Irish Historical Fiction series from Jean Grainger

In 1912, in Queenstown, Ireland, as Titanic sets sail for New York, Harp and her mother Rose run a guesthouse. Their stories, and those of their guests, most of whom are spending their last ever night  in their native land, are set against the background of growing turmoil and unrest in Ireland and the wider world.

1. Last Port of Call
2. The West's Awake
3. The Harp and the Rose
4. Roaring Liberty

In 1918, in the aftermath of the Great War, four very different young people seek a life on the stage. Betrayed by the ideals of the older generation, they are determined to forge a new path, unencumbered by strict social rules. Sequins, spotlights and the sparkle of cabaret offer a new life and a new hope, if they dare to take it.

1. For All the World
2. A Beautiful Ferocity
3. Rivers of Wrath
4. The Gem of Ireland's Crown

It’s 1937 in a windswept County Kerry fishing village. Grace Fitzgerald dreams of escaping the ties that bind her to her life. Frustrated, she pours her heart into a letter which she puts in a bottle and tosses in the ocean.  Richard Lewis, heir to a Savannah banking fortune, is the chance recipient.

They are separated by geography, class and social expectations, but their unique connection endures, even as the world goes to war and people’s lives everywhere are upended.

1. Lilac Ink
2. Yesterday's Paper
3. History's Pages
4. Folded Corners
5. Sincerely Grace
6. Allied Flames

In Hitler’s Germany, widow Ariella Bannon mourns the violent death of her Jewish husband and fears for the safety of their two children. She entrusts them to the Kindertransport, and to a woman she’s never met, her husband’s Irish cousin Elizabeth. But Elizabeth faces challenges of her own.

Follow the lives of Liesl and Erich as they strive to survive and to find their places in the world. Experience how human sparks of kindness and hope live on amidst the dark days and the atrocities of World War II.

1. The Star and the Shamrock
2. The Emerald Horizon
3. The Hard Way Home
4. The World Starts Anew

1938. Lord and Lady Kenefick live in decaying opulence in the vast crumbling estate of Robinswood, Co Waterford. Below stairs, the Murphys struggle to keep things going as funds continue to dwindle.

As war clouds gather, Europe is in turmoil, while Robinswood continues its slow and steady decline.. 

What once was true is no longer certain, and the Keneficks and the Murphys find themselves entwined in ways that would have been impossible a generation earlier.

1. What Once Was True
2. Return to Robinswood
3. Trials and Tribulations

At the end of the 1950s, eighteen-year-old Lena O’Sullivan’s future looks limited. She dreams of a bigger life than Kilteegan Bridge can offer, and in Malachy Berger, the son of a local landowner, she finds a kindred spirit. Why is everyone so against their friendship? As they uncover the chilling truth, that their fate was set long before they were born, they realise that only they can undo the wrongs of the past.

1. The Trouble With Secrets
2. What Divides Us
3. More Harm Than Good
4. When Irish Eyes Are Lying
5. A Silent Understanding

In County Clare, Ireland, Orla Lynch's carefully built life is shattered in an instant, forcing her to reimagine everything she thought she knew — about her future, and about her past. At the centuries-old Dunmara House, her story becomes entwined with that of Jeannie, a young American woman who arrived in Ireland in 1969 with dreams, secrets, and a destiny she never anticipated.

Follow two women across decades as they navigate love, loss, and reinvention, while the ancient walls of Dunmara House slowly surrender the secrets they've kept for generations.

1. If Walls Could Talk