Joseph O'Connor

From Irish PEN award-winning author Joseph O’Connor, Shadowplay explores the characters whose loves and lives inspired Dracula....

Inside the beleaguered city of Rome in 1944, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as ‘The Choir’. Their mission is to smuggle refugees to safety and help Allied soldiers, all under the nose of Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann.

September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. The war's outcome is far from certain....

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....

It's Dublin, June 1995, the hottest summer since records began. But Billy Sweeney, a middle-aged salesman with a failed marriage, a faltering career and a tumbledown house, has more than weather on his mind....

Inishowen is a story of love found late, of hidden connections and a journey that changes three lives forever....

Winter 1847, the Star of the Sea sets sail from Ireland for New York....

In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York....

It is 1865: the American Civil War is ending. Eliza Duane Mulvey sets out alone, walking across a devastated country in search of a youngster she has not seen in four years....

Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. An actress still in her teens begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works....

The American Civil War is ending. A woman sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza is searching for a youngster she has not seen in four years....