The Hurlers: The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling
By: Paul Rouse
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times , lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was…
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1. Soccernomics
By: Stefan Szymanski , Simon Kuper
4.67
Format: 88 pages,
Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn't America dominate the sport internationally… read more
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- history
- sports
- nonfiction
2. Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
By: Anna Reid
3.92
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Inspired and informed by the author's own experiences in Ukraine, this is a history of a politicall… read more
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3. Rough Ride: Behind the Wheel With a Pro Cyclist
By: Paul Kimmage
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Paul Kimmage's boyhood dreams were of cycling glory--wearing the yellow jersey, cycling the Tour de… read more
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4. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.79
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more
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"Never be daunted"-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"I am always in love."-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
5. Fever Pitch
By: Nick Hornby
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no pr… read more
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6. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
7. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
By: Bernie Sanders
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
8. 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
9. 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
10. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
11. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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- nonfiction
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
12. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
By: Annie Proulx
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
13. 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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14. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
15. 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
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"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
16. 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
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"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
17. 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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- history
- nonfiction
18. Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party
By: Michael Cragg
4.28
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Using the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this fascinating new narrative will ex… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Expected Goals: The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever
By: Rory Smith
3.84
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs … read more
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- sports
- nonfiction
20. A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000
By: John Gibney
3.73
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the daw… read more
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- nonfiction
21. 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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- nonfiction
22. Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
By: Simon Winchester
3.79
Format: 464 pages, ebook
The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—o… read more
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- nonfiction
23. An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey Into the Magic of Rewilding
By: Eoghan Daltun
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beautiful nature writing combined with a passionate appeal for a radically changed relationship to … read more
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- nonfiction
"A common misconception is that rewilding seeks to return land to an idealised previous ecological state. In reality it would never be possible to go back in time to some arbitrarily chosen baseline -…"-Eoghan Daltun, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey Into the Magic of Rewilding
24. Born to be a Footballer: My Autobiography
By: Liam Brady
4.19
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
"Being a footballer was my destiny." After being expelled from school for playing football for his … read more
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- nonfiction
25. 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
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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- nonfiction
27. Ghost Mountain
By: Ronan Hession
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ghost Mountain is a simple fable-like novel about a mountain that appears suddenly and the way in w… read more
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28. The Grass Ceiling
By: Eimear Ryan
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
What is it like to be female in a male-dominated sporting world? If you play with the boys, more pe… read more
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29. The Hurlers: The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling
By: Paul Rouse
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times , lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was… read more
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- history
- sports
- nonfiction
30. SÍ SEÑOR: My Liverpool Years - THE LONG-AWAITED MEMOIR FROM A LIVERPOOL LEGEND
By: Roberto Firmino
3.94
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
A revelatory memoir from Liverpool legend and global football star Bobby Firmino.Master of the no-l… read more
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- nonfiction
31. This is the Life
By: Ciarán Murphy
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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