The Singularities
By: John Banville
3.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, li…
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1. 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
2. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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3. 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
4. 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
5. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
6. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
7. 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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8. 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
9. Elizabeth Finch
By: Julian Barnes
3.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and pa… read more
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"In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient human being must surely sympathise with the poor dragon."-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"I don’t know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it’s an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no ‘should’ in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"Korean woman who had escaped from the North to the South. She was talking about love. ‘If you grow up in the West,’ she said, ‘you may think romance occurs naturally, but it does not. You learn how t…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"We must certainly consider, not just in this class, but outside it, in our own turbulent and fretful lives, the element of chance. The number of people we deeply meet is strangely few. Passion may mi…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
10. 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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"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
11. 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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12. 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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"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
13. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
14. Mania
By: Lionel Shriver
3.69
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely … I was laughing out loud at the same time as my b… read more
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15. Be Mine
By: Richard Ford
3.99
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the… read more
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16. Light Over Liskeard
By: Louis de Bernières
3.72
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future.Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work… read more
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17. Nosotros
By: Manuel Vilas
2.95
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Irene cree haber vivido el matrimonio más perfecto del mundo. Años de absoluta entrega y pasión ent… read more
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18. The Kellerby Code
By: Jonny Sweet
3.51
Format: None pages, ebook
Edward is living in a world he can't afford and to which he doesn't belong. To camouflage himself, … read more
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19. The Singularities
By: John Banville
3.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, li… read more
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20. Heart, Be at Peace
By: Donal Ryan
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more
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21. The Singularity
By: Balsam Karam
3.81
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhoo… read more
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