Joseph O’Neill Books in Order

Solicitor James Jones is content with an uneventful life until his former mentor reappears. Brilliant lawyer Michael Donovan offers him a job, unsettling Jones’s comfortable routine and reviving ambitions he thought he had abandoned.

Fourteen years after a fatal lightning strike, the Breeze family faces another concentrated run of misfortune. A failing chair-maker and his father struggle through job losses, burglary and sporting disappointment, testing their shaky strategies for surviving bad luck.

O’Neill investigates the wartime imprisonment of his two grandfathers, one an Irish republican and the other a Turkish Christian hotelier. Their different histories become a personal exploration of political allegiance, family secrecy and the violence of the twentieth century.

Separated from his wife and son after the September 11 attacks, Dutch banker Hans van den Broek discovers New York’s immigrant cricket community. His friendship with a charismatic Trinidadian offers a way back into a city and life that feel unfamiliar.

An unhappy New York lawyer accepts a mysterious job managing the affairs of a wealthy family in Dubai. As he struggles with his employers’ demands, his elaborate attempts to justify himself reveal the moral traps of his new life.

Poets, parents, partners and strangers navigate uneasy moments in this collection of contemporary stories. A stolen phone, a wedding visit and an awkward request expose hidden political pressures and emotional vulnerabilities beneath the ordinary routines of modern life.

A struggling soccer agent recruits his American half-brother to help locate an elusive African teenage player. Their pursuit of a potentially life-changing talent exposes family tensions and the uneasy relationship between sporting dreams, money and international exploitation.