Orna Ross

"A highly ambitious, engaging, and evocative novel and a hauntingly captivating read." -The Sunday Independent What happens when a woman is haunted by the sins of her foremothers and the men who betrayed them? Facing the birth of her child, and single motherhood, Jo Devereux has spent the last six months in Mucknamore, the Irish village she fled twenty years ago. A trunk of letters and diaries left by her grandmother and great-aunt has revealed a...

A love forbidden by family. A feud spanning generations. A woman still yearning for freedom. Twenty years after she was, driven away from her family and the only man she ever truly loved, Jo Devereux has returned to the small Irish village where she grew up. And, this time, she wants answers. What happened to her family during the Irish Civil War? Did her great-uncle's best friend really shoot him dead? And, what did this "war of the brothers" mean...

A break from your daily struggles is only a verse away... Poet Orna Ross knows the power of words. As an award-winning author and one of the 100 most influential people in publishing (The Bookseller), Ross's passion is the power of poetry and prose to change lives. Through the Irish-born and globally-traveled poet's centering and inspiring verse, the ordinary is transformed into the eternal, loneliness is reshaped into connection, and pain into understanding....

If you're a fan of Maya Angelou, Mary Oliver, Rumi or Seamus Heaney, you'll find poems in this volume that will please you. This is the kind of inspirational poetry that celebrates life, love and the resilience of the creative spirit. While not shying away from adversity or suffering, it celebrates the dimension of life that goes beyond our cares and troubles, our thought and talk. Here you'll find poems about birth and rebirth, passion and perfection,...

Creative Self-Publishing is a comprehensive guide to every step in the publishing process, written by the Director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, and drawing on the experience of thousands of members, from those who are just starting out to those who are staggeringly successful. The book takes an individual approach, beginning with you. Your ambitions, your passion, and your sense of purpose not just as a writer, but also as a publisher,...

It has never been easier to publish a book, but publishing a book is never easy. Creative Self-Publishing is a comprehensive guide to every step in the publishing process, written by the director of the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), and drawing on the experience of thousands of ALLi members. The book's focus is how to apply your creativity to publishing, as much as to writing. It takes an individual approach, beginning with you-your passion,...