8 best-selling historical books like The Colony by Audrey Magee

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Similar categories in Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• 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

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• 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

Similar categories in Graeme Macrae Burnet's Case Study book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• novels

"Forget about meaning’, he said. ‘Life’s not about meaning, it’s about experience."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

"Her handbag, he said, was found on the scene. I made a mental note to carry out a thorough spring clean of contents of my own bag before throwing myself in front of any trains."

-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study

Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• 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

Similar categories in Shehan Karunatilaka's The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"Even suicide requires perseverance."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Similar categories in Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• audiobook

Similar categories in NoViolet Bulawayo's Glory book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• audiobook

"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

Similar categories in Alan Garner's Treacle Walker book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• fiction
• novels

Similar categories in Paul Murray's The Bee Sting book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

Similar categories in Elaine Feeney's How to Build a Boat book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• 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

Similar categories in Colin Barrett's Wild Houses book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• 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

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Megan Nolan's Ordinary Human Failings book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Louise Kennedy's Trespasses book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

Similar categories in Chetna Maroo's Western Lane book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• audiobook

Similar categories in Percival Everett's The Trees book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• fiction
• historical fiction

"Unknown Male is a name,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."

-Percival Everett, The Trees

Similar categories in Hisham Matar's My Friends book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• contemporary
• novels

"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

Similar categories in Audrey Magee's The Colony book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• art
• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• novels
• ireland
• irish literature
• audiobook

Similar categories in Maddie Mortimer's Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• audiobook

"the best way to ruin a perfect moment is by letting it continue."

-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

"For we inherit the haunts of our mothers; we are left with the guests they let in."

-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

"It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers."

-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

"Sometimes it takes a lifetime to receive the world in a language different to your own; to let the shape and taste and sense of a thing eclipse its own translation."

-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Audrey Magee's The Colony

• literary fiction
• historical
• fiction
• historical fiction
• audiobook

"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held