The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
By: John Connell
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Shepherd’s Life, a poignant memoir—and #1 Irish bestseller—about a wayward son’s re…
Want to Read $ 9.99"To be a farmer is to be a student forever, for each day brings something new."-John Connell, The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
"To be a farmer is to be a student forever, for each day brings something new."-John Connell, The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
"I do this because we have always done this. I do this in a way beyond religion. I do this in a way of culture"-John Connell, The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
"I do this because we have always done this. I do this in a way beyond religion. I do this in a way of culture"-John Connell, The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
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1. Wildflower Girl (Children of the Famine #2)
By: Marita Conlon-McKenna
4.20
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
The second book in the Famine Trilogy begun with Under the Hawthorne Tree. At seven, Peggy made a t… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
2. The Little Red Chairs
By: Edna O'Brien
3.24
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
The much-anticipated new novel from the literary world's master of storytelling, Edna O'Brien. A… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"My friends I tell you this, we are a jolly group but put us in uniform and all that change. In war I don’t know who my brother. In war I don’t know who my friend. War make everybody savage. Who can s…"-Edna O'Brien, The Little Red Chairs
3. Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
By: Daniel L. Everett
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett w… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
4. Fields of Home
By: P.J. Lynch , Marita Conlon-McKenna , Donald Teskey
3.75
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
The final book in the Children of the Famine trilogy, set during the Irish famine. Michael is a sta… read more
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- ireland
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5. Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
By: John O'Donohue
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging. John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you… read more
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- nonfiction
- ireland
6. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
By: Samuel Johnson , James Boswell , Peter Levi
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
Samuel Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotlandand James Boswell's The Journal of a T… read more
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7. Sweeney Astray
By: Seamus Heaney
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sw… read more
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8. The Grass is Singing
By: Doris Lessing
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of h… read more
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9. The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
By: James Rebanks
4.18
Format: 578 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James … read more
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10. The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
By: Adam Nicolson
3.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. In the sea is… read more
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- nonfiction
- animals
- nature
"The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes."-Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
11. Mother of Strangers
By: Suad Amiry
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beg… read more
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12. 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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- irish literature
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"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
13. All Down Darkness Wide
By: Seán Hewitt
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more
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- biography memoir
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- memoir
"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
14. 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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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
15. The Trial
By: Jo Spain
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical… read more
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16. Ayoade On Top
By: Richard Ayoade
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the T… read more
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- biography
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"We can't live in dreams any more that we can live in the clouds or under socialism."-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top
"Because to be moved by something made by someone who has done something bad would mean that a bad person possesses the capacity to connect to us; that they haven't, somehow, forfeited their humanity."-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top
"When I buy Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, the acquisitive part of me is buying it for the deluded part of me that thinks I’ll read it one day, while the archivist part of me keeps it on a shelf with …"-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top
"This shadowy, depersonalised, frankly militaristic ‘they’ (why should I call the pilot ‘captain’ – I didn’t join his army) is what makes commercial air travel so Orwellian. Say you want to take a nap…"-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top
17. The Wisdom of Sheep: Observations from a Family Farm
By: Rosamund Young
3.81
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A touching, wise and surprising chronicle of the rich inner lives of animals, drawn from Rosamund Y… read more
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18. The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
By: John Connell
3.86
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Shepherd’s Life, a poignant memoir—and #1 Irish bestseller—about a wayward son’s re… read more
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- family
- ireland
- irish literature
- nature
"To be a farmer is to be a student forever, for each day brings something new."-John Connell, The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
"I do this because we have always done this. I do this in a way beyond religion. I do this in a way of culture"-John Connell, The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
"Senility is best described in the old tongue, duine le Dia, for in that phrase is a kinder, more understanding view of the condition. Its literal meaning is “a person of God,"-John Connell, The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
19. The Trial of Lotta Rae
By: Siobhan MacGowan
3.99
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Halloween night, 1906. Lotta Rae is assaulted by a wealthy gentleman and bravely takes him to trial… read more
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20. Madhouse: The naked truth about my chaotic childhood, losing my mind and finding a place to call home
By: PJ Gallagher
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Nothing about PJ Gallagher's life has followed the usual script . . . Adopted at six months old by … read more
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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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