The Butchers' Blessing
By: Ruth Gilligan
3.86
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Every year, Úna prepares for her father to leave her. He will wave goodbye early one morning, then …
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1. A Line Made By Walking
By: Sara Baume
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The author of the award-winning Spill Simmer Falter Wither returns with a stunning new novel about … read more
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- literary fiction
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"Art, and sadness, which last forever."-Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking
"I open my eyes to find the morning adjourned."-Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking
"People don't like it when you say real things."-Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking
"But now I remember, of course, I'm never going to be old."-Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking
2. Amongst Women
By: John McGahern
3.00
Format: 81 pages,
Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla le… read more
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3. East of the West: A Country in Stories
By: Miroslav Penkov
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A grandson tries to buy the corpse of Lenin on eBay for his Communist grandfather. A failed wunderk… read more
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4. Dark Roots: Stories
By: Cate Kennedy
3.79
Format: 160 pages,
Devastating, evocative, and richly comic, Dark Roots deftly unveils the traumas that incite us to d… read more
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5. 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
6. 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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7. A Sharp Solitude (Glacier Mystery #4)
By: Christine Carbo
3.97
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
A gripping new mystery from the “fresh new voice in the thriller genre” (Steve Berry, New York Time… read more
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8. Salt and Skin
By: Eliza Henry-Jones
3.79
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
‘Until recently, there had been four of them. Unspeaking, the three remaining Managans lugged their… read more
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9. The End of the World is a Cul de Sac
By: Louise Kennedy
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In The End of the World is a Cul de Sac the political is intertwined with the personal, as Louise K… read more
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10. Falling Animals
By: Sheila Armstrong
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the las… read more
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11. Three Little Birds
By: Sam Blake
3.78
Format: 480 pages, ebook
Two decades of secrets. One shocking discovery... When a skull is found in Lough Coyne, facial r… read more
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12. Seven Steeples
By: Sara Baume
3.53
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
Bell en Sigh verhuizen vanuit de drukte van de stad naar een huis aan de Atlantische Oceaan in het … read more
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"October mornings peeled the night cloud back to its subcutaneous lilac tissue. The leaves earned their name by leaving the trees. Browned and blistered foliage cascaded from the sycamore, swilling in…"-Sara Baume, Seven Steeples
13. Ossenkop
By: Manik Sarkar
4.23
Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition
Wanneer Rensing in 1975 van de Slagersvakschool komt, weet hij alles over het slagersvak en het run… read more
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14. 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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15. The Darkest Season
By: R.J. Ellory
4.12
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Jasperville, Quebec. A small town a thousand miles from anywhere. For Jack Devereaux, it's a thous… read more
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16. The Wild Laughter
By: Caoilinn Hughes
3.83
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
It's 2008, and the Celtic Tiger has left devastation in its wake. Brothers Hart and Cormac Black ar… read more
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17. Een ander leven
By: Bart Moeyaert
4.34
Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition
In januari 1996 verrast Bart Moeyaert zijn zeventigjarige moeder met een verjaardagscadeau. Ze gaan… read more
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18. Soms zou ik de wind willen zijn
By: Franco Faggiani
3.40
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Francesca Capodiferro werkt voor de brandweer. Als enige vrouw stuurt zij een team van alleen maar … read more
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19. The Butchers' Blessing
By: Ruth Gilligan
3.86
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Every year, Úna prepares for her father to leave her. He will wave goodbye early one morning, then … read more
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20. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
21. Future Popes of Ireland
By: Darragh Martin
3.54
Format: 448 pages, ebook
In 1979 Bridget Doyle has one goal left in life: for her family to produce the very first Irish pop… read more
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