Joseph O'Connor

• Feb-2025
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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE ★ “Mesmerising, tragic, horrifying, utterly unputdownable... An outstanding read for fans of WWII fiction and of writers like Anthony Doerr.”—Emily Melton, Booklist (Starred Review) ...

• Feb-2023
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From best-selling author Joseph O'Connor comes a gripping and atmospheric World War II literary thriller set in occupied Rome. A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE Inspired by the true story of Monsignor ...

• Jun-2020
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A West End theater in London is shaken up by the crimes of Jack the Ripper in this novel by the New York Times -- bestselling author of The Star of the Sea. Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has in...

• Jul-2015
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At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist Sarah-Therese Sherlock and her twin brother Sean on drums, The Ships in th...

• Sep-2012
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'Everyone should try childcare with a hangover. Once.'Sean Hyland's wife has left him in Dublin for the weekend, home alone with their infant daughter and teenage son. He has never felt more middle aged... Figure in a Photograph is a tender, funny an...

• Apr-2012
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An original story from Joseph O'Connor, author of the #1 bestseller in Ireland, Ghost Light, a fictionalized account of the bittersweet love affair between the famously tortured playwright J.M Synge and Molly Allgood, a talented young actress from Du...

• Mar-2011
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Edited by Joseph O'Connor (author of Star of the Sea and Ghost Light) New Irish Short Stories is a stunning collection from a fascinating variety of writers, both new and established. Featuring, among many others, William Trevor and Roddy Doyle, Rebe...

• Feb-2011
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In 1907 Edwardian Dublin is a city of whispers and rumors. At the Abbey Theatre W. B. Yeats is working with talented John Synge, his resident playwright. It is here that the author of Playboy of the Western World and Juno and the Paycock will meet an...

• Jan-2011
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Inspector Martin Aitken's life is a mess. Divorced, his career's in chaos, and the last thing he needs this Christmas Even is a strange woman collapsed on a Dublin street. Ellen Donnelly is a woman on a mission, coming to Ireland to find her mother a...

• Jan-2011
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• Jun-2009
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From a prolific Irish author with insight into modern male behavior, a story of childhood that is both funny and sad. It is 1975 in a small town near Dublin. Starsky and Hutch rule the television screen, and, in Northern Ireland, bombs are going off....

• Aug-2008
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• Jun-2008
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True Believers introduces us to a world of characters stunning in their variety. Here are sad-hearted priests, old friends, young lovers, rockers and rebels. Here are runaway husbands and runaway wives. Here are jokers and fanatics, punks and poets, ...

• Oct-2007
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1865. The Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the Irish famine-ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, a daughter of its journey, Eliza Duane Mooney, sets out on foot from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, crossing a ravaged continent on a quest. Eliza ...

• 2002
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IN THE BITTER WINTER OF 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea sets sail for the New World. On board are hundreds of refugees. Among them are a maid with a devastating secret, the bankrupt Lord Merridith and his wife ...

• Jul-2001
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Roddy Doyle, Conor McPherson, Gene Kerrigan, Gina Moxley, Marian Keyes, Anthony Cronin, Owen O'Neill, Hugo Hamilton, Joseph O'Connor, Tom Humphries, Pauline McLynn, Charlie O'Neill, Donal O'Kelly, Gerard Stembridge, and Frank McCourtFifteen of Irelan...

• Mar-1999
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During the hottest summer in Dublin's history, Billy Sweeney, a middle-aged salesman, decides to take the law into his own hands after his daughter is attacked. But when his plans go spectacularly wrong, the results are terrifying, often hilarious, a...

• Aug-1997
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The first novel by Joseph O'Connor, bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay.Eddie Virago, proud owner of the last mohican haircut in Dublin, leaves his home town to find the fame and fortune he's convinced awaits in the wild world of the...

Ranging from urgently contemporary London and Dublin to New York's Lower East Side in the nineteenth century, from dark comedy to poignancy, from the wryly provocative to the quietly beautiful, these stories - Joseph O'Connor's first collection in mo...