• Understanding China’s great famine
• Helping you understand the Irish potato famine
• Books about the sea that aren’t just about sailing on it, or fighting on it, or drowning in it, but are really about the human condition
• Climate change today and in the past
• Historical fiction with a twist
• Unusual history that fascinated me
• Ireland and the Irish
• Maritime social history
• Middle grade that makes history leap off the page
• Genuinely reflect the time they are set in
• Irish books by Irish authors I like to rave about
• Irish history and different aspects of it
• Explaining the politics behind hunger
• Authentically (and engagingly) capture trauma
• Nineteenth and twentieth century irish women