Books by Frank Delaney and Complete Book Reviews
Frank Delaney, Author . HarperCollins $26.95 (576p) ISBN 978-0-06-056348-6
BBC reporter Delaney's fictionalized history of his native country, an Irish bestseller, is a sprawling, riveting read, a book of stories melding into a novel wrapped up in an Irish history text. In 1951, when Ronan O'Mara is nine, he meets...
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Frank Delaney, Author . Random $24.95 (300p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6524-0
Crippled by two monstrous waves during a 1951 North Atlantic hurricane, the freighter Flying Enterprise
was left wallowing on its side and looking as if it would sink at any minute. The subsequent rescue, in mountainous seas, of 10 passengers and...
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Frank Delaney, Author . Random $26.95 (445p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6523-3
Seventy-five years after the death of Charles O’Brien, an Anglo-Irish itinerant healer and occasional journalist born in 1860, his memoir is discovered in a trunk. The result is this touching novel from Ireland
author Delaney, in which the...
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Frank Delaney, Author . Random $26 (393p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6525-7
Delaney's meandering novel follows an American priest as he travels along Ireland's Shannon River in search of his family roots, and while it's peace he seeks, trouble has a way of finding him. After witnessing the atrocities of WWI,...
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Frank Delaney, Author . Random $26 (427p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6783-1
Add “compare Amazon rankings” to the things husband and wife Frank Delaney and Diane Meier will be doing this spring.
Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show
Frank Delaney
. Random
, $26 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6783-1
A digressive story set
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Frank Delaney, Random, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6784-8
In Delaney's panoramic sequel to
Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show, matchmaker Kate Begley plies her profession in neutral WWII Ireland. Into her life come Venetia Kelly narrator Ben MacCarthy, whose wife has gone missing, and Charles Miller, a U.S....
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Frank Delaney. Random House, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6785-5
The riveting final installment of Delaney's Ben McCarthy trilogy (after The Matchmaker of Kenmare) explores the protagonist's relationship with lost love Venetia and his folklore studies with legendary storyteller John Jacob Farrell O'Neill. O'Neill'
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