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Marita Conlon-McKenna
The long-awaited new children's book from Ireland's beloved storyteller, bestselling author of Under the Hawthorn Tree, Marita Conlon-McKenna.
When Anna is sent to stay with her dad at Fairy Hill…
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This edition published in agreement with The O'Brien Press, Ltd. –T.p. verso.
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It’s hard to pretend that everything is normal when your whole life has been turned upside down & Four children come to terms with their mother’s sudden departure.
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The wide open spaces of Connemara are lost to Esther Doyle when she is impregnated and betrayed by her lover. She is sent to join the ‘fallen women’ of the…
Everything changes for kate, Moya and Romy when they receive word that Maeve Dillon, their mother, is critically ill. It’s time to return to Dunmore and the old stone house…
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With three bright, beautiful daughters who are still single Maggie decides that a little romantic matching is needed. However matchmaking is not as easy as it seems and Maggie’s quest…
Alice loves to cook. She believes the secret of good food is to cook with passion. Her love affair with cookery began in her parent’s seaside hotel, followed by her…
That was the start of it all… As word of her healing spreads, Martha’s life and the lives of those around her are radically altered. Hounded by the media and…
Inheritance changes everything, as Ella Kennedy soon discovers when her father dies and the hundred-acre farm she has grown up on and run for years in the Wexford countryside is…
Everyone knows that Amy and Dan are made for each other. So when they announce their engagement their families are over the moon, especially Amy’s mother Helen. What could be…
Kate Cassidy is about to celebrate twenty five years of marriage to Paddy. There is no escaping the past. Kate, Erin and Nina all have to come to terms with…
But as she finds herself drawn to the old neglected and overgrown walled rose garden and the dilapidated gardener’s cottage attached, shesuddenly sees a future as shedecides to restore them…
Esther Doyle is a young Irish girl growing up in a small fishing community in Connemara in the 1950s. Her life is a stable one, bound by the slow rhythms…
Marita Conlon-McKenna’s Children of the Famine series brings to life as never before the Great Famine of 1840s Ireland and the immigrations that followed.
When Bella Blackwell moves in next door, life takes a frightening and thrilling turn for Mia. Her brother and granny don’t trust The Bird Woman , and when she disappears…
The No.1 bestselling novel of the Great Irish Famine from one of Ireland’s most beloved writers Ireland’s hopes for freedom are dashed with the arrival of a deadly potato blight…
The orphanage is the only home Blue has ever known. She is desperate to find out who she really is. The closed file in stern Sister Regina’s office holds the…
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With the threat of the First World War looming, tension simmers under the surface of Ireland. Bright, beautiful and intelligent, the Gifford sisters Grace, Muriel and Nellie kick against the…
Thirteen-year-old Anna is upset when she is sent to stay with her dad and his new family at Fairy Hill in the west of Ireland. Hearing whispers in the wind…
A film treatment of Marita Conlon-McKenna’s acclaimed novel, which brilliantly recreated the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s through the story of three young survivors. Produced by Young Irish Filmmakers…
In the mid-nineteenth century, thirteen-year-old Peggy O'Driscoll sets out alone from Ireland for America, hoping to make a better life for herself.
The final book in the famine trilogy For Eily, Michael and Peggy the memory of the famine is still strong. But Mary-Brigid, Eily’s first child, has the future to look…
Upbrims, sidesweeps, silks, ribbons and trims all become part of Ellie’s life when she inherits the little hat shop on Dublin’s South Anne Street. But the city is changing and…
Everything changes for Kate, Moya and Romy when they receive word that Maeve, their mother, is critically ill. They return from Dublin, London and New York to Rossmore and the…
Martha MacKenzie was an ordinary woman. Nothing extraordinary had ever happened to her - until the day of the accident, when she touched the Lucas boy as he lay dying…
Alice loves to cook. She believes the secret of good food is to cook with passion. Her love affair with cookery has taken her from her parents’ seaside hotel, to…
Sophie and Hugh are left homeless when their house is bombed during the London Blitz. Their mother is seriously injured and their Dad is away fighting, so the children are…
