As You Were
By: Elaine Feeney
3.60
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Sinéad Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. No-one…
Want to Read $ 9.99"That part of west that was full of rocks and full up with sadness in the little sacks grown men develop under their eyes, the accumulation of tears they don't cry as they walk along, shut down, like an out-of-season seaside café."-Elaine Feeney, As You Were
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1. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
2. 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
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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"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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- 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
5. Water
By: John Boyne
4.33
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- book club
- irish literature
- ireland
- audiobook
6. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
7. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
8. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
"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
9. 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
- fiction
- 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
10. 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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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- book club
- irish literature
- ireland
- audiobook
11. Tell Me What I Am
By: Una Mannion
3.92
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
Two women wrenched apart by a family member’s disappearance must find a way back to each other in t… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- audiobook
12. Service
By: Sarah Gilmartin
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- book club
- irish literature
- ireland
13. The Saint of Lost Things
By: Tish Delaney
3.97
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
>I had dreams once, but never for anything as extravagant as happiness. Still, Auntie Bell and me h… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
14. As You Were
By: Elaine Feeney
3.60
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Sinéad Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret. No-one… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- death
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- book club
- irish literature
- ireland
- audiobook
"That part of west that was full of rocks and full up with sadness in the little sacks grown men develop under their eyes, the accumulation of tears they don't cry as they walk along, shut down, like …"-Elaine Feeney, As You Were
15. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
16. The Night Interns
By: Austin Duffy
3.36
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
Intravenous lines, catheters, bodies in distress, wounds: three young surgical interns working the … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- audiobook
17. Bad Apples (Tuva Moodyson Mystery, #4)
By: Will Dean
4.18
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
It only takes one... A murder A resident of small-town Visberg is found decapitated A fest… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
18. Barcelona
By: Mary Costello
3.58
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
In Barcelona, we meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives. In a Spanish hotel room … read more
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- irish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Stories
By: Jan Carson
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Humorous and horrifying, tender and absurd, the stories in Quickly, While They Still Have Horses of… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
20. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
- audiobook
21. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
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