• Helping you understand the Irish potato famine
• Understanding China’s great famine
• Irish history and different aspects of it
• Genuinely reflect the time they are set in
• Nineteenth and twentieth century irish women
• Unusual history that fascinated me
• Climate change today and in the past
• Historical fiction with a twist
• Explaining the politics behind hunger
• Ireland and the Irish
• Authentically (and engagingly) capture trauma
• 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
• Irish books by Irish authors I like to rave about
• Maritime social history
• Middle grade that makes history leap off the page