Poolbeg Press: 75 books

A young man emerges from a car crash on a remote road in Boston. Although he walks away unscathed the crash has claimed an innocent life. Sixteen years later Melanie Yeats walks into a Garda station with her hands stained in blood. As she gradually reveals her story the detectives are left...

Margaret Brazil had her first psychic experience, “seeing a room full of spirits” late in life. Now 62 years old, spirits utilise her in every way to convince the people who come from all over the world to see her that they are present, and that they are very real. Margaret is an ordinary...

Boston in the 1770s is a tense place. The patriots object to a government across the sea deciding their taxes, and the redcoats have been sent in to keep order. All Jack wants is to stay out of trouble, and to protect his little sister – but when the fighting breaks out, he knows he’ll need to...

Tara Flynn, a village girl, befriends Madeleine, the unstable daughter of the wealthy Fitzgerald family. Redheaded Tara, beautiful and ambitious, soon attracts male interest… Meanwhile her friend Biddy Harte, a kindhearted orphan fostered by the uncaring Lizzy Lawless, has fallen into another...

It is the early 1960s and flame haired Tara Flynn has almost everything she ever dreamed of as a child growing up in Ireland. Married to her first love Gabriel Fitzgerald, she is now mistress of Ballygrace House overlooking the Tullamore countryside. But after several years of marriage there is still...

Matthew and Keelan seem to be destined for one another, when out of the blue Matt decides that he doesn’t want a relationship. Kellan is so furious that when she discovers she’s pregnant she refuses to tell him.    When Matt does find out he comes over the all-caring family man and convinces...

Everybody’s got a reason to be on Inish Rua, the magnificent storm-tossed island where wicked billionaire Pierce Fox hosts a retreat for Ireland’s most fascinating artists . . . Amy’s got writer’s block with her newly unemployed husband trying to be a stay-at-home super-dad . . . but...

Ireland’s first ever female private investigator lifts the lid on the secret life of the nation.  Sandra Mara solved her first case at the tender age of nine. That gave her a taste for intrigue, and she went on to become one of the top private investigators in the country, even winning...

Farming, babies, sex, eccentricity; all the quirkiness and wit Anne Dunlop’s fans expect and then some! Jane was seventeen when Michael whisked her away to the wetlands of rural Ireland – to share a farmhouse and their marriage with his mother who sleepwalks, his father who snores and an...

With $342 in his pocket, 18-year-old Cat travels to Los Angeles to find a girl. Not any girl – Sophie Durango, the girl he’s in love with.  Star, a vagabond from Utah, finds herself in his path. Unexpectedly partnered, she rechristens them Hunter and Grape, and they embark on a journey...

Yasuyuki Ozeki had a dream – to cycle from Japan to Ireland, alone, through the Eurasian continent. He was acutely aware of and fascinated by the gap that lay in between these two countries. The only way he would ever be able to understand that gap was to ‘kick down the distance’ by bike. But...

The year is 1848. It is a time when magic and ghosts exist. Four Magnificent Children are captured by Badblood’s Circus. Theo can look into your eyes and reveal your secret thoughts, which come out of his mouth like a swarm of bees. Ginny has a bird called Blue living inside...

Having lost her beloved mother at a young age, Liz has always been protective of her younger sister Claire. After her turbulent teenage years, she finally comes to terms with her father’s relationship with bossy Auntie Rita. Now married to Richard, Liz finds herself abandoned in the emotional...

How Will Climate Change Affect You?  Climate change is the biggest threat to the world today. Rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns are already creating havoc in parts of the world. The issue has been hotly debated by experts and policy-makers; it is now widely accepted that human...