The Dazzling Truth
By: Helen Cullen
3.93
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
One Irish family. Three decades. One dazzling story.In the courtyards of Trinity College, Dublin, i…
Want to Read $ 7.99"Consider this - when you ask a child to draw you a picture, or tell you a story, they never refuse because they 'aren't creative.' We just learn as we get older whether we're allowed to call ourselves the anymore because we're trained only to invest time in what we are 'good at.' And its a tragedy - when we can't create purely for the joy it brings us. Don't be afraid to play, Fionn. It's good for the soul."-Helen Cullen, The Dazzling Truth
"Consider this - when you ask a child to draw you a picture, or tell you a story, they never refuse because they 'aren't creative.' We just learn as we get older whether we're allowed to call ourselves the anymore because we're trained only to invest time in what we are 'good at.' And its a tragedy - when we can't create purely for the joy it brings us. Don't be afraid to play, Fionn. It's good for the soul."-Helen Cullen, The Dazzling Truth
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1. Learning To Swim
By: Clare Chambers
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Abigail Jex never expected to see any of the Radley household again. In dramatic contrast to her ow… read more
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2. You Be Mother
By: Meg Mason
4.31
Format: 66 pages, ebook
What do you do, when you find the perfect family, and it's not yours? A charming, funny and irresis… read more
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3. Juno Loves Legs
By: Karl Geary
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Juno loves Legs. She's loved him since their first encounter at school in Dublin, the time she foug… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
4. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
5. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
6. All My Mothers
By: Joanna Glen
4.44
Format: 400 pages, ebook
From the author of the Costa shortlisted debut, The Other Half of Augusta Hope, comes the story of … read more
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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"What the hell is a man if he can’t cry for his son?"-Joanna Glen, All My Mothers
7. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
8. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
9. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
10. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- 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
11. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
12. 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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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
"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
13. The Island of Longing
By: Anne Griffin
4.15
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
One unremarkable afternoon, Rosie watched, from her bedroom window, her daughter Saoirse come up th… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
14. Kala
By: Colin Walsh
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."-Colin Walsh, Kala
15. Breakdown
By: Cathy Sweeney
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
16. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
17. This Family
By: Kate Sawyer
3.83
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
18. 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
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
19. The Stranding
By: Kate Sawyer
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ruth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid an… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Strange Flowers
By: Donal Ryan
3.81
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parent… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
21. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
22. Ruth & Pen
By: Emilie Pine
3.69
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Dublin, 7th October 2019. One day, one city, two women - Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, … read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
23. Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles
By: Anne Tyler
3.95
Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition
The first thing I tell people is, I’m just an ordinary woman. I’m just like you. Susanna has an inc… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"The first thing I tell people is, I’m just an ordinary woman. I’m just like you, I say, I can see they don't believe me."-Anne Tyler, Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles
24. Before My Actual Heart Breaks
By: Tish Delaney
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
I’m not yours and you’re not mine. That’s what I say to his dreaming face as I watch the shadows of… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- historical
- mental health
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
25. Road Out of Winter
By: Alison Stine
3.68
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
In an endless winter, she carries seeds of hope Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and pove… read more
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- fiction
"The world's gone crazy,' Grayson said. 'No,' Janey said, looking out the window. 'It was always this way."-Alison Stine, Road Out of Winter
26. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
27. Duffy and Son
By: Damien Owens
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A heart-warming and hilarious novel about life, love, and the weight of all we leave unsaid, Duffy … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
28. Nothing but Blue Sky
By: Kathleen MacMahon
3.91
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage? David thought so. But when his wife Mary Rose dies … read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
"The pain was still there, the pain was always there, but I had a soothing feeling on top of it, like when you apply a cooling gel to sunburn."-Kathleen MacMahon, Nothing but Blue Sky
"Fifty-one years old and still only slowly coming to some understanding of my life, I sat on a beach on the Costa Brava, digesting the terrifying knowledge that we hold in our hands each other's fragi…"-Kathleen MacMahon, Nothing but Blue Sky
"It was exhausting to me, and touching at the same time, how my friends took such care to gather up every morsel of her life. They collated these shards of her history with all the white-glove care of…"-Kathleen MacMahon, Nothing but Blue Sky
"I know what you're saying, and of course there will be a moment of sadness, always, that Mary Rose isn't there. But the happy occasions will still be happy occasions, because that's how life works. H…"-Kathleen MacMahon, Nothing but Blue Sky
29. The Dazzling Truth
By: Helen Cullen
3.93
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
One Irish family. Three decades. One dazzling story.In the courtyards of Trinity College, Dublin, i… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- historical
- mental health
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
"Consider this - when you ask a child to draw you a picture, or tell you a story, they never refuse because they 'aren't creative.' We just learn as we get older whether we're allowed to call ourselve…"-Helen Cullen, The Dazzling Truth
30. The Amendments
By: Niamh Mulvey
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel abou… read more
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- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
31. Girls
By: Kirsty Capes
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
