Alice Taylor Books in Order

When Ellie loses a tooth she discovers a fairy door in her bedroom and tumbles into Fairyland, where she joins Tooth Fairy Willow and leprechaun Sean on a quest to reclaim a stolen crock of gold from a thieving magpie.

Alice looks at life after family and work pressures ease, charting a year of living alone, lockdowns and all, and finding comfort in painting, gardening, memories and the everyday ritual of making tea for herself.

Alice revisits the worn schoolbooks of her 1940s and 50s childhood, using their poems and stories as a doorway back to farm chores, village life and the nature filled world that shaped her early years.

Marking her eightieth year, Alice keeps a journal of 2018, from wild storms and heatwaves to village celebrations, reflecting on aging, resilience and what it means to live well in a fast changing world.

This reflective collection invites readers to notice small, luminous moments, from garden work to shared cups of tea, and shows how attention, gratitude and kindness can quietly transform ordinary days.

Set around her kitchen table, this book wanders through Alice's home, village and memories, from treasured linens and old lamps to local rows and tree planting, capturing everyday conversation in a modern Irish community.

Alice opens her door at Christmas, remembering childhood preparations, baking and candlelight while describing how she now decorates, cooks and celebrates, blending old farmhouse traditions with the realities of a present day family holiday.

In a series of true stories, Alice honours the so called ordinary women who held families, farms and communities together, sharing portraits of neighbours, relatives and friends whose hard work and quiet courage shaped Irish life.

Returning to her childhood farm, Alice recalls tools, animals, lamps and long vanished routines, showing how a busy, hard working household created warmth, security and fun in an Ireland before electricity and modern comforts.

Here Alice leads readers through the garden she inherited and slowly transformed, telling the stories behind favourite plants, ornaments and corners, and celebrating the healing, creativity and companionship that a well loved garden can offer.

Written for people living with loss, this short volume of poems and reflections traces the lonely road of bereavement, acknowledging anger and sorrow while gently pointing toward connection, nature and time as sources of healing.

Drawing on the loss of her husband, parents, siblings and friends, Alice writes about the people she loved, the shock of their deaths and the small, sustaining habits that helped her live with grief over time.

This volume continues Alice's memoirs as she moves from farm to village, raising a family, running a guesthouse, shop and post office, and getting to know the eccentric, close knit community along the river in Innishannon.

In this selection of new and collected poems, Alice arranges her work around themes like home, village romance, grief and winter fields, offering a poetic companion to the stories told in her memoirs.

Through a series of sketches about neighbours, clubs, projects and rituals, Alice explores how a rural parish works day to day, celebrating shared spaces, volunteers and the push to care for both people and landscape.

In the final Mossgrove novel, young Danny Conway inherits a damaged farm and a legacy of bitterness, and must decide whether he can rescue the land and his family's future with unexpected help from old adversaries.

In this gentle memoir about bereavement, Alice walks through seasons of mourning after family deaths, describing shock, loneliness and small consolations, and offering practical, compassionate reflections on how grief slowly changes but never quite disappears.

The second Mossgrove story follows the Phelans and their neighbours across the river, as widow Martha clashes with her son over how to run the farm and the brooding Matt Conway nurses grudges that threaten both families.

Arranged as a country diary, this book records a year of Irish rural life, from birds and hedgerows to fairs, weather and family events, capturing how closely everyday work is tied to the changing seasons.

Combining place based poems with spiritual reflections, this collection moves from Irish lanes and holy wells to journeys further afield, using landscape and pilgrimage to explore faith, memory and the pull of home.

A patchwork of short essays and memories, this miscellany ranges across cottages, farmyards, gardens and quiet lanes, painting affectionate snapshots of Irish country life and the small details that make each place feel like home.

In the first Mossgrove novel, the Phelans' ancestral farm is thrown into turmoil when Ned's ambitious wife Martha tries to claim it for herself, forcing his sister Kate and farmhand Jack to fight to keep Mossgrove in the family.

Another Christmas memoir, this book revisits the rituals, stories and humour of Alice's country childhood, showing how one family prepared for the holiday and wove faith, hard work and imagination into the most magical night of the year.

Seen through Alice's nine year old eyes, this memoir relives a farmhouse Christmas in County Cork, from fattening the geese and sweeping the chimney for Santa to midnight Mass, visiting neighbours and the wild excitement of St Stephen's Day.

This illustrated fairy tale introduces children to an ancient oak tree whose hidden life and forest creatures reveal gentle lessons about kindness, courage and respecting the natural world around us.

In this collection of memories from 1950s County Cork, teenage Alice describes farm chores, village characters, schooldays and local customs, balancing accounts of hard physical work with the fun and mischief of growing up in a close community.

This early poetry collection gathers simple, lyrical poems about fields, weather, animals and family, distilling Alice's attachment to the land and the rhythms of farm life into short, reflective pieces.

Alice's breakthrough memoir recalls her 1940s and 50s childhood on a small farm without electricity or running water, filled with animals, neighbours, schooldays and the strong sense of belonging that came from field, family and faith.

Here Alice ranges beyond the home place, sharing stories of trips, weddings, neighbours and everyday mishaps, all told with the easy humour and sharp eye for detail that made her earlier rural memoirs so loved.