The Forester's Daughter
By: Claire Keegan
4.07
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
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1. Mrs Fox
By: Sarah Hall
4.15
Format: 399 pages, ebook
'She turns her head and smiles. Something is wrong with her face. The bones have been recarved. Her… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
2. Homeland and Other Stories
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.87
Format: None pages,
Homeland and Other Storiesoffers comic, often heart-warming but always true to life tales told as o… read more
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3. Giacomo Joyce
By: James Joyce
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Joyce's fictionalized autobiographical love story is presented together with textual and documentar… read more
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4. 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
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
"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
5. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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- novella
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
6. 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
- novella
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
7. Mr Salary
By: Sally Rooney
3.78
Format: 33 pages, Paperback
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
8. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
9. 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
- ireland
- irish literature
10. Paradise
By: Edna O'Brien
3.44
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
11. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- novella
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
12. The Forester's Daughter
By: Claire Keegan
4.07
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- love
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- ireland
- irish literature
13. Come Rain or Come Shine
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.65
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more
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- literary fiction
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Dante and the Lobster
By: Samuel Beckett
3.32
Format: None pages, None
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- short stories
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
15. Terrific Mother
By: Lorrie Moore
3.54
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
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- literary fiction
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
16. Shanti
By: Vikram Chandra
3.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
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- short stories
- fiction
17. The Country Funeral
By: John McGahern
3.84
Format: 79 pages, Paperback
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
18. The Shielding of Mrs Forbes
By: Alan Bennett
3.96
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Foot… read more
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- novella
- short stories
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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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- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
20. Cosmopolitan
By: Akhil Sharma
3.32
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
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21. Daughters of Passion
By: Julia O'Faolain
3.40
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
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- contemporary
- ireland
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