Country
By: Michael Hughes
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Northern Ireland, 1996. After twenty-five years of vicious conflict, the IRA and the British ha…
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"it was raining love"-Michael Hughes, Country
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1. Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
By: Farley Mowat
4.21
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
More than a half-century ago the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent to investigate why wolves were ki… read more
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"We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a …"-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
"Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualiti…"-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
2. Cal
By: Bernard MacLaverty
3.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980's, Caltells the story of a young Catholic man living in a P… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. The Gallows Pole
By: Benjamin Myers
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
"The Gallows Pole may well turn out to be 2017's His Bloody Project. It's a windswept, brutal tale … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. Killing Rage
By: Eamon Collins , Mick McGovern
4.04
Format: 417 pages, Paperback
Since the 1970s, people have been murdering their neighbors in Northern Ireland. This book is the t… read more
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- war
- irish literature
- ireland
5. The Motel Life
By: Nate Beaty , Willy Vlautin
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
With "echoes of Of Mice and Men" (The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Lifeexplores the frustrations and … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
6. Nora Webster
By: Colm Tóibín
3.63
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed and beloved authors comes this magnificent new… read more
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7. 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
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
8. The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7)
By: Adrian McKinty
4.39
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. Milkman
By: Anna Burns
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attem… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
"how much I’d been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man"-Anna Burns, Milkman
"It’s not about being happy,’ he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I’ve ever heard."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"even though it was weird to talk on the telephone. Only eight times, seven, maybe six, ever had I done so."-Anna Burns, Milkman
10. 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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- historical
- ireland
- irish literature
11. 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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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
12. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
13. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
14. A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
By: Timothy Egan
4.12
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Ti… read more
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"Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
"I don't expect a miracle cure, but I have found that wishing for one is the most humbling form of prayer."-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
"Poverty is the ultimate freedom. You can't rob someone who has no possessions. You can't insult a person without pride."-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
"The audacity. Not only was she (Joan of Arc) a peasant girl, unschooled and clueless in the ways of power, class and the military strategy, weaponry, the mechanics of a siege, but was determined to g…"-Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
15. Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
By: Lara Maiklem
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert “mudlarker” Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in th… read more
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- historical
"The Thames is England's longest archaeological landscape and thousands of the objects that fill our museums have come from its foreshore. (p.47)"-Lara Maiklem, Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames
16. The Colony
By: Audrey Magee
4.11
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
17. Factory Girls
By: Michelle Gallen
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
"I guess failure is like posh,' Maeve said. 'Relative."-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
"No matter how shitty things got for a man, they were always shittier for a woman."-Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls
18. The Last Equation of Isaac Severy
By: Nova Jacobs
3.55
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
A mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician,… read more
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- fiction
"Her brother's desk was austere, save for a small photo of Lewis and a coffee mug featuring a math geek's coy declaration of love: √-1 <3 μ."-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy
"Please, this isn't a Poe mystery; it hardly requires a C. Auguste Dupin level of detection. It took me a few seconds. Most people go around thinking that life is magical and mysterious, filled with a…"-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy
19. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- ireland
- mythology
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
20. Country
By: Michael Hughes
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Northern Ireland, 1996. After twenty-five years of vicious conflict, the IRA and the British ha… read more
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- cultural
- literary fiction
- retellings
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- mythology
"it was raining love"-Michael Hughes, Country
21. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
