Dead as Doornails
By: Anthony Cronin
4.29
Format: 203 pages, Paperback
Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. …
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1. The Third Policeman
By: Flann O'Brien
3.97
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all."-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
2. The Ginger Man
By: J.P. Donleavy
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
3. That They May Face The Rising Sun
By: John McGahern
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely considered to be the finest Irish writer of fiction at work today, John McGahern gives us a … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
4. At Swim-Two-Birds
By: Flann O'Brien , William H. Gass
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birdsis the story of a young, l… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
5. Jesus' Son
By: Denis Johnson
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more
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6. Borstal Boy
By: Brendan Behan , Benedict Kiely
3.91
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
Brendan Behan was an Irish playwright and novelist, as well as a youthful revolutionary. In 1939, a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- ireland
- irish literature
7. Beatlebone
By: Kevin Barry
3.85
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A searing, surreal novel that blends fantasy and reality--and Beatles fandom--from one of literatur… read more
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8. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
9. Butcher's Crossing
By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more
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10. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
By: John Le Carré
4.06
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, … read more
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"As a good Socialist, I'm going for the money."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
"The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless."-John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
11. The Commitments
By: Roddy Doyle
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the sou… read more
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12. The Country Girls (The Country Girls Trilogy, #1)
By: Edna O'Brien
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meet Kate and Baba, two young Irish country girls who have spent their childhood together. As they … read more
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13. The Sea
By: John Banville
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville i… read more
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14. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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15. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
By: Anna Funder
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"People were crazy with pain and secrets."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
16. 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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- 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
17. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
18. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de 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
19. Silverview
By: John Le Carré
3.66
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past s… read more
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"Sometimes the whole of marriage was a cover story."-John Le Carré, Silverview
"Een radicaal is een radicaal. Het maakt niet uit of het een ex-communist is of een ex-wat dan ook. Het is en blijft dezelfde man. Je manier van denken verandert niet omdat die tot een andere conclusi…"-John Le Carré, Silverview
20. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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- nonfiction
- irish literature
- ireland
"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
21. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
22. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
"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
23. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon
By: Alan Partridge
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more
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- biography memoir
24. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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- biography
- irish literature
- ireland
25. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
26. Topographia Hibernica
By: Blindboy Boatclub
4.33
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The … read more
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- irish literature
27. Night Boat to Tangier
By: Kevin Barry
3.62
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"Would you say there's any end in sight, Charlie?"-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"The Past is uncertain, mobile. It shifts and rearranges back there yet."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"When we move by water, our hearts are moved. We are complicated fucking machines."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"A troubled silence descends—the old times are shifting again; they are rearranging like fault lines. The past will not relent."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
28. 100 Poems
By: Seamus Heaney
4.27
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Selected poems from a Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of … read more
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- irish literature
29. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
By: Mark O'Connell
3.74
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more
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- biography
- irish literature
- ireland
30. Dead as Doornails
By: Anthony Cronin
4.29
Format: 203 pages, Paperback
Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. … read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- ireland
- irish literature
31. A Bit of a Writer: Brendan Behan's Collected Short Prose
By: Brendan Behan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
A collection of all the articles and essays that Brendan Behan published in newspapers from 1951 to… read more
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