Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Stories
By: Jan Carson
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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1. Missing Persons: or, My Grandmother's Secrets
By: Clair Wills
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the gaping holes in the fabric o… read more
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- ireland
2. 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
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
3. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
"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
4. 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
5. 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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- literary fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
6. 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
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
7. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
8. 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
- contemporary
"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
9. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
10. We Burn Daylight
By: Bret Anthony Johnston
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of star-crossed lovers set in a doomsday cult on the Texas prairie that asks: what wo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
11. 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
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
12. This Is How You Remember It
By: Catherine Prasifka
4.11
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you sp… read more
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- literary fiction
- ireland
- fiction
- contemporary
13. 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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- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
14. 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
- irish literature
- fiction
15. The Racket: A darkly funny memoir about the strange and fascinating world of professional tennis
By: Conor Niland
4.38
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ... It’s Kitchen Confidential for tennis.' Ed Caesar… read more
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16. Openings
By: Lucy Caldwell
4.00
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
'One of the finest short-storywriters at work today. These stories are honest, finely nuanced and i… read more
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- literary fiction
- short story collection
- short stories
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
17. Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Stories
By: Jan Carson
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Humorous and horrifying, tender and absurd, the stories in Quickly, While They Still Have Horses of… read more
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- short story collection
- literature
- collections
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
18. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
19. Mouthing
By: Orla Mackey
3.93
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
Sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued, a multigenerational portrait of small-town life in Ireland from a ref… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
20. 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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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- ireland
- irish literature
21. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
