives . . . yet now she stands at the biggest moral crossroads of her life. Because for the first time, the power to change everything is in Beth's hands.
But when justice and revenge collide, which voice do you trust? And what happens if you cross a line you can never come back from?
Under Her Care is a tense, morally charged thriller about guilt, grief, and the terrifying choices we hope we never have to make, perfect for fans of Liz Nugent and Ashley Audrain."
"An Irish mother must flee her beloved homeland for a new life in America, in the 'gripping' second novel of the acclaimed historical trilogy (Publishers Weekly).
Forced to flee Ireland, Gracelin O'Malley boards a coffin ship bound for America, taking her young daughter with her on the arduous transatlantic voyage. In New York, Gracelin struggles to adapt to a strange new world and to the harsh realities of immigrant life in a city teeming with crime, corruption, and anti-Irish prejudice. As she tries to make a life for herself and her daughter, she reunites with her brother, Sean . . . and a man she thought she'd never see again. When her friendship with a runaway slave sweeps her into the volatile abolitionist movement, Gracelin gains entrée to the drawing rooms of the wealthy and powerful. Still, the injustice all around her threatens the future of those she loves, and once again, she must do the unthinkable.
This sweeping novel of the Irish immigrant experience in 1840s America brings a long-ago world to vibrant life and continues a remarkable heroine's bold, dramatic journey through extraordinary times."
"Carrie Jade is a chilling true-crime account of Samantha Cookes, a master manipulator who spent more than a decade reinventing herself across the UK and Ireland with an arsenal of false identities. From au pair and nanny to therapist, teacher, psychologist, even terminally ill author and influencer, she slipped into families’ homes and lives with devastating ease.
Behind the charm lay a trail of fraud, deception and fear. A surrogacy scam. Vulnerable families exploited. Communities left shattered. And at the heart of the story, a baby who died in mysterious circumstances - a death that would haunt Samantha as she fled across borders and changed identities to evade scrutiny. Each reinvention brought new victims, until her most audacious lie, a fabricated terminal illness broadcast on radio and TikTok, triggered an online reckoning that finally joined the dots.
Drawing on new and revelatory material, including firsthand testimony from those deceived, Carrie Jade exposes how systemic failures in childcare, professional regulation and social support allowed a con artist to thrive. It is a visceral portrait of psychological manipulation with an unsettling question at its core: how well do we really know the people we trust with our children?"
"Set during Ireland's devastating potato famine, a spellbinding novel of a young woman torn between love for her family and duty to her English husband.
Patrick O'Malley names his newborn daughter Gracelin for the light of the sea that shines in her eyes. But when young Gracelin is only six years old, her mother's untimely death drains joy and laughter from the O'Malley clan.
At fifteen, Gracelin saves her family from financial ruin by marrying Bram Donnelly, the son of a wealthy English landowner. But, even though Gracelin is Protestant, she is snubbed by English high society for marrying above her station. To temporarily appease her husband's cruel nature, she intends to provide him with an heir—but that, too, will end in sorrow.
As famine sweeps Ireland, Gracelin openly defies her husband by feeding the desperate souls who come to their door. In secret, she also sides with the rebels who call themselves the Young Irelanders. Led by Morgan McDonagh and joined by Gracelin's beloved brother, Sean, the Irelanders are determined to fight and free their homeland from the yoke of English rule."
"'I've never felt so at home in all my life. Ireland isn't just in my blood; it's in my heart. But I was mistaken if I thought this safe haven could erase my past . . . '
When Marian Fleury finds a love letter hidden in her husband Theo’s belongings, her heartbreak puts her on the first plane to Ireland. With her sister Claire's wedding only a week away, she has the perfect excuse to escape to the Irish coast and decide where her future truly lies . . .
Marian is shocked by how quickly she adjusts to the beautiful sandy shores, shopping for dresses and collecting roses for the perfect wedding bouquet. As the ocean sparkles before her, the wind soft against her face, she manages to keep the pain Theo has caused her a secret and remembers that as a little girl she always wanted Ireland to be her home.
Yet just as Marian thinks her past is behind her, Theo arrives in town. He begs for her forgiveness, his handsome face and olive skin making her heart race like always, and suddenly she wonders if he might start afresh in the village with her.
But when she stumbles upon the woman her husband was sending letters to, in a beautiful cottage among the wildflowers, Marian learns that Theo has an even bigger secret. Can Marian find the strength to take the next steps in her own life, or is she about to lose everything?"
"In the darkest days of war, can she find a place to call home?
1939: When tragedy strikes in the East End of London, thirteen-year-old Ivy Connell and her little brother Fred find themselves orphaned. Holding Fred’s small hand, she knows she must keep him safe. So Ivy decides to leave the bombed-out streets of the city in search of the Irish village her Daddy used to tell her so many stories about.
Somehow, she’s going to get them both to Ireland…
Ivy’s heard so much about the pretty village where her Mammy and Daddy fell in love. She hopes she might find her parents’ family still living there and a home away from the bombs. On the dangerous journey, they meet other orphans – bold and adventurous Lenny Brown and clever, talkative Arthur – and they travel together across the war-ravaged country.
The friendship between the children deepens with each obstacle they overcome, and they hold onto the hope that one day they will find a place to call home.
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But will Ivy be able to reach the safety of Ireland? And if she makes it there, will she be reunited with her long-lost family – or is there more heartbreak to come?**
From bestselling author Sandy Taylor, comes a heart-wrenching, emotional story of the power of friendship and the importance of hope in the most difficult times. Perfect for fans of Jean Grainger, Lisa Wingate and Diney Costeloe."
"Bloomsbury presents The Red Mouth by Sheila Armstrong, read by Aoife McMahon
'An absolute tour de force ... One of the most powerful writers at work today' COLIN WALSH
'When the book burners knock on your door, this is one to hide in the flour barrel' ANNIE PROULX
'I’ll read almost anything in sentences so finely made' SARAH MOSS
'Songlike in its beauty ... A work of uncanny power and great depth' LOUISE KENNEDY
From a rising star in literary fiction comes a story of two discoveries made deep in an Irish bogland, threading together four lives across time.
When a dog finds a strange, alien antler in a restored bog, the owner’s first thought is to keep it for himself. But when he realises the value of his find, he is drawn back to the rich peat to keep searching. It is not one stag skeleton that is buried there, but dozens – an ancient dying ground of the Great Irish Elk.
Other things have surfaced from the bog: prehistoric settlements, bronze cauldrons, ancient butter, iron weapons – and the mutilated body of a two-thousand-year-old female. Fifty years ago, a young archaeologist named her Belroe Woman, and dedicated his life to telling the story of her sacrificial death.
While state and public treat the bog body as a national treasure, others must reckon with its otherworldly influence over their lives: the peat-cutter who first unearthed her and carries this discovery like a curse; the archaeologist’s daughter who grows up in the shadow of the bog’s strange magnetism; and the young environmental scientist whose work draws her back to where it all began.
Haunting and lyrical, The Red Mouth - an béal rua - is the story of two discoveries and the four strangers who become intertwined in their wake. The deep time of the bog is both mystical and sinister: those bound to it must decide what to bury - and what to unearth. C 2026 Sheila Armstrong P 2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC"
"A mysterious woman appears nightly at the bedside of a prince and sings to him until he falls sick with love for her. A determined hero tracks his beloved through several incarnations, struggling to win her back. A young warrior seeks a woman who turns into a swan. These are the plots of little-known, anonymous tales composed over a thousand years ago in the monastic libraries of Ireland. In poetry and prose, they tell us what happens when human and supernatural lovers cross the boundaries between our world and the Otherworld (síd). Set in a lost time of heroes, demi-gods, warrior queens, and otherfolk of the Irish Otherworld (áes síde), these stories inspired some of the earliest fairy tales of France and England. What is more, they are sexier, funnier, and bloodier than better-known medieval myths and romances.
In Otherworld, historian and novelist Lisa M. Bitel offers lively retellings of these Irish original myths using her expertise in Irish history and literature to guide modern listeners. She traces themes and characters that link the nine magical tales, explains customs and locations, and brings out the humor. Like all storytellers—whether medieval or modern, performers or scribes—Bitel interprets the originals as she leads her listeners over the boundary of reality to the Otherworld."
"‘Deeply moving and necessary’ ANNE ENRIGHT
‘A must-read’
iPAPER
‘Original and heart-warming’ LINDSEY HILSUM
‘Remarkable … the perfect antidote to our times’ CHRISTINA LAMB
From the Orwell Prize-winning author of My Fourth Time, We Drowned comes a powerful account of human resilience, capturing our capacity for love and connection against all odds.
We live in an era defined by crisis – whether it be war and displacement, or climate collapse and rapidly widening inequality. Acclaimed international correspondent Sally Hayden has spent her career covering some of the darkest moments of our time, and yet even in the face of unimaginable adversity, she’s witnessed the love and care of everyday people.
Hayden introduces us to a couple separated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a mother in northeast Nigeria who risks everything to save her daughter from forced marriage to Boko Haram militants. We meet a group of Syrian women searching tirelessly for their missing spouses and children, while launching a call for justice, and learn about letters from the bereaved to the dead, still being written over a decade after the tsunami that devastated Japan.
In stories that crisscross the globe, from Uganda to Lebanon, Rwanda to Iraq, Hayden asks us: what if news was recounted through the actions people take for those they love? Would it become harder to dehumanise those who seem different to us? This is Also a Love Story dares us to recognise how love can be found in even the most difficult of times, and to question what might be needed to create a better world.
‘Moving … Hayden is an excellent journalist’
SUNDAY TIMES
‘Beautiful, painful and in many ways restorative … I recommend it highly’ MARIAN KEYES, author of My Favourite Mistake
‘A beautiful meditation on love … [Hayden] is our most vital journalist’
IRISH TIMES
‘Shows us that in the midst of war, around the most acute suffering, there is also tremendous heroism’ NATHAN THRALL, author of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
‘A reporter of the first order … A searching, deeply moving work’ JONATHAN BLITZER, author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
‘Hayden uncovers miracles. She may be one herself’ ALEX PERRY, author of Blood Will Flow"
"'Coughlan is one of those crime writers whose books transcend the genre, vividly recreating the atmosphere of a period of social turmoil.' THE TIMES
The new atmospheric mystery from the author of the acclaimed Where They Lie, and a beautifully written tale about one woman's need to find the truth, whatever the cost.
Dublin, summer 1970. Nicoletta Sarto is juggling work as the women's editor at the Irish Sentinel with twin baby girls at home. When she's approached by a barrister, Louise Leonard, whose aunt has just died, she's drawn into a story that could have dangerous consequences. Was Helen Leonard murdered, as her niece thinks? And who was the mysterious nurse who has now vanished, but to whom Helen left everything?
As Nicoletta investigates, she has to fight not only her own family's disapproval of her being a working mother, but also society's.
And as she slowly unpicks the mystery of Helen Leonard's death, she's unaware that danger lurks around every corner…
PRAISE FOR WHERE THEY LIE, SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR:
'A thrillingly dark and atmospheric tale, richly evocative of its time' JOHN BANVILLE
'Gripping and brilliantly atmospheric, and Nicoletta Sarto, the novel's protagonist – the way she talks, the way she thinks – is a great invention' RODDY DOYLE
'Atmospheric and absorbing, an ambitious young journalist finds herself at the heart of a corkscrew tale she never knew existed. A dark and turbulent journey to unexpected truths' VAL McDERMID"
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