11 Best historical books like Under Heaven's Shining Stars by Jean Grainger

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Under Heaven's Shining Stars

By: Jean Grainger

4.47

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

For three young boys, Liam, Patrick, and Hugo, life in Ireland of the 1960s proves to be both idyll…

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1. The Girls from See Saw Lane (Brighton Girls Trilogy, #2)

By: Sandy Taylor

4.32

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Brighton 1963. Mary Pickles and I walked along the street with our arms linked, looking in shop win… read more

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  • contemporary
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. When We Danced at the End of the Pier (Brighton Girls Trilogy #1)

By: Sandy Taylor

4.43

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

Brighton 1930: Maureen O’Connell is a carefree girl, but her family is on the brink of tragedy, war… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Counting Chimneys (Brighton Girls Trilogy, #3)

By: Sandy Taylor

4.42

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

Brighton 1969: Dottie Perks steps off the train and breathes in the sea air, the smell of fish and … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Housewarming (The Guesthouse on the Green #11)

By: Michelle Vernal

4.58

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the guesthouse on the Green, where Mammy and her girls will make you feel part of the fa… read more

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  • fiction
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5. The Keeper of the Irish Secret (Magnolia Manor #1)

By: Susanne O'Leary

4.22

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

A mysterious old house, an unforgettable romance and a lost granddaughter escaping to the stunning … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. The Secrets of Inishbeg Cove (Inishbeg Cove #1)

By: Izzy Bayliss

4.48

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

The Heartbreaking Family Saga set along Ireland's rugged Atlantic Coast One Letter, a Lifetime o… read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. The Irish Key (Emerald Isles)

By: Daisy O'Shea

4.43

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Take the key, my pet. I can’t ever go back. The last letter I had from Ireland was clear about tha… read more

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  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Irish Nanny

By: Sandy Taylor

4.31

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

There is a fierce wind blowing in from the sea, as I step off the boat towards my new life in Ameri… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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9. Return to the Irish Boarding House (The Irish Boarding House #2)

By: Sandy Taylor

4.32

Format: 343 pages, ebook

Mary Kate takes a deep breath as she stands outside 24 Merrion Square with its red front door and p… read more

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  • historical
  • ireland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Orphan's Daughter

By: Sandy Taylor

4.48

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Ireland, 1924. For thirteen-year-old Nora Doyle every day is a fight for survival. In the rural Iri… read more

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  • historical
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. The Irish Boarding House (The Irish Boarding House #1)

By: Sandy Taylor

4.15

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

24 Merrion Square. The house stands empty, the old stone steps overgrown with thorny rose bushes. B… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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12. The Sisters at the Last House Before the Sea (Heaven's Cove, #6)

By: Liz Eeles

4.58

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

Sitting by the window with views of the shining sea, a white-haired woman seals an envelope with tr… read more

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  • contemporary
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13. The O'Maras go Greek (The Guesthouse on the Green #14)

By: Michelle Vernal

4.60

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the guesthouse on the Green, where Mammy and her girls will make you feel part of the fa… read more

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14. The Little Orphan Girl

By: Sandy Taylor

4.38

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

For readers of Orphan Train and The Throwaway Children, this unforgettable story of one little Iris… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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15. The Runaway Children

By: Sandy Taylor

4.39

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-wrenching, unforgettable story of two evacuee sisters during the Second World War… Perfect … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Coming Home to Inishbeg Cove (Inishbeg Cove #2)

By: Izzy Bayliss

4.56

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

What Readers are saying about Izzy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I highly recommend all her books, everyone always le… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Escape to Inishbeg Cove (Inishbeg Cove #3)

By: Izzy Bayliss

4.49

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

A breath-taking story about second chances and small-town secrets that will whisk you away to the w… read more

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  • contemporary
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18. Irish Holiday (Raven Hill Farm Mysteries #1)

By: Jane E. Drew

4.36

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Quinn is in the middle of a midlife crisis. Forty-six, divorced, and having recently walked away fr… read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction
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19. The Lost Mother of Ireland (Starlight Cottages #6)

By: Susanne O'Leary

4.49

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

A completely gripping and unforgettable story of long-lost family secrets and forbidden romance tha… read more

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  • irish literature
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20. The Lost Letters of Ireland (Starlight Cottages, #5)

By: Susanne O'Leary

4.42

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

A captivating story about long-lost family secrets that will whisk you away to the village of Sandy… read more

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  • irish literature
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21. Irish Stones (Raven Hill Farm Mysteries #2)

By: Jane E. Drew

4.45

Format: 87 pages, Kindle Edition

Quinn and Fiona have settled into their new life on Raven Hill Farm in West Cork. They have great f… read more

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22. The Irish Grave (Raven Hill Farm Mysteries #4)

By: Jane E. Drew

4.33

Format: 85 pages, Kindle Edition

Quinn and Fiona get an unexpected surprise when Dermot Brennan, the local Garda from the little tow… read more

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23. Agnes and the Twisted Truth (Raven Hill Farm Mysteries #3)

By: Jane E. Drew

4.43

Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition

Quinn feels obligated to attend a party given by Agnes Meek, one of her former patients at the ment… read more

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24. The Irish Knowing (Raven Hill Farm Mysteries #6)

By: Jane E. Drew

4.48

Format: 89 pages, Kindle Edition

Quinn finds herself in an embarrassing situation when an old high school classmate who now lives in… read more

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25. Nighttime Passes, Morning Comes: An Emotional Family Drama set during World War II (The Days of War Series Book 2)

By: Jonathan Cullen

4.42

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

With America now in the war, the lives of the Nolan family, like the country, are headinginto the u… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Cullen's Nighttime Passes, Morning Comes: An Emotional Family Drama set during World War II (The Days of War Series Book 2) book and Jean Grainger's Under Heaven's Shining Stars

  • historical fiction
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26. Miracles in Wild Rose Bay (Sandy Cove #6)

By: Susanne O'Leary

4.53

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

A truly unforgettable Irish romance set on the shores of the Wild Atlantic Way. Arriving in Sand… read more

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27. Under Heaven's Shining Stars

By: Jean Grainger

4.47

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

For three young boys, Liam, Patrick, and Hugo, life in Ireland of the 1960s proves to be both idyll… read more

Similar categories in Jean Grainger's Under Heaven's Shining Stars book and Jean Grainger's Under Heaven's Shining Stars

  • historical
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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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28. An Irish Reckoning: A Raven Hill Farm Mystery (Raven Hill Farm Mysteries Book 7)

By: Jane E. Drew

4.43

Format: 90 pages, Kindle Edition

Quinn and her close-knit circle of friends are thrust into yet another murder investigation in the … read more

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29. The Killing Snows (Irish Famine, #1)

By: Charles Egan

4.16

Format: 421 pages, Kindle Edition

This book is fiction. The story that inspired it was not. In 1990, a box of very old documents wa… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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30. The Rose Arbor

By: Rhys Bowen

4.30

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

An investigation into a girl’s disappearance uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II in a ha… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. The Irish Child

By: Daisy O'Shea

4.52

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

A salty breeze whips the tears from my eyes as I stare out at the emerald Irish Sea. Everything I’v… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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