Newcastlewest Books


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Katie Hanrahan, a student of Irish history, writes the stories of the Irish diaspora.

P.L. O'Sullivan is a fourth-generation Chicagoan with roots in the Irish enclave of Bridgeport

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The King Of The Irish    by Jack O'Malley
Price: $4.99 USD. 106670 words. Published by Newcastlewest Books  on March 13, 2013. .

British spies have infiltrated the United Brotherhood, to quash another Irish rebellion. When one of the spies turns up dead in a Chicago sewer, police detective Daniel Coughlin is swept up in a power struggle between warring factions of the Irish nationalists, a fight that could see him hanged for a murder he did not commit. If his political clout does not come through for him, he is a dead man.
Lace Curtain Irish    by P. L. O'Sullivan
Price: $2.99 USD. 97810 words. Published by Newcastlewest Books  on May 2, 2012. .

Julia Hanlon wants to achieve the American dream, but an Irish-American girl has limited options in Chicago in 1887. Her brother Daniel can help her realize her goal, but family secrets are driving them apart. Daniel must confront their mother and expose the past, but time is running out for Julia.
A Terrible Beauty    by Katie Hanrahan
Price: $1.99 USD. 115850 words. Published by Newcastlewest Books  on August 30, 2011. .

The penal colony in Western Australia is escape-proof...but that is about to change. Sentenced to seven years transportation, Mary Claire O'Dwyer is determined to free the Fenian rebels whose support has landed her on a prison ship bound for the end of the earth. She will find allies in a foreign land where a Royal Marine's scarlet coat can be another deception.
The Leaven Of The Pharisees    by Katie Hanrahan
Price: $1.99 USD. 96170 words. Published by Newcastlewest Books  on March 30, 2011. .

Molly knows nothing about her late father's past but when she steps off the plane in Dublin Airport, she steps into another world---a world where children were taken from parents and locked away by the State and the Catholic Church. Her journey to bury her father's ashes will take her far from her destination.


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