5 Top nonfiction books like Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women by Leanne McCormick

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Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

By: Leanne McCormick

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The untold stories of generations of Irish women who saw their American dream become a nightmare - …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women by Leanne McCormick , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. The Coroner's Daughter

By: Andrew Hughes

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Dublin, 1816. A young nursemaid conceals a pregnancy and then murders her newborn in the home of th… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Hughes's The Coroner's Daughter book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

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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

Similar categories in John Boyne's Earth book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • ireland
  • irish literature
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3. 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

Similar categories in Michael Magee's Close to Home book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • historical
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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4. 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

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • historical
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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5. This Plague of Souls

By: Mike McCormack

3.09

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

The follow-up to Booker-listed literary sensation Solar Bones is a terse metaphysical thriller, nam… read more

Similar categories in Mike McCormack's This Plague of Souls book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • ireland
  • irish literature
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6. 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

Similar categories in Joseph O'Connor's My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • historical
  • ireland
"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)

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7. 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

Similar categories in Rory Carroll's There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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8. 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

Similar categories in Cathy Sweeney's Breakdown book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • ireland
  • irish literature
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9. 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

Similar categories in Michelle McDonagh's Somebody Knows book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • irish literature
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10. 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

Similar categories in Jo Spain's The Trial book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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11. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

Similar categories in Katriona O'Sullivan's Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
  • ireland
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12. 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

Similar categories in Una Mannion's Tell Me What I Am book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • crime
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13. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

By: Mark O'Connell

3.74

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more

Similar categories in Mark O'Connell's A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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14. Reality Check

By: Vicki Notaro

3.64

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

Portia Daniels' life is sorted. She has a perfect man (Jason, a hot TV producer from Ireland), a pe… read more

Similar categories in Vicki Notaro's Reality Check book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

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15. 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

Similar categories in Sinéad Gleeson's Hagstone book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • ireland
  • irish literature
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16. A Lethal Legacy

By: Fin Dwyer

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

The Instant Top 5 Irish Times BestsellerFrom the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fasci… read more

Similar categories in Fin Dwyer's A Lethal Legacy book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • ireland
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17. 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

Similar categories in Nuala O'Connor's Seaborne book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • historical
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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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

Similar categories in Niamh Mulvey's The Amendments book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • ireland
  • irish literature
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19. Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

By: Leanne McCormick

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The untold stories of generations of Irish women who saw their American dream become a nightmare - … read more

Similar categories in Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • american
  • history
  • travel
  • historical
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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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

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's Heart, Be at Peace book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • ireland
  • irish literature
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21. Where I End

By: Sophie White

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

My mother. At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her. Through our thin shar… read more

Similar categories in Sophie White's Where I End book and Leanne McCormick's Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

  • ireland
  • irish literature

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Michael Magee

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Joseph O'Connor

4.05

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Rory Carroll

4.38

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Paul Lynch

4.10

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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4.29

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David Nicholls

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