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Joseph O'Connor

Biography

Joseph O'Connor

Joseph O’Connor’s STAR OF THE SEA was an international bestseller, a New York Times, Economist Notable Book of the Year and a Sunday Times #1 bestseller. It won France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is the author of nine novels and is the Inaugural Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. SHADOWPLAY was named Novel of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards and was a finalist for the prestigious Costa Book Award.

Joseph O'Connor

Books by Joseph O'Connor

by Joseph O'Connor - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

September 1943: German forces have Rome under their control. Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann rules over the Eternal City with vicious efficiency. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war’s outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, Jews and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, the world’s smallest state, a neutral, independent country nestled within the city of Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is drawn into a deadly battle of wits as they attempt to aid those seeking refuge. MY FATHER'S HOUSE is inspired by the extraordinary true story of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who, together with his accomplices, risked his life to smuggle Jews and escaped Allied prisoners out of Italy right under the nose of his Nazi nemesis.