When the girls are given the chance of a new life on the other side of the world, they know they have to say yes – no matter the price. How will they find the courage and strength to build new lives in a strange land?
Dublin, 1830: Can these brave young friends find a way out of the darkness?
by Ann Murtagh
Cover design or artwork by Jon Berkeley
Price: $13.99
ISBN: 9781788493727
Pub Date: 2023-11-04
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The O'Brien Press
208 Pages
Dublin, 1830: When his da breaks his arm, Hugh ‘Scholar’ O’Dare has to leave school to work as a chimney sweeper with his brothers. When a travelling sweep's apprentice starts going after their jobs, Scholar is tasked with scaring him off, but a shocking secret comes to light. Who will they turn to, and how will the secret change their futures?
Sophie and Hugh are left homeless when their house is bombed during the London Blitz. Their mother is seriously injured and their Dad is away fighting, so the children are sent to their grandfather in Ireland. How will they live in a strange country with a gruff old man who probably hates them? And will the family ever be together again?
Through the lives of three children who died on 21 November 1920, relive the story of Bloody Sunday, when a gaelic football match in Croke Park was the scene of slaughter by British forces. Gripping historical fiction.
Rebecca and her Daughters in the Tywi Valley in 1843
by Myrddin ap Dafydd
Translated by Susan Walton
Price: $10.49
ISBN: 9781845244866
Pub Date: 2023-04-04
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
226 Pages
It's summer 1843 - the time of the Rebecca Riots - and feelings are running high in the Tywi valley. The teenage twins of Tafarn y Wawr in Llangadog find themselves caught up in the struggle, but they...
Based on the story of Eileen and Trefor Beasley's stand for the Welsh language in the 1950s, when they refused to pay the local council tax until they received a Welsh request form. Their protest lasted...
In 1880’s Ireland, with the Land War raging and evictions and boycotting overturning everyday life, three children from very different backgrounds form a secret – and dangerous – alliance.
Tha Màiri NicEchairne ag ràdh gun robh i eòlach air Lee Harvey Oswald agus gun do theich i fhèin às na Stàitean, ach chan eil neach-naidheachd Ruairidh MacIlleathain cinnteach mun sgeul aice.
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