This Hostel Life
By: Melatu Uche Okorie
3.99
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
Melatu Uche Okorie tells stories of migrant women in a hidden Ireland. From a day in the life of wo…
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1. Woman at Point Zero
By: Nawal El Saadawi , Sherif Hetata
4.19
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells o… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
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"Who said to kill does not require gentleness?"-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
"Ada baiknya bahwa saya tetap awam terhadap kenyataan itu."-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
"Sastra yang baik selalu merupakan cermin sebuah masyarakat."-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
"I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die."-Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
2. The Dead
By: James Joyce
3.99
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."-James Joyce, The Dead
"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"-James Joyce, The Dead
"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"-James Joyce, The Dead
"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pareció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"-James Joyce, The Dead
3. Miss Julie
By: David French , August Strindberg
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic yo… read more
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- fiction
4. The Spinning Heart
By: Donal Ryan
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Hardcover
In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As v… read more
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- literary fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
5. Asking For It
By: Louise O'Neill
3.16
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, … read more
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- realistic fiction
- irish literature
- fiction
6. King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
By: H. Rider Haggard
3.79
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its first publ… read more
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- africa
- fiction
"A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish."-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
"Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it."-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
"When one can only do one thing well, one likes to keep up one’s reputation in that thing."-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
"Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble."-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
7. The Garden Party
By: Katherine Mansfield
3.62
Format: None pages, ebook
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more
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8. Dinosaurs On Other Planets
By: Danielle McLaughlin
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
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9. Solar Bones
By: Mike McCormack
3.00
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
the Angelus bell ringing out over its villages and townlands, over the fields and hills and bogs in… read more
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10. Young Skins
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Making a remarkable entrance onto the Irish and UK literary scene with rave reviews in The Sunday T… read more
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11. The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
By: Mary Prince
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Born in Bermuda to a house slave in 1788, Mary Prince suffered the first of many soul-shattering ex… read more
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12. Exit West
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independ… read more
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13. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
By: Eimear McBride
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young w… read more
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14. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
By: Ayi Kwei Armah
3.71
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
A railway freight clerk in Ghana attempts to hold out against the pressures that impel him toward c… read more
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15. 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
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"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
16. 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
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"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
17. A Golden Age (Bangla Desh, #1)
By: Tahmima Anam
3.80
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
Set against the backdrop of the Bangladesh War of Independence, A Golden Age is a story of passion … read more
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"How very close it is to illness. The loose, restless limbs. The feverish cheeks. The burning salt of the heart. The prickle of sweat. Love. "-Tahmima Anam, A Golden Age (Bangla Desh, #1)
"There was only one thing to do, she decided: make pickles. The mangoes on the tree were just about ready: grassy-green and tongue-smackingly sour. She asked the boys to pick them from the tree. When …"-Tahmima Anam, A Golden Age (Bangla Desh, #1)
18. Madres y camioneros
By: Ivana Dobrakovová
3.75
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Svetlana, Ivana, Olivia, Lara y Veronika son cinco mujeres varadas en una vida que detestan, cinco … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
19. That Old Country Music
By: Kevin Barry
3.90
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
A collection of short stories of rural Ireland in the classic Irish mode: full of love (and sex), m… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
20. Todo va a mejorar
By: Almudena Grandes
3.86
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
España en un futuro próximo. Un nuevo partido político llamado Movimiento Ciudadano ¡Soluciones Ya!… read more
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21. 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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22. Why The Moon Travels
By: Oein DeBharduin
4.34
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Why the moon travels is a haunting collection of twenty tales rooted in the oral tradition of the I… read more
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- college
- short stories
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
23. Soeurs (Commandant Martin Servaz, #5)
By: Bernard Minier
3.92
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Mai 1993. Deux sœurs, Alice, 20 ans, et Ambre, 21 ans, sont retrouvées mortes en bordure de Garonne… read more
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24. This Hostel Life
By: Melatu Uche Okorie
3.99
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
Melatu Uche Okorie tells stories of migrant women in a hidden Ireland. From a day in the life of wo… read more
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- race
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- nigeria
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- short stories
- college
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
25. Collective Amnesia
By: Koleka Putuma
4.46
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This highly-anticipated debut collection from one of the country's most acclaimed young voices mark… read more
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- africa
26. Big Date Energy
By: Bethany Rutter
3.52
Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition
Fran’s done with looking for long-term love.She’s got Big Date Energy…Serial monogamist Fran has wa… read more
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27. The Amusements
By: Aingeala Flannery
3.52
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season,… read more
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28. Le regole dello Shangai
By: Erri De Luca
3.71
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Lei è una giovane gitana che nella notte del suo fidanzamento scappa dalla famiglia per sottrarsi a… read more
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29. Vacaciones en el Cáucaso
By: Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
3.88
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Una mañana de julio de 1914, Ana, una adolescente de Constantinopla, abandona la casa familiar dond… read more
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30. Where I End
By: Sophie White
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
My mother. At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her. Through our thin shar… read more
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