Jennifer Johnston

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1974
  • Latest Book:
    October 2016
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7 - The Great Shark Escape (Sep-2001)

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The Great Shark Escape (Sep-2001)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • How Many Miles to Babylon?

    Whitbread Literary Award-winning novelist Jennifer Johnston''s story of two young Irish men, whose defiant friendship spans class and, later, rank at the onset of World War I.

    Born to an aristocratic family on an estate outside of Dublin, ...

  • Fool's Sanctuary

    Miranda, a dying women, recalls the last weekend of her childhood--when her lover Cathal, a working class student and IRA soldier, and her brother Andrew, a British Army lietenant, visit simultaneously...

  • Shadows on Our Skin

    Joe Logan lives with his parents in Derry, where British soldiers are a familiar sight. One winter, he befriends a newcomer to Derry, lonely school teacher, Kathleen Doherty. His elder brother returns from London with money to spend and a gun in his ...

  • The Invisible Worm

  • The Gates

    Once, the villagers would tip their hats respectfully when the McMahons drove out through the ornate iron gates at the end of the drive. Now, when the estate is in a state of peaceful decay, Minnie returns home, disrupting the tranquillity....

  • The Railway Station Man

    Helen has retreated to the remote north-west coast of Ireland to paint the sea and the shore, and to be alone with her past.

    English war hero Roger Hawthorne has settled in the neglected railway station house nearby. Mutilated and sick at h...

  • Christmas Tree

    Constance Keating has lived a life of internal exile, alienated from her family and from Ireland. Now she has returned to her family home to die. While that painful, messy process takes place she replays, like a home movie, the fragments of her past....

  • Essential Jennifer Johnston

    This collector's edition contains three classic novels from Jennifer Johnston, one of Ireland's finest writers: The Captains and the Kings, The Railway Station Man and Fool's Sanctuary....

  • The Great Shark Escape

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    Magic School Bus: Science - 7

    Hi, I'm Arnold. I'm one of the kids in Ms. Frizzle's class. I knew we were in deep when Ms. Frizzle announced our unit on ocean life, and I was right. On our field trip, we ended up underwater and face-to-face with all kinds of sharks, from great whi...



  • THE MYTH OF THE BONBONS

  • Foolish Mortals

    After a shocking accident, one family gathers for an unforgettable Christmas overflowing with secrets and revelations in this deeply felt novel by one of Ireland’s foremost modern writers. Henry has been estranged from his children since his div...

  • The Gingerbread Woman

    A powerful novel, by one of Ireland’s preeminent writers, of two damaged people and their fateful, restorative friendship For Laurence, trauma came in the form of a random act of violence that claimed his wife and daughter a decade ago. For Cla...

  • The Old Jest

    In the wake of the Great War, a young woman’s life is turned upside down when she befriends a soldier of the grisly struggle on Ireland’s horizon Nancy lives with her aunt and ailing grandfather in a seaside town not far from Dublin. Eighteen ...

  • This Is Not a Novel

    Grappling with the loss of her brother three decades prior, a woman digs into her family’s past and uncovers generations of betrayal, half-truths, and secrecy Imogen’s brother, Johnny, disappeared thirty years ago, ostensibly the victim of a d...

  • Naming the Stars

    One of Ireland's best-loved novelists returns with a haunting novella of love, loss and memory
    Flora's father has been killed in the Battle of El Alamein, one of the many victims of the Second World War. For Flora and her mother, life will neve...

  • Captains and the Kings

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    Mr Prendergast, an elderly Anglo-Irishman, is living out his last years in the decaying splendour of his family mansion. As his mind wanders through the gloom he finds it peopled with memories of his neglected wife, his pale shadow of a father, his i...

  • The Illusionist

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    cover/DJ clean, crisp, interior is clean with no marks, no underlining or highlighting, binding is tight, a very nice copy throughout__all books are wrapped and padded well__books ship same or next day with order tracking...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jennifer Johnston has published 17 books.

Jennifer Johnston does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Naming the Stars, was published in October 2016.

The first book by Jennifer Johnston, How Many Miles to Babylon?, was published in August 1974.

No. Jennifer Johnston does not write books in series.
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