Eilis Dillon

A Hungarian Jewish family of talented musicians escapes Nazi persecution during World War II.

Before leaving Inishglass, an island off the coast of Ireland, for school in Galway, Dara and Bran visit their tutor who has moved to a haunted island and has plans to keep the boys on the island forever.

She would sacrifice everything for Mark Meredith had no choice after her mother's death but to turn to her estranged grandfather for help. To keep her two-year-old brother, Mark, from his tyrannical clutches, however, she pretended that Mark was her own illegitimate son. Meredith's life with her grandfather, even on his Fiji island paradise, wasn't easy; and his overbearing business manager, Dane Fowler, was a fascinating complication Meredith could well do without. Dane was a clever man, she guessed. She must never let herself forget that he was ruthless, too....

A Greek slave of a Roman artisan plans his escape from the city of Pompeii amid ominous signs of the approaching eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

Depicts the daily life of four families in Imperial Rome, those of a senator, businessman, farmer, and stallholder.

Sixteen-year-old Edward sails with friends from England to the New World in 1632 and joins the colony founded by the Pilgrims at Plymouth, discovering the perils and hardships of colonial life.

Ostracized by the villagers, a newcomer in the community hires a fifteen-year-old Irish boy to discover why some of the deer are disappearing from his herd.

Two tales about little boys and their adventures. In the first, two Irish brothers get to Dunmore by hitching rides with the people they meet. In the second, a Spanish boy helps save the town's water supply with an ingenious scheme.

A newly built boat proves a launch to adventure as two boys seek to disprove that their vessel is cursed.

When two boys from a remote island off the western Irish coast venture to the forbidden Island of Horses, they find a mysterious tame black colt and unexpected danger.

When the unpopular president of King's College, Dublin, begins getting threatening anonymous letters, he asks retired professor John Daly to investigate. Unfortunately for Daly and his friend, Garda Inspector Mike Kelley, there is no shortage of suspects -- the entire faculty loathes the president, who is cruel, arrogant, and a bully. A witty look at academe in the 1950's and full of quotable observations.