29 Best fiction books like Greener by Gráinne Murphy

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Greener

By: Gráinne Murphy

3.75

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

'A thoughtful meditation on what happens to old friendships when you make yourself a new life. Insi…

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1. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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2. 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
  • ireland
  • fiction
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3. 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
  • ireland
  • fiction
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4. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • fiction
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5. 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
  • ireland
  • fiction
"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

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6. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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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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  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • fiction
"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. 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
  • ireland
  • fiction
"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

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9. Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?

By: Nicci French

3.96

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families s… read more

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  • fiction
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10. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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11. 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
  • ireland
  • fiction
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12. 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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  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • fiction
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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
"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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15. The Trial

By: Jo Spain

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical… read more

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  • ireland
  • fiction
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16. 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
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17. Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood

By: Kit de Waal

4.13

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and … read more

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18. 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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  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • fiction
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19. 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
  • ireland
  • fiction
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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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  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • fiction
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21. A Dry Spell

By: Clare Chambers

3.91

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

From the highly-acclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES - WINNER of the 2022 British Book Awards Page-T… read more

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  • fiction
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22. 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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  • ireland
  • fiction
Cover of Dinner Party: A Tragedy by Sarah Gilmartin

23. Dinner Party: A Tragedy

By: Sarah Gilmartin

3.40

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

To mark the anniversary of a death in the family, Kate meticulously plans a dinner party - from the… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Gilmartin's Dinner Party: A Tragedy book and Gráinne Murphy's Greener

  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • fiction
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24. Greener

By: Gráinne Murphy

3.75

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

'A thoughtful meditation on what happens to old friendships when you make yourself a new life. Insi… read more

Similar categories in Gráinne Murphy's Greener book and Gráinne Murphy's Greener

  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • fiction
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25. 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
  • ireland
  • fiction
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26. True Love

By: Paddy Crewe

4.12

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

KEELY feels alone in the world — grief consumes her, she wants to escape it, to take both her fathe… read more

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  • fiction
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27. 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
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28. Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love

By: Marianne Cronin

4.62

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The author of the beloved international hit The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot returns with … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan

29. 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

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's Heart, Be at Peace book and Gráinne Murphy's Greener

  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • fiction
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30. The Echoes

By: Evie Wyld

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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31. Frankie

By: Graham Norton

4.53

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Frankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories… read more

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  • fiction

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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John Boyne

4.33

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4.34

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Michael Magee

4.06

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Charlotte Wood

3.68

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4.18

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