9 must-read nonfiction books like A Light That Never Goes Out: A Memoir by Keelin Shanley

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A Light That Never Goes Out: A Memoir

By: Keelin Shanley

4.43

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

When Keelin Shanley passed away aged 51, it was hard to grasp that someone so filled with life was …

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1. The Other Side Of The Wall

By: Andrea Mara

4.05

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

When Sylvia looks out her bedroom window at night and sees a child face down in the pond next door,… read more

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2. Watermelon (Walsh Family, #1)

By: Marian Keyes

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Marian Keyes begins Watermelonwith a rather inauspicious romantic opening when the heroine's husban… read more

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3. Almost the Perfect Murder: The Killing of Elaine O'Hara, the Extraordinary Garda Investigation and the Trial That Stunned the Nation: The Only Complete Inside Account

By: Paul Williams

3.88

Format: 588 pages,

For over a year everyone assumed missing Dublin woman Elaine O'Hara had ended her own life. But aft… read more

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4. Unraveling Oliver

By: Liz Nugent

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her." So begins Liz Nugent's astonishing debut … read more

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5. 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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"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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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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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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8. 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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"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

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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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"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

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10. I Let Him Go

By: Denise Fergus

4.55

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, with an updated chapter from Denise. 'I was crying so much I couldn't… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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11. Strange Sally Diamond

By: Liz Nugent

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father… read more

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12. No One Saw a Thing

By: Andrea Mara

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two children get on the train. Only one gets off...No one saw it happen.You stand on a crowded tube… read more

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13. The Playdate: A startling and deliciously pitch-dark story from leafy suburbia

By: Clara Dillon

3.88

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

'A riveting tale … gripping’ The Irish Independent‘An incredibly gripping and entertaining page-tur… read more

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14. Rememberings

By: Sinéad O'Connor

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."

-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

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15. In Her Place

By: Edel Coffey

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 bestselling author of Breaking Point and winner of Crime Novel of the Year at the An … read more

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16. Betrayal

By: Lesley Pearse

4.17

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

Eve should never have married Don Hathaway. Yes, he gave her two beautiful children - Olly and Tabi… read more

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17. Body of Truth

By: Marie Cassidy

3.91

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

IN THE HUNT FOR A KILLER THE SCARS OF DEATH DON'T LIE FROM IRELAND'S FORMER STATE PATHOLOGIST MA… read more

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18. 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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  • nonfiction
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19. Keira & Me: A tale of two best friends and how they saved each other, the new bestseller from the Supervet

By: Noel Fitzpatrick

4.45

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

'With you by my side, just doing my best was the best thing to do.' Keira is an extraordinary dog.… read more

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20. The Girl from Donegal

By: Carmel Harrington

4.34

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Donegal, Ireland, 1939 As the world teeters on the brink of WWII, Eliza Lavery is alone in the worl… read more

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21. Aisling Ever After

By: Emer McLysaght

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Living in the Big Apple feels like a movie, especially when Aisling finds her ex-boyfriend John on … read more

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22. Milk: On Motherhood and Madness

By: Alice Kinsella

3.82

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A map of motherhood, Milk is at once a gentle and meditative story of one woman’s experience of new… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Strange Flowers

By: Donal Ryan

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parent… read more

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24. Lying in Wait

By: Liz Nugent

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

My husband did not mean to kill Annie Doyle, but the lying tramp deserved it. On the surface, L… read more

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25. Jojo: Finally Home

By: Johannes Radebe

4.45

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!* Champion dancer and Strictly Come Dancing professional Jo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Breaking Point

By: Edel Coffey

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

An innocent mistake. A lifetime of guilt. Susannah has two beautiful daughters, a high-flying me… read more

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27. A Light That Never Goes Out: A Memoir

By: Keelin Shanley

4.43

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

When Keelin Shanley passed away aged 51, it was hard to grasp that someone so filled with life was … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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28. Fight or Flight: My Life, My Choices

By: Keith Earls

4.35

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

  ★ AN POST IRISH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 WINNER! ★ Fight Or My Life, My Choices is the autob… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of An Emergency Physician

By: Chris Luke

3.50

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Concern. Compassion. Doubt. Despair. Anger. Hope.Imagine juggling these feelings every day in a sit… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Overcoming: A Memoir

By: Vicky Phelan

4.71

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

When Vicky Phelan delivered an emotionally charged statement from the steps of the Four Courts in A… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. With Hope in Your Heart: The Seán Cox Story

By: Martina Cox

4.71

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

'I often get asked about leadership in football, but in "real life" I can think of no greater examp… read more

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Rob Rinder

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3.87

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