Shadowplay
By: Joseph O'Connor
3.86
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
1878- The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people begin their life together, a life that…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Confronting authority, one has only two choices: Surrender, or try to confuse it."-Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
"Confronting authority, one has only two choices: Surrender, or try to confuse it."-Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
"All the evil in the world, it comes from shattered love. [Ellen Terry, to Bram Stoker]"-Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
"All the evil in the world, it comes from shattered love. [Ellen Terry, to Bram Stoker]"-Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
If you liked the ireland plot in Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor , here is a list of 11 books like this:
1. That They May Face The Rising Sun
By: John McGahern
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely considered to be the finest Irish writer of fiction at work today, John McGahern gives us a … read more
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- literary fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
2. The Gallows Curse
By: Karen Maitland
3.97
Format: 570 pages, Hardcover
Set in the reign of King John, when the whole of England was under sentence of excommunication (amo… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
3. Days Without End
By: Sebastian Barry
2.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, "a master storyteller" (Wall Street Jo… read more
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4. The Longest Journey
By: E.M. Forster , Gilbert Adair , None
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amou… read more
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5. Deaf Sentence
By: David Lodge
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Funny and moving by turns, Deaf Sentence is a witty, original and absorbing account of one man's ef… read more
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7. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
8. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
9. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
10. Water
By: John Boyne
4.33
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
11. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
12. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
13. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
14. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
15. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
16. The Seventh Son
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.60
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
17. The Winter List (Damian Seeker #6)
By: S.G. MacLean
4.38
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
Summer, 1660. Cromwell is dead and Charles Stuart has been restored to the throne. Men who supporte… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
18. Shadowplay
By: Joseph O'Connor
3.86
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
1878- The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people begin their life together, a life that… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Joseph O'Connor's Shadowplay book and Joseph O'Connor's Shadowplay
- gothic
- literary fiction
- british literature
- 19th century
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"Confronting authority, one has only two choices: Surrender, or try to confuse it."-Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
"All the evil in the world, it comes from shattered love. [Ellen Terry, to Bram Stoker]"-Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
"The belief that wickedness is the province of monsters, not men, is consoling to those who are young. [Bram Stoker]"-Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
"You write for the winds, uncorrupted by hope and untouched by hope's sibling, despair. [Bram Stoker, to Walt Whitman]"-Joseph O'Connor, Shadowplay
19. Actress
By: Anne Enright
3.44
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter Norah retraces her mother’s celebrated… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
20. The Slowworm's Song
By: Andrew Miller
4.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An innocent-looking letter drops on to the doormat in Stephen Rose's Somerset home like an unexplod… read more
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- literary fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
21. Rare Singles
By: Benjamin Myers
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul mu… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
