Sinead Moriarty books

Sinead Moriarty is an Irish author known for warm, family-centered contemporary fiction including the Emma Hamilton series and standalone novels about parenthood and relationships.
Author · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction · Irish Fiction

Anthologies

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And Then He Kissed Me 2013 Buy

Children’s Literature and Culture Reading Order

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Regendering the School Story 1996 Buy
The Case of Peter Rabbit 1998 Buy
Narrating Africa 1999 Buy
How Picturebooks Work 2000 Buy
Children’s Films 2000 Buy
Empire’s Children 2000 Buy
The Presence of the Past 2000 Buy
The Poetics of Childhood 2002 Buy
A Past Without Shadow 2004 Buy
Brown Gold 2004 Buy
The Making of the Modern Child 2004 Buy
Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre 2004 Buy
Diana Wynne Jones 2005 Buy
Youth of Darkest England 2005 Buy
Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins 2006 Buy
Voracious Children 2006 Buy
National Character in South African English Children’s Literature 2006 Buy
A Critical History of French Children’s Literature: Volume Two: 1830-Present 2007 Buy
Representing Africa in Children’s Literature 2007 Buy
Once Upon a Time in a Different World: Issues and Ideas in African American Children’s Literature 2007 Buy
The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book 2007 Buy
A Critical History of French Children’s Literature: Volume One: 1600-1830 2007 Buy
Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature 2008 Buy
From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood 2008 Buy
Enterprising Youth 2008 Buy
The Crossover Novel 2008 Buy
Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives 2008 Buy
Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism 2008 Buy
Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature 2008 Buy
Neo-Imperialism in Children-s Literature About Africa 2008 Buy
Shakespeare in Children’s Literature 2008 Buy
Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People 2009 Buy
Fundamental Concepts of Children’s Literature Research 2009 Buy
Translation Under State Control 2009 Buy
Children’s Fiction about 9/11 2009 Buy
Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers 2009 Buy
Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950 2009 Buy
The Children’s Book Business 2010 Buy
New Directions in Picturebook Research 2010 Buy
The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature 2010 Buy
Humor in Contemporary Junior Literature 2010 Buy
Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children’s Literature 2010 Buy
Irish Children’s Literature and Culture 2010 Buy
Reading the Adolescent Romance 2010 Buy
Contemporary English-Language Indian Children’s Literature 2011 Buy
Beyond Pippi Longstocking 2011 Buy
The Myth of Persephone in Girls’ Fantasy Literature 2011 Buy
Landscape in Children’s Literature 2012 Buy
Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture 2012 Buy
Picturing the Wolf in Children’s Literature 2012 Buy
Textual Transformations in Children’s Literature 2013 Buy
Retelling Stories, Framing Culture 2013 Buy
: Characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900 2013 Buy
The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children’s Literature 2013 Buy
Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults 2013 Buy
Rediscoveries in Children’s Literature 2013 Buy
Second-Generation Memory and Contemporary Children’s Literature: Ghost Images 2013 Buy
Sparing the Child: Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature about Nazism and the Holocaust 2013 Buy
Beatrix Potter 2013 Buy
Transcending Boundaries 2013 Buy
The Gothic in Children’s Literature 2013 Buy
Utopian and Dystopian Writing for Children and Young Adults 2013 Buy
Recycling Red Riding Hood 2013 Buy
Representing the Holocaust in Children’s Literature 2013 Buy
Ways of Being Male 2013 Buy
Inventing the Child 2013 Buy
Childhood and Children’s Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800 2013 Buy
The Feminine Subject in Children’s Literature 2013 Buy
Pinocchio Goes Postmodern 2014 Buy
Russell Hoban/Forty Years 2014 Buy
Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children’s Literature 2014 Buy
Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction 2015 Buy
The Early Reader in Children’s Literature and Culture 2015 Buy
Children’s Literature and Culture of the First World War 2015 Buy
The Big Smallness 2016 Buy
The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child: Fantasy, Dystopia, Cyberculture 2016 Buy
Canon Constitution and Canon Change in Children’s Literature 2016 Buy
Fictions of Integration 2017 Buy
New Directions in Children’s Gothic 2017 Buy
More Words about Pictures 2017 Buy
Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children About Immigration and International Adoption 2017 Buy
The Beloved Does Not Bite 2017 Buy
Affect, Emotion, and Children’s Literature 2017 Buy
The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture 2017 Buy
Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture 2017 Buy
The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture 2018 Buy
‘The Right Thing to Read’: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910-1960 2018 Buy
Battling Girlhood 2018 Buy
Cyborg Saints 2019 Buy
Out of Reach 2019 Buy
The Arctic in Literature for Children and Young Adults 2020 Buy
Terror and Counter-Terror in Contemporary British Children’s Literature 2020 Buy
ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature 2020 Buy
Rulers of Literary Playgrounds 2020 Buy
Antarctica in British Children’s Literature 2020 Buy
Sexuality in Literature for Children and Young Adults 2021 Buy
Dust Off the Gold Medal 2021 Buy
Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism 2021 Buy
The Figure of the Child in WWI American, British, and Canadian Children’s Literature 2022 Buy
Youth Fiction and Trans Representation 2022 Buy
Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood 2022 Buy
Creative Writing in Schools 2026 Buy
African American Children in American Political Life 2026 Buy

Devlin Sisters Reading Order

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Me and My Sisters 2011 Buy
The Secrets Sisters Keep 2014 Buy

Emma Hamilton Reading Order

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The Baby Trail 2004 Buy
A Perfect Match 2005 Buy
The Right Fit 2005 Buy
From Here to Maternity 2006 Buy
Mad About You 2013 Buy

Short Stories/Novellas

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The Way We Are 2016 N/A

Standalone Novels

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In My Sister’s Shoes 2007 Buy
Whose Life Is It Anyway? / Keeping it in the Family 2008 Buy
Pieces of My Heart 2010 Buy
Sweet Child of Mine / This Child of Mine 2012 Buy
The Way We Were 2015 Buy
The Good Mother 2017 Buy
Our Secrets and Lies 2018 Buy
Seven Letters 2019 Buy
About Us 2021 Buy
The New Girl 2021 Buy
The Truth About Riley 2022 Buy
Finding Hope 2023 Buy
Good Sisters 2024 Buy
The In-laws 2025 Buy

Sinead Moriarty is an Irish author who has been writing contemporary fiction since the mid-2000s. Her books focus on families and relationships, with a particular emphasis on the experiences of women navigating parenthood, marriage, and personal identity. The Emma Hamilton series, starting with The Baby Trail in 2004, follows one woman through the challenges of starting a family.

Her standalone novels have broadened in scope while maintaining the same emotional focus. Books like The Good Mother (2017), Seven Letters (2019), and Finding Hope (2023) deal with more serious themes including grief, disability, and family secrets. Moriarty writes with humor and warmth, and her Irish settings give her fiction a grounding sense of place. She has published over twenty novels and has built a loyal readership in Ireland and the UK.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Sinead Moriarty written?

Sinead Moriarty has written 126 books across six series.

What was Sinead Moriarty's first book?

Sinead Moriarty’s first book is Regendering the School Story, published in 1996.

What themes run through Sinead Moriarty's novels?

Moriarty’s fiction centers on family relationships, motherhood, and the complications of modern Irish life. Her books often explore how families cope with unexpected challenges, from infertility and adoption to sibling rivalry and secret-keeping.

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