Jean Grainger

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2013
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Carmel Sheehan

1 - Letters of Freedom (Jan-2016)
2 - The Future's Not Ours To See (Oct-2017)
3 - What Will Be Will Be (Apr-2018)

A Kilteegan Bridge Story

1 - The Trouble With Secrets (Apr-2022)
2 - What Divides Us (Sep-2022)
3 - More Harm Than Good (Nov-2022)

A Mags Munroe Story

1 - The Existential Worries of Mags Munroe (Mar-2022)
2 - Growing Wild in the Shade (Jul-2022)
3 - Each to Their Own (May-2023)

Queenstown

1 - Last Port of Call (Feb-2021)
2 - The West's Awake (Jun-2021)
3 - The Harp and the Rose (Aug-2021)
4 - Roaring Liberty (Oct-2022)

Robinswood

1 - What Once Was True (Jun-2018)
2 - Return to Robinswood (Feb-2019)
3 - Trials and Tribulations (Sep-2019)

Star and the Shamrock

1 - The Star and the Shamrock (May-2019)
2 - The Emerald Horizon (Dec-2019)
3 - The Hard Way Home (Jun-2020)
4 - The World Starts Anew (Dec-2020)

Tour

1 - The Tour (Feb-2013)
2 - Safe at the Edge of the World (Jul-2017)
3 - The Story of Grenville King (Nov-2017)
4 - The Homecoming of Bubbles O'Leary (Dec-2018)
5 - Finding Billie Romano (Jul-2019)
6 - Kayla's Trick (Aug-2020)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • The Tour

    Tour - 1

    'In the great tradition of Irish storytelling, taking her place beside Maeve Binchy and Frank McCourt, Jean Grainger's books will sweep you away to Ireland.'

    Every week, Conor O'Shea collects a new group of American visitors from Shann...

  • Letters of Freedom

    Carmel Sheehan - 1

    USA Today Bestselling Author Jean Grainger wants to take you to Ireland...

    Carmel is lost. Sharif is searching. Neither knows the full truth.Carmel Sheehan was abandoned as a baby and left in the care of an Irish convent. Though they were n...

  • So Much Owed

    A doctor sickened by the First World War. His children determined to fight in World War 2. How far can you stretch the ties that bind a family?


    In the turbulent and uncertain times of Ireland in 1919, the birth of two childr...

  • Shadow of a Century

    From the author of So Much Owed, winner of Authors Choice Best Historical Fiction Award 2016 

    'What you get with a Jean Grainger book is warm, authentic writing that welcomes you into the heart of Ireland' 
    Kate Kerrigan, New York Times...

  • Under Heaven's Shining Stars

    Three Irish boys. Three very different backgrounds.  A bond that will be tested beyond all reason.

    USA Today Bestselling Author Jean Grainger is taking you to Ireland...For Liam, Patrick, and Hugo, life in 1960’s Ireland proves to be both...

  • Safe at the Edge of the World

    Tour - 2

    'What you get with a Jean Grainger book is warm, authentic writing that welcomes you into the heart of Ireland' 
    Kate Kerrigan, New York Times bestselling author of the Ellis Island trilogy. 

    A tranquil Irish vacation, music, scenery, ...

  • The Future's Not Ours To See

    Carmel Sheehan - 2

    Carmel is stuck. The future could be bright, but something is stopping her. Despite the promise of a bright future away from Ireland, Carmel Sheehan is drawn back to the miserable marriage she feels duty-bound to honour. But when she returns to her m...

  • The Story of Grenville King

    Tour - 3

    'What you get with a Jean Grainger book is warm, authentic writing that welcomes you into the heart of Ireland' 
    Kate Kerrigan, New York Times bestselling author of the Ellis Island trilogy. 



    Handsome, charming Conor O’She...

  • What Will Be Will Be

    Carmel Sheehan - 3

    At long last Carmel’s life is working out. She has escaped her miserable existence in Ireland and is truly happy for the first time in her life. She has a wonderful husband, a rewarding career, and is getting to know the warm, funny, extended famil...



  • What Once Was True

    Robinswood - 1

    'Following in the footsteps of Maeve Binchy and Frank McCourt, Jean Grainger will go down as one of the great Irish novelists.'

    Roberta Kagan Bestselling author of All My Love, Dietrich. 


    Robinswood, Co Waterford, ...

  • The Homecoming of Bubbles O'Leary

    Tour - 4

    A luxury stay in an Irish castle, a handsome, experienced tour guide, and a secret that has never been revealed.Life as manager of the magnificent resort of Castle Dysert on Ireland's wild Atlantic coast is never dull, and Conor O'Shea's life to date...

  • Return to Robinswood

    Robinswood - 2

    Robinswood Estate, County Waterford, Ireland. 1946. Years of neglect and abandonment have left the family seat of the Keneficks almost derelict, but the new Lord Kenefick and his charming young wife Kate are determined to breathe life into the old ho...

  • The Star and the Shamrock

    Star and the Shamrock - 1

    Ariella Bannon has no choice: she must put her precious children, Liesl and Erich, on that train or allow them to become prey for the Nazis. Berlin 1939. When her husband doesn’t come home one day, Ariella realises that the only way she can e...

  • Finding Billie Romano

    Tour - 5

    USA Today bestselling author wants to take you to Ireland for a story that will leave you wanting more long after you turn the last page...Twenty-five year old Billie Romano is struggling. She is grieving the death of her beloved dad and nothing in h...

  • Trials and Tribulations

    Robinswood - 3

    Robinswood Estate, County Waterford, 1950Three sisters, the three men that love them, and a house that could consume them all.Assuming their roles as the new Lord and Lady Kenefick and returning to Robinswood with the plan to drag it back from the br...

  • The Emerald Horizon

    Star and the Shamrock - 2

    Berlin, 1944Ariella Bannon is being hunted. Someone is determined to betray her as a Jew, but she has survived against incredible odds, and the end is in sight. She will be reunited with her precious children, no matter what it takes.Meanwhile, Liesl...

  • The Hard Way Home

    Star and the Shamrock - 3

    Dublin 1950Liesl Bannon has never felt like she was truly at home anywhere, not since her mother placed her and her brother Erich on the last Kindertransport out of Berlin in 1939. She'd been so much more fortunate than most Jews, saved from the horr...

  • Kayla's Trick

    Tour - 6

    When Conor's dream for Castle Dysert is facing ruin by circumstances outside his control he refuses to be beaten. Surely there must be a way to save everything they've worked so hard for? Then, as all hope seems lost, a solution in the form of a real...

  • The World Starts Anew

    Star and the Shamrock - 4

    Ballycreggan, Northern Ireland, 1955Erich Bannon is happy in the small Irish village he has thought of as home since he arrived as a terrified, traumatised seven year old, one of the last Jewish children to escape Berlin in 1939. Now at twenty-three,...



  • Last Port of Call

    Queenstown - 1

    Queenstown, County Cork, IrelandApril 1912 Twelve-year-old Harp Delaney is an unusual child, quiet and intelligent far beyond her years. She would rather spend her days in the library of the grand Georgian house that she sees as her home than playing...

  • The West's Awake

    Queenstown - 2

    Queenstown, Co Cork. Ireland. 1916Sixteen-year-old Harp Devereaux is growing up in a country in turmoil. Her mother Rose is struggling to navigate single parenthood, run the Cliff House, and stay out of the way of the authorities. Harp's uncle, Ralph...

  • The Harp and the Rose

    Queenstown - 3

    Queenstown, County Cork. 1920For twenty-year-old Harp Devereaux, life should be idyllic. At university, she feels for the first time in her life that she belongs, her mother Rose is running the Cliff House as a successful business, and her childhood ...

  • Sisters of the Southern Cross

    Queensland, Australia 1936 Sister Claire McAuliffe has been called from Dungarvan, County Waterford, to do God's work in Jumaaroo, Queensland. Along with four other sisters she is charged with setting up a Catholic school for the education of the gol...

  • The Existential Worries of Mags Munroe

    A Mags Munroe Story - 1

    My twelve-year-old daughter frequently moans that Ballycarrick is the most boring town in Ireland.Nothing ever happens here.She's right.And as the local police sergeant, this is something I'm delighted about.I've enough to worry about-the polar ice-c...

  • The Trouble With Secrets

    A Kilteegan Bridge Story - 1

    For eighteen year old Lena O'Sullivan, life is predictable and dull. A future of hard work, marriage to a local boy, and a family of her own one day is all she has to look forward to. People from her background know not to expect too much, but Lena y...

  • Growing Wild in the Shade

    A Mags Munroe Story - 2

    If you want to disappear, start again, make a new life, a small Irish village is probably not the wisest place to go, since anonymity is not something we do well here. The arrival of someone new is always a cause for twitching curtains and whispered ...

  • What Divides Us

    A Kilteegan Bridge Story - 2

    Kilteegan Bridge, Ireland 1963. On the face of it, life is idyllic for Eli and Lena Kogan. Living in their beautiful house in the Irish countryside, their children are growing up happy and safe surrounded by a loving community. So when a letter arriv...

  • Roaring Liberty

    Queenstown - 4

    New York City, 1922Harp Devereaux is torn. Part of her desperately wants to return to Ireland to finish what she and her family and friends started, and to witness the departure of the British forces from Ireland after eight hundred long years. But t...

  • More Harm Than Good

    A Kilteegan Bridge Story - 3

    Kilteegan Bridge, Ireland 1974 For each member of the O'Sullivan family there are turbulent times ahead. Eli's need to do his best for his patients is a cause for a bitter divide in the community. Emmet seems hell bent on going down a path in life hi...



  • When Irish Eyes Are Lying

    Kilteegan Bridge, Ireland. 1975Despite the best efforts to the older generation to maintain standards, short skirts, long hair and loud music are all the rage in Kilteegan Bridge. Emmet Kogan has set his sights on an education at the prestigious Stan...

  • A Silent Understanding

  • Each to Their Own

    A Mags Munroe Story - 3

    There are some days when being the Garda Sergeant of a small Irish town really tests me. Having to police my family and friends is a necessary evil, but when I'm faced with arresting half the children in the town, and discovering someone close to me ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jean Grainger has published 32 books.

Jean Grainger does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Each to Their Own, was published in May 2023.

The first book by Jean Grainger, The Tour, was published in February 2013.

Yes. Jean Grainger has 7 series.
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