Jean Grainger
Author
Series
Star and the shamrock volume 4
Publisher
Jean Grainger
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ballycreggan, Northern Ireland, 1955. Erich 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, it feels like all of his friends are drawn to The Promised Land, and he can understand why, but Israel is not for him. One by one, they leave, and Erich is bereft. He wonders if he should just go too,...
Author
Series
Star and the shamrock volume 2
Publisher
Jean Grainger
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Berlin, 1944. Ariella Bannon is being hunted. Someone is determined to betray her, 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 and Erich have found a home in Ireland away from the chaos of war-ravaged Europe. As the dark news of what has happened to their fellow Jews filters through, they are torn--love for their mother and their...
Author
Publisher
Jean Grainger
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When her husband doesn't come home one day, Ariella realises that the only way she can ensure her Jewish children's safety is to avail of the Kindertransport, but can she bear to let them go? A thousand miles away, Elizabeth Klein has closed herself off from the world. Losing her husband on the last day of the Great War, and her child months later, she cannot, will not, love again. It hurts too much. But she is all Liesl and Erich Bannon have. Thrown...
Author
Series
Star and the shamrock volume 3
Publisher
Jean Grainger
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dublin 1950. Liesl 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 horrors of the Nazi regime. Being adopted by Elizabeth and Daniel Lieber meant she and Erich spent the war in Northern Ireland, safe and loved, but Liesl always knew something was missing. When an opportunity...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gold Harp Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
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 house once more. The war is over and they have survived, so now they must set about making a bright future for themselves and their family. But the shadows of the past are ever lurking, and there are many...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (11 hr., 16 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Robinswood, Co Waterford, 1939. The once grand house is home to two very different families. Despite delusions of grandeur, Lord and Lady Kenefick and their adult children live a life of decayed opulence as the money needed to keep such a large house and grounds ever dwindles. Meanwhile, the Murphy family, Dermot, Isabella and their three almost grown-up girls, live and work on the estate and do their best to keep everything running smoothly. Social...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gold Harp Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 conversations. But here, like everywhere, people have their secrets, and as the local sergeant I'm expected to have my eyes peeled for anything unusual. And I do. Usually. Until I don't, and the consequences...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gold Harp Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"My 12 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-caps, the evil monster that's shrinking my trousers, not to mention the hot flushes--without having to be like one of those gritty Netflix cops, chasing criminals down alleyways and busting drug deals....
Author
Series
Carmel Sheehan volume 1
Publisher
Jean Grainger
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Carmel Sheehan was abandoned as a baby and left in the care of an Irish convent. Though they were not cruel, life with the nuns was lonely and isolating. Nobody ever adopted her, so when the time came to leave Trinity House, she was terrified, and jumped at the chance to get a family of her own through a marriage to a man she barely knew. But Bill wasn't who he seemed, and having his horrible sister Julia as a constant looming presence mad a bad...
Author
Series
Cullen's Celtic Cabaret volume 1
Publisher
Gold Harp Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Large print edition
Physical Desc
455 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dublin, Ireland and Valencia, Spain 1917. Peter Cullen has no money and no prospects, but he has talent and the will to succeed. All he needs now is luck. May Gallagher is determined to make her own way in life, even if it means defying her parents' plans for her. Nick Gerrity is ready to turn his back on his past and start anew, but his secrets might just catch up with him. And Aida Gonzales, destitute and alone, discovers an unexpected lifeline...
Author
Series
Queenstown volume 3
Publisher
Jean Grainger
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Queenstown, County Cork. 1920. For twenty-year-old Harp Deveraux, 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 sweetheart JohnJoe is by her side, but the storm clouds of war grow ever darker. For eight hundred years Ireland had made numerous bids for her freedom but now, at last, liberation from British rule is...
Author
Series
Cullen's Celtic Cabaret volume 2
Publisher
Gold Harp Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Large print edition
Physical Desc
450 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In A Beautiful Ferocity, the second instalment of the Cullen's Celtic Cabaret Series, we're taken on a thrilling ride through the Roaring Twenties as Ireland fights for her freedom. Peter Cullen leads his troupe of eclectic performers through the troubled country, in a daring new direction, entertaining audiences who've had enough of the old ways. When their cabaret is threatened, the performers must fight to keep their dream alive, treading the dangerous...
13) What will be
Author
Series
Carmel Sheehan volume 3
Publisher
Gold Harp Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As long as Carmel stays in London, nothing can happen to shatter her perfect life. She has a wonderful marriage, a rewarding career and a great bunch of friends. As far as she's concerned, the sadness of her past can stay back in Ireland, where it belongs. For Carmel, Ireland only means misery, loneliness and fear and she never wants to return. The new, confident and happy Carmel only exists on the cosmopolitan streets of Britain's capital. If she...
14) Rivers of wrath
Author
Series
Cullen's Celtic Cabaret volume 3
Publisher
Gold Harp Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Large print edition
Physical Desc
459 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of a relentless war for Ireland's freedom, the stakes are higher than ever for Peter Cullen and his troupe as they try to stay out of the conflict. But as they soon discover, that's a luxury nobody can afford. As well as fighting the forces of occupation, some people are using this time of chaos to settle old scores, and it seems the cabaret has gathered some sinister enemies. With danger lurking around every corner, Peter...
Author
Series
Carmel Sheehan volume 2
Publisher
Gold Harp Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As someone raised in an orphanage, Carmel knows she should be grateful for a roof over her head and a respectable family, but she would love nothing more than to escape Birr, Co Offaly and get away from her husband, the monosyllabic Bill and his horrible sister forever. Life as Mrs Sheehan should be bearable, all she had to do was look after the house and cook Bill's meals. She didn't even need to speak to him, in fact, he preferred that she didn't....
16) The west's awake
Author
Series
Queenstown volume 2
Publisher
Jean Grainger
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
438 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Queenstown, County Cork, Ireland. April 1916. Sixteen-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 Devereaux, has only one thing on his mind. The port of Queenstown bustles with activity as people traverse the Atlantic either in search of new lives on foreign shores or returning to old...
17) Roaring Liberty
Author
Series
Queenstown volume Book 4
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
[Large print edition]
Physical Desc
503 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"New York City, 1922 Harp 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 the other part finds life in America during the Roaring Twenties too exciting to trade for the sleepy streets of County Cork. She and JohnJoe are united and determined to sample all that life after the...
Author
Series
Queenstown volume 1
Publisher
Jean Grainger
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
471 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Queenstown, County Cork, Ireland. April 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 on the streets with other children. Her mother, Rose, is the reserved and ladylike housekeeper at the Cliff House. The local women envy her grace and poise while the men admire her beauty. She behaves...
Author
Series
Cullen's Celtic Cabaret volume 4
Publisher
Gold Harp Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
519 pages [large print]; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The opportunity of a lifetime lands in Peter Cullen's lap and nothing is going to stop him taking full advantage, not even the misgivings of his wife. Cullen's Celtic Cabaret has been flying high, but the real goal, the secret desire of Peter's heart, America, is finally, incredibly, looking like a reality. The troupe are not at all prepared for what awaits them in prohibition era Atlantic City and they are dazzled by the bright lights. Keeping discipline...
Author
Series
A Mags Munroe story volume 3
Publisher
Gold Harp Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
433 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 among the offenders, well, those days I really wish I'd chosen a different career.