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fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II

with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel' Independent

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They tell of hostile locals and shark-infested waters where waves in excess of thirty feet break a mile from shore

Declan O'Rourke: The Pawnbroker's Reward [2021] hardback POETS have a look at theDeclan O'Rourke's award winning album, Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine, was released to critical acclaim in 2017. It illuminated an extraordinary series of eye witness accounts, including the story of Padraig and Cait ua Buachalla. Four years on, in Declan's meticulously researched literary debut, the story of the ua Buachalla family is woven into a powerful, multilayered work showing us the famine as it happened through the lens of a single town