New in 2023 for young readers
Your Dream Home
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A fantasy novel for readers aged 9-14.
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If the location of your sleeping dreams is the only place you will truly be at home, what happens when your waking life pulls you off course?
Fourteen-year-old Jem has grown up believing that she must find her Dream Home before she can be truly happy. When Jem discovers that she has a sister she never knew about, her desires start pulling her one way and her dreams another. Does the truth lie in dreams, signs, and the mysterious appearance of cats—or is it time for Jem to listen to her instincts, and learn to trust her friends?
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BUY IT ON AMAZON IN PAPERBACK OR E-BOOK
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Also available from all other Amazons worldwide.
For customers in Ireland, I recommend you order from Amazon.de or one of the other EU Amazons. (Amazon UK is not currently able to deliver this book to the Republic of Ireland.)
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The Paper Doll Summer
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A cosy ghost mystery for readers aged 9-14.
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When Izzy goes to her grandmother’s house for the summer, she finds her beloved Gam increasingly frail and forgetful. If Izzy can only find Gam’s lost ring, maybe that will fix Gam’s memory, halt her decline, and put everything back the way it used to be.
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Izzy doesn’t know that the ghost of Great-Great-Aunt Frances is watching her, with her own reasons for wanting Izzy to find the ring. With the help of a new friend, Win, Izzy sets out to save her grandmother—but she might just end up saving someone else instead.
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BUY IT ON AMAZON IN PAPERBACK OR E-BOOK
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On the bookshelf
A series set in Ireland for readers aged 9-12. (It's called Lilac the Girl because people kept asking if Lilac was a penguin.) The Lilac books are set in the time and place of my childhood - outside Dublin in the 1980s - but Lilac has more fun and better adventures than I did.
To find out more about the books and how to buy them, visit Lilac's own website.
Reviews
Lilac is a charming story full of the kinds of friendships and growing up that will be familiar to anyone who has been eleven. If you loved Anne of Green Gables you'll want to get know Lilac.
Amazon customer
I'm a twelve year old who reads a lot, and I really liked this book because it was realistic and funny.
Amazon customer
This last book doesn't disappoint. We couldn't put it down ... and found ourselves laughing out loud.
Amazon customer
Something for older readers
A diary and memoir of the time my dad spent in Guatemala in 1969-71.
I put it together with many of his photos into a book with notes and other supporting text. It's available from Amazon worldwide in print and ebook formats. Makes a great present for that hard-to-buy-for relative!
‘At night there is always lightning in the hills, but seldom here.’
In late 1968, Brian Doran, an unassuming Englishman living in Dublin, decided to put his comfortable bachelor life on hold and spend two years as a volunteer in Central America.
An architect by trade and a hobby boatbuilder, he answered an ad looking for a carpenter. He was barely certain where Guatemala was, let alone aware that a civil war was simmering there, but he plunged gamely into learning a new language and flying halfway around the world to put his talents and his propensity for hard work to use in a tiny parish by the Caribbean Sea. When his time was up, he came home on a slow boat via New Zealand.
The story of two extraordinary years of design, construction, sailing and friendship is told in Brian's words and illustrated with his own photos and sketches.
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