9 must-read biography books like Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale by Sean Driscoll

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Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale

By: Sean Driscoll

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

She grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate. She was presented to the Queen at Bucking…

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1. Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh

By: Toby Harnden

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

South Armagh was described as "Bandit Country" by Merlyn Rees when he was Northern Ireland Secretar… read more

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2. The Coroner's Daughter

By: Andrew Hughes

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Dublin, 1816. A young nursemaid conceals a pregnancy and then murders her newborn in the home of th… read more

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3. 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
  • 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

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4. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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  • audiobook
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5. 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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  • historical
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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6. 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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  • 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

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7. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

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  • historical
  • ireland
  • audiobook
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

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8. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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9. 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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  • historical
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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10. 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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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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11. Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood

By: Kit de Waal

4.13

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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12. Born to be a Footballer: My Autobiography

By: Liam Brady

4.19

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

"Being a footballer was my destiny." After being expelled from school for playing football for his … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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13. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War by Richard O'Rawe

14. Stakeknife's Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War

By: Richard O'Rawe

4.02

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

In this sensational exposé of British Intelligence’s top informer in the upper ranks of the IRA, Ri… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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15. Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale

By: Sean Driscoll

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

She grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate. She was presented to the Queen at Bucking… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of Cocaine Cowboys: The Deadly Rise of Ireland's Drug Lords by Nicola Tallant

16. Cocaine Cowboys: The Deadly Rise of Ireland's Drug Lords

By: Nicola Tallant

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

COCAINE COWBOYS tells the story of Ireland’s love affair with cocaine since it first washed ashore … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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17. Dont Touch My Hair

By: Emma Dabiri

4.27

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Guardian contributor BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri comes an essay collection exploring th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The words we use to describe Afro hair do not relate to its texture and, judged by another's metric, it will always come up lacking. But we do not possess a list of words that reflect the qualities o…"

-Emma Dabiri, Dont Touch My Hair

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18. Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin

By: Máiría Cahill

4.29

Format: 523 pages, Kindle Edition

NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER IN THE IRISH NON-FICTION CHARTS"Rough Beast is shocking, important and unputdow… read more

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  • history
  • irish literature
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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19. My Family and Other Rock Stars

By: Tiffany Murray

4.23

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

>In a small corner of a field in Wales, Tiffany Murray is hiding with Boggle the dog, dreaming of h… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island by Ian Cobain

20. Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island

By: Ian Cobain

4.21

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • irish literature
  • ireland
Cover of The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family by Olivia Williams

21. The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family

By: Olivia Williams

3.61

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY."For The Gondoliers-themed bir… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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Transform Your Habits

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Paul Lynch

4.10

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Michael Magee

4.06

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3.78

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