Here’s the Story: A Memoir
By: Mary McAleese
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
When a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed …
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1. Everybody Matters
By: Mary Robinson
4.23
Format: 510 pages,
One of the most inspiring women of our age, Mary Robinson has spent her life in pursuit of a fairer… read more
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- ireland
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2. We Were the Mulvaneys
By: Joyce Carol Oates
4.02
Format: 424 pages,
The Mulvaneys of High Point Farm in Mt. Ephraim, New York, are a large and fortunate clan, blessed … read more
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3. Young Skins
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Making a remarkable entrance onto the Irish and UK literary scene with rave reviews in The Sunday T… read more
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4. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
By: None
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
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5. Stay with Me
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expect… read more
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6. The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908 - 1923
By: Sean McMeekin
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing retelling of twentieth-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering prof… read more
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7. Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling!: Just a Small-Town Girl Living in a Notions World
By: Emer McLysaght , None
3.75
Format: 288 pages,
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8. 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
9. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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10. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
11. 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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12. 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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13. Forever Home
By: Graham Norton
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Where do secrets live? Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son … read more
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14. 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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15. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
By: Ian Dunt
4.45
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more
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16. Milkman
By: Anna Burns
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attem… read more
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"how much I’d been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man"-Anna Burns, Milkman
"It’s not about being happy,’ he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I’ve ever heard."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing."-Anna Burns, Milkman
"even though it was weird to talk on the telephone. Only eight times, seven, maybe six, ever had I done so."-Anna Burns, Milkman
17. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
By: Joseph O'Connor
4.05
Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more
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"Life schools you the way no catechism will."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
18. Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
By: Mariana Mazzucato
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The extraordinary efforts that took mankind to the moon 50 years ago were more than a scientific fe… read more
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"[A mission-oriented economy] means asking what kind of markets we want, rather than what problem in the market needs to be fixed."-Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
"The ideas in this book have been inspired by many. But it is probably significant that the previous chapter, looking at new theory, cites so many women scholars who have put life at the centre of the…"-Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
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. My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)
By: Marian Keyes
4.02
Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition
The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes. A… read more
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21. Sisterhood
By: Cathy Kelly
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
As the waves crash on to a wild Atlantic beach, Lou is at a crossroads. For the first time ever, ju… read more
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22. The Glorious Guinness Girls
By: Emily Hourican
3.33
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
From London to Ireland during the 1920s, this glorious, gripping, and richly textured story takes u… read more
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23. I Don't Want to Talk About Home
By: Suad Aldarra
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
'I carry my troubled homeland within me; I hide it like a crime.' Growing up in deeply conserva… read more
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24. Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin
By: Katja Oskamp
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Katja Oskamp ist Mitte vierzig, als ihr das Leben fad wird. Das Kind ist aus dem Haus, der Mann ist… read more
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"One of the women was a blonde from Eastern Europe who wore sweaters interwoven with gold. She had the loveliest uniform out of all of us, a tunic with a cinched waist and diagonally arranged buttons.…"-Katja Oskamp, Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin
25. Best of Friends
By: Kamila Shamsie
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Home Fire comes the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendsh… read more
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"Perhaps friendship was not only about what you said to each other, but also about what you didn't"-Kamila Shamsie, Best of Friends
26. On Days Like These: The Incredible Autobiography of a Football Legend
By: Martin O'Neill
4.12
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
Martin O’Neill has had one of the most incredible careers in football – winning European Cups, capt… read more
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27. The High House
By: Jessie Greengrass
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to mak… read more
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"I only knew that when they came back, they brought fear with them. Tracked in like mud across the carpet."-Jessie Greengrass, The High House
"—What they don’t seem to understand, she said, —is that anxiety is a perfectly reasonable response to what we are living through."-Jessie Greengrass, The High House
"I thought that it was not defeat at all. Rather, it was a kind of furious defiance that had led her to have a child, despite all she believed about the future. A kind of pact with the world, that, ha…"-Jessie Greengrass, The High House
"Somehow, while we had all been busy, while we had been doing those small things that added up to living, the future had slipped into the present—and despite the fact that we had known that it would c…"-Jessie Greengrass, The High House
28. The Other Guinness Girl: A Question of Honor
By: Emily Hourican
3.71
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
'A gloriously good read' Sunday Independent LIFESURROUNDED BY WEALTH, GLAMOUR AND EXCITEMENTLady Ho… read more
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29. Here’s the Story: A Memoir
By: Mary McAleese
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
When a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed … read more
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30. In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History
By: Carmel Mc Mahon
4.10
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying two suitcases and a ton o… read more
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"Women and children were not afforded the rights of citizenship, of subjecthood, of being. They lived under threat of being erased, hidden, buried. This is why my mother tells me - halting, hesitating…"-Carmel Mc Mahon, In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History
"We know that now. Vehicles of transportation include, according to the scholar of memory studies Marianne Hirsch, "narratives, actions and symptoms." The stories we tell and don't tell, the actions w…"-Carmel Mc Mahon, In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History
"The city had not yet woken on the frigid Sunday morning of February 20, 2011, when the body of a young Irish woman was found outside St. Brigid's Church in Manhattan's East Village. The news reports …"-Carmel Mc Mahon, In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History
"The industrial ghost towns, the late spring rain, the wide, low skies. The old sadness rising. An excess of black bile, they used to say, made the melancholic personality. Freud said that mourning an…"-Carmel Mc Mahon, In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History
