19 best-selling ireland books like Seaborne by Nuala O'Connor

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Seaborne

By: Nuala O'Connor

3.81

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

1703, Kinsale, County Cork. Anne Coleman is the illegitimate child of a local lawyer and his maid; …

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1. The Spinning Heart

By: Donal Ryan

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As v… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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2. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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6. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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

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7. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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

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8. 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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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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9. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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12. Hey, Zoey

By: Sarah Crossan

3.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Dolores O'Shea’s marriage collapses when she discovers her husband’s AI sex doll in the garage. Whe… read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"But I wished I wasn’t strong. Because when you are, no one thinks to take care of you."

-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey

"We were too alike. We loved one another in the wrong way, but that doesn't mean it wasn't love."

-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey

"How could we possibly tell another person everything about ourselves? It would take a lifetime. It would be incredibly boring."

-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey

"As a young teacher I would raise my voice to get a group’s attention. Now I know better. To make yourself heard, you get very quiet. It instils fear."

-Sarah Crossan, Hey, Zoey

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13. Someone in the Attic

By: Andrea Mara

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From a #1 internationally bestselling author comes an atmospheric, chilling novel about a family wh… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"People trust people with dogs. They do. There’s an inherent belief that dog people are good people."

-Andrea Mara, Someone in the Attic

"They’re keen to help and intrigued too, she can see, in that way people are when there’s drama but no personal risk."

-Andrea Mara, Someone in the Attic

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14. Somebody Knows

By: Michelle McDonagh

4.16

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

: A gripping, addictive page-turner about dangerous secrets and the lengths people will go to keep … read more

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  • irish literature
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15. In Her Place

By: Edel Coffey

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 bestselling author of Breaking Point and winner of Crime Novel of the Year at the An … read more

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16. Tell Me What I Am

By: Una Mannion

3.92

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

Two women wrenched apart by a family member’s disappearance must find a way back to each other in t… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. The Lighthouse Secret

By: Carmel Harrington

4.31

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

On the jagged Cork coast the Ballycotton lighthouse stands tall, protecting ships from its rocks. F… read more

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20. Night Swimmers

By: Roisin Maguire

4.06

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

'Beautifully written, full of wisdom and wonderful secondary characters. I loved it' Daily Mail'A g… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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21. 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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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • audiobook
"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

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22. The Silence Factory

By: Bridget Collins

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. There Are Rivers in the Sky

By: Elif Shafak

4.58

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."

-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

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24. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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25. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. Spirit Level

By: Richy Craven

3.94

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Danny Hook is a directionless twenty-something year old fresh out of therapy. Dealing with his disa… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. Holding Her Breath

By: Eimear Ryan

3.62

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“A joy to read. ... Emotional, clever, and humorous,  Holding Her Breath  will engross readers with… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. Seaborne

By: Nuala O'Connor

3.81

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

1703, Kinsale, County Cork. Anne Coleman is the illegitimate child of a local lawyer and his maid; … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Amendments by Niamh Mulvey

29. 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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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
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31. Old Romantics

By: Maggie Armstrong

3.55

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A few years ago my husband recommended me for a job in his company, and I thought it would be fun,… read more

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  • irish literature
  • fiction

28 best-selling fiction books like Seaborne by Nuala O'Connor

Transform Your Habits

The Spinning Heart

Donal Ryan

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Water

John Boyne

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Earth

John Boyne

4.34

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20 Best fiction books like The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan

Transform Your Habits

That They May Face The Rising Sun

John McGahern

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Spinning Heart

Donal Ryan

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Antarctica

Claire Keegan

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

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