11 best-selling ireland books like Service by Sarah Gilmartin

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Service

By: Sarah Gilmartin

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?…

If you liked the ireland plot in Service by Sarah Gilmartin , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

Similar categories in Michael Magee's Close to Home book and Sarah Gilmartin's Service

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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2. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • book club
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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3. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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4. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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5. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • ireland
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6. Kala

By: Colin Walsh

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

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7. The Playdate: A startling and deliciously pitch-dark story from leafy suburbia

By: Clara Dillon

3.88

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

'A riveting tale … gripping’ The Irish Independent‘An incredibly gripping and entertaining page-tur… read more

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8. Breakdown

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • irish literature
  • ireland
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9. In Her Place

By: Edel Coffey

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 bestselling author of Breaking Point and winner of Crime Novel of the Year at the An … read more

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10. Service

By: Sarah Gilmartin

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Gilmartin's Service book and Sarah Gilmartin's Service

  • literary fiction
  • roman
  • feminism
  • modern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • book club
  • irish literature
  • ireland
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11. Exile

By: Aimée Walsh

3.90

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

'A brilliant novel about friendship, consent and displacement from a vibrant new voice' - Irish Exa… read more

Similar categories in Aimée Walsh's Exile book and Sarah Gilmartin's Service

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • contemporary
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12. Geordnete Verhältnisse

By: Lana Lux

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Wenn man seine Heimat verlassen muss, kommt es immer darauf an, wo man landet und welche Leute man … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • roman
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Three Little Birds

By: Sam Blake

3.78

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Two decades of secrets. One shocking discovery... When a skull is found in Lough Coyne, facial r… read more

Similar categories in Sam Blake's Three Little Birds book and Sarah Gilmartin's Service

  • irish literature
  • fiction
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14. Reality Check

By: Vicki Notaro

3.64

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

Portia Daniels' life is sorted. She has a perfect man (Jason, a hot TV producer from Ireland), a pe… read more

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15. Spirit Level

By: Richy Craven

3.94

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Danny Hook is a directionless twenty-something year old fresh out of therapy. Dealing with his disa… read more

Similar categories in Richy Craven's Spirit Level book and Sarah Gilmartin's Service

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Last Chance in Paris

By: Lynda Marron

3.95

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

When her husband suggests a romantic break, Claire feels obliged to say yes but immediately regrets… read more

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17. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

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18. I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

By: Laura Dockrill

4.06

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Ella and Lowe are teenagers when they first meet. For her, it’s love at first sight. But it’s safes… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Amendments

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel abou… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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20. Die schönste Version

By: Ruth-Maria Thomas

4.41

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

Die späten Nullerjahre, frühen 2010er Jahre in einer ostdeutschen Die schönste Version erzählt die… read more

Similar categories in Ruth-Maria Thomas's Die schönste Version book and Sarah Gilmartin's Service

  • feminism
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature

7 best-selling novels books like Service by Sarah Gilmartin

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Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

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Soldier Sailor

Claire Kilroy

4.10

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Oisín McKenna

3.96

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Service

Sarah Gilmartin

4.24

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Anne Enright

3.55

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Kate Foster

4.05

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Isabella Hammad

4.09

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Wild Houses

Colin Barrett

3.78

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