Tennis Lessons
By: Susannah Dickey
3.43
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
You know you're strange and wrong. You've known it from the beginning. This is the voice that r…
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1. Promising Young Women
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For readers of THE COWS, SWEETBITTER or CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS - as well as for fans of FLEABAG… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- irish literature
2. Scenes of a Graphic Nature
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'Do you know what céad mile fáilte means?' 'A hundred thousand welcomes.' 'Not a hundred thousand… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
3. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
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
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
5. 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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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
6. The Rachel Incident
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately tr… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- ireland
- irish literature
"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
7. Okay Days
By: Jenny Mustard
3.76
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
‘A perfect Millennial love story ... with its acidic dialogue and languid sex scenes. A charming an… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
"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…"-Jenny Mustard, Okay Days
8. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
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
- adult
- ireland
- irish literature
"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. Sunburn
By: Chloe Michelle Howarth
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more
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- coming of age
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
"My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her."-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn
11. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way
By: Rebecca Wait
4.03
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
12. When We Were Friends
By: Holly Bourne
3.90
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
From the day they first meet as teenagers, Fern and Jessica are best friends. Despite their differe… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
13. Talking at Night
By: Claire Daverley
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They’re opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Milk Teeth
By: Jessica Andrews
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
15. Cleopatra and Frankenstein
By: Coco Mellors
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant d… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"And you’re in love?"-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"People are like this too, you know,"-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
16. Wet Paint
By: Chloë Ashby
3.79
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
Since the death of her best friend Grace, twenty-six-year-old Eve has learned to keep everything an… read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- mental health
17. Boy Parts
By: Eliza Clark
3.77
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Was it my idea to have him hurt me, or did he just let me think it was?"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"My mam always used to tell me that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. And Eddie from Tesco is a fly, but he's got a taste for vinegar. It's like vinegar is all he's ever had from peop…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"You want to think you're not like other women, but you are, you know. You're still... that's still how the rest of the world, how men are going to see you. Like, I know you hate labels, but you like.…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
"Do you like it rough? I think so. I think I must. Men are rough, aren't they? Have I always had a taste for rough stuff, or did I acquire that? In the back of Lesley's car, on the floor of a friend's…"-Eliza Clark, Boy Parts
18. 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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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
19. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- ireland
- irish literature
"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
20. Sugar, Baby
By: Celine Saintclare
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Luster and Queenie , an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of th… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"It's so deeply entrenched in me, the Fear of God, so much more strongly than the belief."-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"The thought of having a relationship with my kids like the one I have with my mum, a scam on both sides, makes me want to vomit."-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"It is all beginning to make sense; the gifts he gives like offerings, the golden temple of a Miami house. Oracles, orgies, lusty Greek and Roman gods, apples and pomegranates. Ceremonial robes as des…"-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"You're young and that counts for a lot,' she says. 'And you're pretty. It's like currency, like...a bunch of casino chips in the game of life. You can keep them locked up in the back of a drawer and …"-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
21. Stargazer
By: Laurie Petrou
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Summer 1995. Diana and Aurelle are inseparable, living together in Diana's parents' cottage on the … read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
22. Saltwater
By: Jessica Andrews
3.79
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
Lucy is lost. Growing up in the north east she wanted more. When others were thinking about the Nis… read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- ireland
"I want it and I do not want it. I want to be visible and I want to be invisible, or perhaps I want to be visible to some people and not to others. It seems unfair that I can't choose."-Jessica Andrews, Saltwater
"I would like to have something to believe in, but it is difficult. Everything my generation was promised got blown away like clouds of smoke curling from the ends of cigarettes in the mouths of polit…"-Jessica Andrews, Saltwater
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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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- ireland
24. Tennis Lessons
By: Susannah Dickey
3.43
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
You know you're strange and wrong. You've known it from the beginning. This is the voice that r… read more
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- coming of age
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- novels
- adult
- ireland
- irish literature
25. Sister of Mine
By: Laurie Petrou
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
*Globe & Mail Globe 100 Book. A debut novel of domestic suspense in the vein of Liane Moriarty, Sh… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
26. Just for Today
By: Nell Hudson
3.83
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
'A yearning, tenderly bruising beauty of a book and a brilliant portrayal of friendship in the roar… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
27. Notes on Heartbreak
By: Annie Lord
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a b… read more
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- coming of age
- contemporary
- adult
- mental health
"Why suffer for something ordinary?"-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"That's the thing about pain: we forget it."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
28. Young Women
By: Jessica Moor
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Everyone's got that history, I guess. Everyone's got a story. When Emily meets the enigmatic and da… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
29. The Quiet Whispers Never Stop
By: Olivia Fitzsimons
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In 1982, Nuala Malin struggles to stay connected, to her husband, to motherhood, to the smallness o… read more
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- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
30. Second Self
By: Chloë Ashby
3.81
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
When Cathy and Noah first got together neither saw children in their future. Eight years later, the… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
31. Girls
By: Kirsty Capes
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
