Irish Customs and Rituals: How Our Ancestors Celebrated Life and the Seasons
By: Marion McGarry
4.00
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Irish Cottage comes a new book, exploring old Irish customs and beliefs. Cha…
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1. How to Be a Woman
By: Caitlin Moran
4.25
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't ex… read more
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2. Endless Night
By: Agatha Christie
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Paperback
Strapped by a chauffeur's wages, Michael Rogers' want of a better life seems out of reach. Especial… read more
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3. The Artist's Way
By: Julia Cameron
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Artist's Wayis the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, mill… read more
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4. All We Shall Know
By: Donal Ryan
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. He's seventeen, I… read more
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5. Irish Trees: Myths, Legends & Folklore
By: Niall Mac Coitir
3.70
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
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6. 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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7. Ghost Light
By: Joseph O'Connor
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man… read more
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8. 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
9. The Coroner's Daughter
By: Andrew Hughes
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Dublin, 1816. A young nursemaid conceals a pregnancy and then murders her newborn in the home of th… read more
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10. The Builders
By: Maeve Binchy
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Nan Ryan lives by herself at Number 14 Chestnut Road. When it's heard that the builders are coming … read more
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11. The Essex Serpent
By: Sarah Perry
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, and enlivened by the debates on scienti… read more
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12. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
13. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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14. Water
By: John Boyne
4.33
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more
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15. 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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16. Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
By: Manchán Magan
4.27
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
The Irish language has thirty-two words for field. Among them – a field of corn-grassTuar – a fiel… read more
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17. 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
18. 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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"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
19. Mrs Death Misses Death
By: Salena Godden
3.51
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel. Mrs Death… read more
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"Spoiler Alert: We all die in the end"-Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death
"You live forever in your words, in hearts and memories, in your creations and connections. The seeds you sow, the child you raise, the song you sing, the story you write with your time here. You are …"-Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death
20. 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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21. To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
By: Diana Beresford-Kroeger
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the h… read more
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"The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe."-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
"The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe...cutting down trees was a suicidal act."-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
"Trees don't simply maintain the conditions necessary for human and most animal life on earth, trees created these conditions through the community of forests. Trees paved the way for the human family…"-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
"...I took a deep breath and a first step, and both eventually led me to the knowledge that I was capable of things bigger than I had imagined. I think every child should have an experience like the f…"-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
22. Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us
By: Manchán Magan
4.17
Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition
Our ancestors developed a uniquely nature-focused society, centred on esteemed poets, seers, monks,… read more
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23. Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
By: Séamas O'Reilly
4.13
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
A heart-warming and hilarious family memoir of growing up as one of eleven children raised by a sin… read more
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"Ann was as steady as rain and implacable as taxes. The kind of strong rooted Donegal woman you could imagine blithely tutting if her hair caught fire."-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
"It was this story, delivered in Robert's signature south Derry monotone, that had my dad in literal and figurative stitches in the amputation ward. Despite being a Catholic who loved and admired Pope…"-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
"It seems blasphemous that my mother's death even existed in the same reality as those moments that subsequently came to define my youth; taking the long way home from Nixon's Corner so I could listen…"-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir
24. Love at First Book
By: Jenn McKinlay
4.03
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
When a librarian moves to a quaint Irish village where her favorite novelist lives, the last thing … read more
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25. The Singularities
By: John Banville
3.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, li… read more
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26. Eyes Guts Throat Bones
By: Moïra Fowley-Doyle
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
What will the end of the world look like? Will it be an old man slowly turned to gold, flowers rain… read more
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27. Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
By: Thomas Hager
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a cataly… read more
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28. Irish Customs and Rituals: How Our Ancestors Celebrated Life and the Seasons
By: Marion McGarry
4.00
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Irish Cottage comes a new book, exploring old Irish customs and beliefs. Cha… read more
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29. Saltwater in the Blood: Surfing, Natural Cycles and the Sea's Power to Heal
By: Easkey Britton
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This is an incredibly inspiring exploration of the sea's role in the wellness of people and the pla… read more
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30. Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature
By: Manchán Magan
4.68
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
'In Irish there are so many great rain words and magic words and highly specific natural words (suc… read more
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31. The Turning of the Year: Lore and Legends of the Irish Seasons
By: Eithne Massey
3.89
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of the hugely successful book Legendary Ireland, The Turning of the Year explores t… read more
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