The Raptures
By: Jan Carson
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to …
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1. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
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
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"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. 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
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
"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
4. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
6. 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
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
7. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
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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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- mystery
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
"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. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- ireland
- irish literature
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
10. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
11. The Queen of Dirt Island
By: Donal Ryan
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"Happiness was a strange notion, something that was wrapped neatly, and packed into the closing scenes of television shows and daytime films, sharply relieved on the screen, but blurry in real life, a…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother had walked her to the classroom door and Mammy had cried a bit and Granny had told her to cop on and Nana then had told Granny to cop on herself and t…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"She felt sad in that moment for anyone in the world who didn’t have a mother like hers. A mother who was standing now above her quarry like a prizefighter in a swell of victory, looking slowly left a…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
12. Kala
By: Colin Walsh
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- ireland
- irish literature
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."-Colin Walsh, Kala
13. 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
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
14. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
15. These Days
By: Lucy Caldwell
3.71
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war -- so … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
16. Snowflake
By: Louise Nealon
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely talented young Irish writer makes her literary debut with this powerful and haunting… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
17. Falling Animals
By: Sheila Armstrong
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the las… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
18. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
19. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
20. Dance Move
By: Wendy Erskine
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Praise for Sweet Home: ‘An exceptional ear for dialogue, an impeccable semantic rhythm and an un… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
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21. 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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- fiction
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
22. The Raptures
By: Jan Carson
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
23. The Amusements
By: Aingeala Flannery
3.52
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season,… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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- ireland
- irish literature
24. Sweet Home
By: Wendy Erskine
3.98
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
'Wendy Erskine's first collection, Sweet Home . . . is every bit as good as her early stories in th… read more
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- fiction
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- ireland
- irish literature
25. The Quiet Whispers Never Stop
By: Olivia Fitzsimons
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In 1982, Nuala Malin struggles to stay connected, to her husband, to motherhood, to the smallness o… read more
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- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
26. There's Been a Little Incident
By: Alice Ryan
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
A witty and warm debut novel from a young Irish writer. A story of family, grief, and the ways we c… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- mystery
- ireland
- irish literature
27. Duffy and Son
By: Damien Owens
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A heart-warming and hilarious novel about life, love, and the weight of all we leave unsaid, Duffy … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
28. Openings
By: Lucy Caldwell
4.00
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
'One of the finest short-storywriters at work today. These stories are honest, finely nuanced and i… read more
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- literary fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
29. How To Gut A Fish
By: Sheila Armstrong
3.48
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
On a boat offshore, a fisherman guts a mackerel as he anxiously awaits a midnight rendezvous. Vi… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
30. 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
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
31. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
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