Paul Lynch Books in Order

After a violent confrontation threatens his family’s livelihood, Coll Coyle flees nineteenth-century Donegal. Pursued by the relentless John Faller, he crosses the Atlantic, hoping a new life in America can put his pursuer and past behind him.

A fire kills a farm worker and destroys Barnabas Kane’s cattle in rural Ireland. As the proud farmer seeks help rebuilding, resentment, suspected sabotage, and secrets within his family turn recovery into a struggle that threatens them all.

Sent away in boys’ clothing by her mother, Grace travels across Ireland with her younger brother as famine approaches. Hunger, violence, and loss force the young girl to keep reinventing herself in order to survive.

Needing money, fisherman Bolivar takes inexperienced teenager Hector to sea despite warnings of a storm. Blown far into the Pacific, the two men confront dwindling supplies, isolation, and the memories that haunt their struggle to stay alive.

When secret police come for her trade-unionist husband, Dublin scientist Eilish Stack confronts an Ireland sliding into dictatorship. As everyday life disintegrates, she faces increasingly desperate choices about protecting her children and holding her family together.