The Country Funeral
By: John McGahern
3.84
Format: 79 pages, Paperback
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1. Killing and Dying: Stories
By: Adrian Tomine
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." --Wired Killing and Dying is a stunning sho… read more
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- short stories
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
3. Homeland and Other Stories
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.87
Format: None pages,
Homeland and Other Storiesoffers comic, often heart-warming but always true to life tales told as o… read more
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4. Giacomo Joyce
By: James Joyce
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Joyce's fictionalized autobiographical love story is presented together with textual and documentar… read more
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5. Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine
By: Thom Jones
3.16
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Dilapidated fight arenas, Christmas in a psychiatric ward, chaotic emergency rooms - this is the wo… read more
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6. Travels With My Aunt
By: Graham Greene
4.07
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
"I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..." Described by Graham Greene as "th… read more
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7. My Son the Fanatic
By: Hanif Kureishi
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Set in a northern industrial town, this screenplay presents the dismay experienced by a Pakistani f… read more
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8. The Inner Room
By: Robert Aickman
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Published in association with the halifax Ghost story Festival. Illustrated by stephen J. Clark Pap… read more
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9. 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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- short stories
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
10. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"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
11. Paradise
By: Edna O'Brien
3.44
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
12. Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
By: Milan Kundera
3.70
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
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- fiction
13. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- fiction
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
14. The Forester's Daughter
By: Claire Keegan
4.07
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
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- ireland
- irish literature
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15. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
By: Sylvia Plath
3.98
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
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"«Pero ¿qué es el noveno reino?», le pregunta a una mujer de ojos azules y piel arrugada. «Es el reino de la negación, de la voluntad congelada -responde-. No hay retorno posible.»"-Sylvia Plath, Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
16. Winter People
By: Gráinne Murphy
4.10
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Sis Cotter has lived her whole life in a small house by her beloved beach. Here, she grew up, reare… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
17. Come Rain or Come Shine
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.65
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
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18. Dante and the Lobster
By: Samuel Beckett
3.32
Format: None pages, None
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
19. Terrific Mother
By: Lorrie Moore
3.54
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
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20. Shanti
By: Vikram Chandra
3.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
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21. The Country Funeral
By: John McGahern
3.84
Format: 79 pages, Paperback
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22. Fairy Tales
By: Marianne Moore
3.25
Format: 44 pages, Paperback
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23. The Cheater's Guide to Love
By: Junot Díaz
3.75
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
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24. The Shielding of Mrs Forbes
By: Alan Bennett
3.96
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
'Thinking Betty was in the bath Graham was watching a late-night programme on Channel 4 called Foot… read more
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25. The Victim
By: P.D. James
3.76
Format: 35 pages, Paperback
P. D. James takes us inside the mind of a murderer. On the whole, it was easier than I had expecte… read more
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26. Ghostly Stories
By: Celia Fremlin
3.65
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
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27. An Elegy for Easterly
By: Petina Gappah
3.51
Format: 41 pages, Paperback
The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England's visit. 'The townships are too full … read more
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28. Cosmopolitan
By: Akhil Sharma
3.32
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
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29. Three Types of Solitude
By: Brian W. Aldiss
3.46
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
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"Sadness is just happiness in reverse. We humans have to put up with it. Just being human is an awful burden to bear."-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude
"Time doesn't pass. That's just a human myth. Time's all round us, like some kind of jelly. It's just human life that passes."-Brian W. Aldiss, Three Types of Solitude
30. Daughters of Passion
By: Julia O'Faolain
3.40
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
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31. A River in Egypt
By: David Means
3.07
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
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