Joseph O'Connor

Having escaped the Irish famine only to face America's Civil War, Eliza sets out on a mysterious cross-country quest, while a poetess denies other suitors to take up with a mercurial revolutionary, and a rebel guerilla sets out on a brutal rampage across the West.

In German-occupied Rome during World War II, as diplomats, refugees and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, a small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest risk everything, including their lives, to help those seeking refuge.

"Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides to open his own London theater with the goal of making it the greatest playhouse on earth, he hires a young Dublin clerk harboring literary ambitions by the name of Bram Stoker to manage it. As Irving's...