Blank Pages: And Other Stories
By: Bernard MacLaverty
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A collection of twelve powerful and moving new stories from one of Ireland’s most celebrated writer…
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1. The Collected Stories
By: John McGahern
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
These 34 funny, tragic, bracing, and acerbic stories represent the complete short fiction of one of… read more
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- short story collection
- short stories
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- ireland
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2. The Blackwater Lightship
By: Colm Tóibín
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come toge… read more
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3. The China Factory
By: Mary Costello
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
An elderly schoolteacher recalls the single act of youthful passion that changed her life forever; … read more
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- short stories
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4. The Book of Evidence
By: John Banville
3.64
Format: 192 pages,
Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, a thirty-eight-year-old m… read more
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7. 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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"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
8. Amongst Women
By: John McGahern
3.00
Format: 81 pages,
Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla le… read more
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9. Thérèse Desqueyroux
By: François Mauriac
1.00
Format: None pages,
Pour eviter le scandale et proteger les interets de leur fille, Bernard Desqueyroux, que sa femme T… read more
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10. The Fox Was Ever the Hunter
By: Herta Müller , Philip Boehm
3.82
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
An early masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed as the laureate of life under totali… read more
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11. Saint Maybe
By: Anne Tyler
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 1965, the happy Bedloe family is living an ideal, apple-pie existence in Baltimore. Then, in the… read more
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12. 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
13. 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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- fiction
14. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
15. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind
By: Clancy Martin
3.71
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compu… read more
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16. 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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- fiction
- historical fiction
- ireland
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"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
17. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
18. 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 fiction
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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
19. 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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- 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
20. After the Funeral and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- short story collection
21. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac
By: Louise Kennedy
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In The End of the World is a Cul de Sac the political is intertwined with the personal, as Louise K… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
22. Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
By: Nathalia Holt
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early da… read more
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"A woman who will tell you her age will tell you anything"-Nathalia Holt, Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
23. The Borrowed Hills
By: Scott Preston
3.87
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
A cinematic neo-Western set in the fells of northern England. "Half Tarantino and half pitch-bla… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"We’d burned through everything, even what we’d no right to, rubbed out the stars and hid the moon, and if the night sky wasn’t already black, we’d have had a good go at making it."-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
"She’d look at me like I’m an idiot since I am one, but she still looked at me. That’s how Helen was, and that’s how I’ve always been. That’s why I like dogs more than people. Why I am a bloody dog. T…"-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
"Two weeks of thinking I’d sort it out tomorrow, what came next. Eating crisps in bed or in the bath and getting a headache from all the salt. Daytime telly on as if it can keep you warm—the kind that…"-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
"It rained on the day of my dad’s funeral. Folk here are born with waterproof skin and a double set of eyelids like a trout. But I’ve seen nowt like it before. Wherever the ground dipped it turned to …"-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
24. The Caregiver
By: Samuel Park
3.76
Format: 288 pages, ebook
From the critically acclaimed author of This Burns My Heart comes gorgeous, emotionally wise tale a… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"I began to wonder if love was just a refined form of compassion, the heart's choice, for whatever reason, to devote itself to another being."-Samuel Park, The Caregiver
25. Homesickness
By: Colin Barrett
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author of critical smash Young Skins, … read more
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- short story collection
- short stories
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- ireland
- irish literature
26. Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce
By: Nuala O'Connor
4.05
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed Irish novelist Nuala O’Connor’s bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce’s wife, muse,… read more
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27. Blank Pages: And Other Stories
By: Bernard MacLaverty
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A collection of twelve powerful and moving new stories from one of Ireland’s most celebrated writer… read more
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28. The Belladonna Maze
By: Sinéad Crowley
3.95
Format: None pages, ebook
From bestselling crime novelist and renowned Irish TV journalist Sinéad Crowley, gripping dual time… read more
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29. American Estrangement: Stories
By: Said Sayrafiezadeh
3.73
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Said Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as "a masterful storyteller working from de… read more
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- short stories
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30. Like the Appearance of Horses
By: Andrew Krivak
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A novel of one family, a century of war, and the promise of homecoming from Dayton Literary Peace P… read more
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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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