Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
By: Colm Tóibín
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Colm Tóibín, the formidable award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn , an illuminating,…
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1. Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
By: Shaun Usher
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Letters of Noteis a collection of one hundred and twenty five of the world's most entertaining, ins… read more
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2. Five-Carat Soul
By: James McBride
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The … read more
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3. Pitch Dark
By: Renata Adler
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
"What's new. What else. What next. What's happened here." Pitch Dark, Renata Adler's follow up to h… read more
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4. The Butcher Boy
By: Patrick McCabe
3.43
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
"I was thinking how right ma was -- Mrs. Nugent all smiles when she met us and how are you getting … read more
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5. Lady Sings the Blues
By: Billie Holiday , William Dufty
3.32
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This work presents the Billie Holiday story - her rise to the top from the slums and the streets, t… read more
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6. Tulip Fever
By: Deborah Moggach
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
A tale of art, beauty, lust, greed, deception and retribution -- set in a refined society ablaze wi… read more
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7. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories
By: Denis Johnson
3.40
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
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11. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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12. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
13. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
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-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se 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. Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
By: Lena Andrews
4.00
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
A history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential … read more
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16. España: A Brief History of Spain
By: Giles Tremlett
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric … read more
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17. 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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18. 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
19. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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20. 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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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
21. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
By: Bianca Bosker
4.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more
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"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
22. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.34
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more
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"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
23. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
By: Max Hastings
4.30
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more
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"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
24. 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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25. Fifteen Wild Decembers
By: Karen Powell
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A creative re-imagining of the short life of Emily Brontë, one of England’s greatest writers Pra… read more
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26. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
By: Mark O'Connell
3.74
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more
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27. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
28. Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
By: John Higgs
4.15
Format: 518 pages, Kindle Edition
A deep-dive into the unique connections between the two titans of the British cultural psyche—the B… read more
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"His voice was proof that no matter how lost you may be you are never alone because there are people like John Lennon who could reach you."-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
"In the midst of communal screaming there is only the present moment. The past and the future dissolve the way, nothing more than illusions. When the past disappears it takes with it the possibility o…"-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
"When Bond was born he personified an aspect of male identity that was prevalent after the war that of the protector. Man saw their role as being the one to protect their families from external threat…"-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
"An important factor here is that Bond does not see himself as a victim. This feels like it should be an increasingly important aspect of the character given the extent which society consistently urge…"-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
29. 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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30. Bennelong and Phillip
By: Kate Fullagar
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australia… read more
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31. Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
By: Colm Tóibín
3.66
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Colm Tóibín, the formidable award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn , an illuminating,… read more
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