Ruth & Pen
By: Emilie Pine
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Dublin, 7th October 2019. One day, one city, two women - Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, …
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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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- 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
2. 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
- 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
3. Juno Loves Legs
By: Karl Geary
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Juno loves Legs. She's loved him since their first encounter at school in Dublin, the time she foug… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
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- contemporary
- ireland
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- queer
4. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
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- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
5. 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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- literary fiction
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- ireland
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- audiobook
6. Blue Sisters
By: Coco Mellors
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- queer
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters
7. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
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- 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
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
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- 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
9. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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- literary fiction
- 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
10. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
11. Idol
By: Louise O'Neill
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'Follow your heart and speak your truth.'For Samantha Miller's young fans - her 'girls' - she's eve… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- irish literature
- audiobook
"But she'd clawed her way out of addiction because she believed that she was destined for greater things than an undignified death slumped over a toilet cistern"-Louise O'Neill, Idol
12. 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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- lgbt
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- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
13. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
14. The Mess We’re In
By: Annie Macmanus
3.40
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready. It’s the turn of the millennium and, la… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
15. None of This Is Serious
By: Catherine Prasifka
3.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and S… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"I'm tired of crying over stupid boys who aren't worth it."-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious
"I'm trapped by the concept of the present, by the idea that time is moving forward and I'm witnessing it."-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious
"I need him, like this, right now. The problem is I can't need him any more. I don't want to stop being with him, but I can't be with him."-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious
"Isn't it weird to think that everything is so unstable? Like, we all believe in the magic of technology; it feels so permanent but, just like that, it's gone."-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious
16. The Polite Act of Drowning
By: Charleen Hurtubise
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The luminous debut novel from one of Ireland's finest storytellers 'The Polite Act of Drowning is a… read more
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- ireland
- fiction
- audiobook
17. The Happy Couple
By: Naoise Dolan
3.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- queer
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
18. Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin
By: Katja Oskamp
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Katja Oskamp ist Mitte vierzig, als ihr das Leben fad wird. Das Kind ist aus dem Haus, der Mann ist… read more
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- literary fiction
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"One of the women was a blonde from Eastern Europe who wore sweaters interwoven with gold. She had the loveliest uniform out of all of us, a tunic with a cinched waist and diagonally arranged buttons.…"-Katja Oskamp, Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin
19. Snowflake
By: Louise Nealon
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely talented young Irish writer makes her literary debut with this powerful and haunting… read more
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- fiction
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- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
20. Milk: On Motherhood and Madness
By: Alice Kinsella
3.82
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
A map of motherhood, Milk is at once a gentle and meditative story of one woman’s experience of new… read more
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- irish literature
- audiobook
21. The Home Scar
By: Kathleen MacMahon
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the Women's Prize longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky'The home scar - that's what they c… read more
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- ireland
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22. Ruth & Pen
By: Emilie Pine
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Dublin, 7th October 2019. One day, one city, two women - Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, … read more
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- lesbian
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- queer
23. This Is How You Remember It
By: Catherine Prasifka
4.11
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you sp… read more
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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
24. My Hot Friend
By: Sophie White
4.11
Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition
Lexi is on top of the world The podcast she co-hosts with her ride-or-die bestie is going stratosp… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
25. Hagstone
By: Sinéad Gleeson
3.63
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more
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26. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
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- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
27. There's Been a Little Incident
By: Alice Ryan
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
A witty and warm debut novel from a young Irish writer. A story of family, grief, and the ways we c… read more
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- contemporary
- ireland
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28. Duffy and Son
By: Damien Owens
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A heart-warming and hilarious novel about life, love, and the weight of all we leave unsaid, Duffy … read more
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- contemporary
- ireland
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29. 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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- lesbian
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
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- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
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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- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- queer
31. Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows
By: Sophie White
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Nora Ephron meets Bram Stoker in Sophie White's vivid and ambitious literary non-fiction collection… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- contemporary
