Joseph O'Connor

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1997
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Rome Escape Line Trilogy

1 - My Father's House (Feb-2023)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Cowboys and Indians

    All alone, with only his electric guitar and his overactive ego for company, Eddie Virago, proud owner of the last mohican haircut in Dublin, leaves his home town to find fame in the wild world of the London rock scene. Things don't quite go as plann...

  • The Salesman

    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...

  • Yeats Is Dead!

    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 o...

  • Star of the Sea

    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 ...

  • Redemption Falls

    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 ...

  • True Believers

    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,...

  • The Secret World of the Irish Male

  • The Comedian

    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....

  • Inishowen

    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...



  • Ghost Light

    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...

  • New Irish Short Stories

    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...

  • Orchard Street, Dawn

    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 ...

  • Figure in a Photograph

    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, fu...

  • The Thrill of it All

    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...

  • Shadowplay

    A West End theater in London is shaken up by the crimes of Jack the Ripper in this novel by the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of The Star of the Sea.Henry Irving is Victorian London’s most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has intro...

  • My Father's House

    The Rome Escape Line Trilogy - 1

    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 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WALTER SCOTT PRIZEInspired by the true story of Mons...

  • The Ghosts of Rome

    In the final months of World War II, a clandestine group known as The Choir successfully smuggles thousands of escapees out of Nazi-occupied Rome via a secret route known as the Escape Line. When an unidentified airman falls wounded from the sky, The...

  • Desperados

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  • Where Have You Been?

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    A deeply moving collection of stories from the bestselling author of The Star of the Sea.
     
    Where Have You Been? is award-winning novelist Joseph O'Connor's first collection of short stories in more than twenty years. Ranging from urgently con...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joseph O'Connor has published 19 books.

The next book by Joseph O'Connor, The Ghosts of Rome, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Joseph O'Connor, Cowboys and Indians, was published in August 1997.

Yes. Joseph O'Connor has 1 series.
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