From a Low and Quiet Sea
By: Donal Ryan
3.78
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John…
Want to Read $ 12.99"he waited for the water to carry him down, and fill him and slough his flesh and salt his guilty bones. But the water wouldn't take him."-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
"he waited for the water to carry him down, and fill him and slough his flesh and salt his guilty bones. But the water wouldn't take him."-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
"he waited for the water to carry him down, and fill him and slough his flesh and salt his guilty bones. But the water wouldn't take him."-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
"Trees live, like you and me, long lives, and they know things. They know the rule, the only one that's real and must be kept. What's the rule? You know. I've told you lots of times before. Be kind."-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
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1. The Blackwater Lightship
By: Colm Tóibín
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come toge… read more
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2. Academy Street
By: Mary Costello
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
'With extraordinary devotion, Mary Costello brings to life a woman who would otherwise have faded i… read more
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3. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
4. Amongst Women
By: John McGahern
3.00
Format: 81 pages,
Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla le… read more
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5. 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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"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
6. 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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"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
7. 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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"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
8. 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
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9. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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10. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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11. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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"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
12. This Plague of Souls
By: Mike McCormack
3.09
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
The follow-up to Booker-listed literary sensation Solar Bones is a terse metaphysical thriller, nam… read more
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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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"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. 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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"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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4.02
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16. Kala
By: Colin Walsh
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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17. From a Low and Quiet Sea
By: Donal Ryan
3.78
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John… read more
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"he waited for the water to carry him down, and fill him and slough his flesh and salt his guilty bones. But the water wouldn't take him."-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
"Trees live, like you and me, long lives, and they know things. They know the rule, the only one that's real and must be kept. What's the rule? You know. I've told you lots of times before. Be kind."-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
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18. Winter People
By: Gráinne Murphy
4.10
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Sis Cotter has lived her whole life in a small house by her beloved beach. Here, she grew up, reare… read more
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19. The Wild Laughter
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.83
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
It's 2008, and the Celtic Tiger has left devastation in its wake. Brothers Hart and Cormac Black ar… read more
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By: Gráinne Murphy
3.85
Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition
Can we ever truly escape our past? The Ghostlights is the poignant story of a family of Irish wome… read more
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21. 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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