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…
Want to Read $ 10.49If you liked the short stories plot in Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine , here is a list of 8 books like this:
1. Multitudes
By: Lucy Caldwell
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
From Belfast to London and back again the eleven stories that comprise Caldwell's first collection … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Lucy Caldwell's Multitudes book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
2. Dark Lies the Island
By: Kevin Barry
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A new book from the winner of the 2012 Sunday TimesEFG Private Bank Short Story Prize. A kiss that … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Kevin Barry's Dark Lies the Island book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
3. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
By: Roddy Doyle
3.50
Format: 0 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen." Irish Paddy rampages throu… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
4. Young Skins
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Making a remarkable entrance onto the Irish and UK literary scene with rave reviews in The Sunday T… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Colin Barrett's Young Skins book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
5. 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
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Claire Keegan's Antarctica book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
6. Intimacies
By: Lucy Caldwell
3.90
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in t… read more
Want to Read $ 11.68Similar categories in Lucy Caldwell's Intimacies book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
7. 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
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Michael Magee's Close to Home book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
8. 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
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
9. 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
Want to Read $ 16.14Similar categories in Colin Barrett's Wild Houses book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
10. 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
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
"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
11. 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
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Megan Nolan's Ordinary Human Failings book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
12. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
13. Topographia Hibernica
By: Blindboy Boatclub
4.33
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Blindboy Boatclub's Topographia Hibernica book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- short stories
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
14. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
15. From a Low and Quiet Sea
By: Donal Ryan
3.78
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Donal Ryan's From a Low and Quiet Sea book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
"he waited for the water to carry him down, and fill him and slough his flesh and salt his guilty bones. But the water wouldn't take him."-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
"Trees live, like you and me, long lives, and they know things. They know the rule, the only one that's real and must be kept. What's the rule? You know. I've told you lots of times before. Be kind."-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
"I took to numbers, their definiteness, their unyielding natures: even when you chop a number down to a half or a tenth or a millionth or a billionth part of its former self it still exists, it’s stil…"-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
16. 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
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Louise Kennedy's The End of the World is a Cul de Sac book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
17. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sinéad Gleeson's Hagstone book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
18. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Jan Carson's The Raptures book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
19. 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
Want to Read $ 10.49Similar categories in Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- essays
- contemporary
- novels
- ireland
- irish literature
20. These Letters End in Tears
By: Musih Tedji Xaviere
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Set in a country where being gay is punishable by law, These Letters End in Tears is the heart-wren… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Musih Tedji Xaviere's These Letters End in Tears book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
21. 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
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Ian Cobain's Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island book and Wendy Erskine's Sweet Home
- ireland
- irish literature
