Who Really Owns Ireland: How we became tenants in our own land - and what we can do about it
By: Matt Cooper
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Leading journalist Matt Cooper examines the key players behind the scenes of Irish property ownersh…
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1. Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
By: Fintan O'Toole
4.03
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Between 1995 and 2007, the Republic of Ireland was the worldwide model of successful adaptation to … read more
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2. The Spinning Heart
By: Donal Ryan
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Hardcover
In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As v… read more
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3. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
4. 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
5. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)
By: David McCloskey
4.21
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more
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6. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)
By: Don Winslow
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more
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7. Lone Wolf (Orphan X, #9)
By: Gregg Hurwitz
4.37
Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition
Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep und… read more
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8. 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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9. 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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10. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
11. The Year of the Locust
By: Terry Hayes
3.57
Format: 652 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Utterly gripping, elegantly written... most definitely worth the wait’ Observer'Ticks all the boxe… read more
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12. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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13. 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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14. 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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"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
15. 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)
16. The Trading Game: A Confession
By: Gary Stevenson
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more
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17. 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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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
18. Kala
By: Colin Walsh
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more
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"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."-Colin Walsh, Kala
19. Topographia Hibernica
By: Blindboy Boatclub
4.33
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The … read more
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20. 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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21. 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
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22. Kill for Me, Kill for You
By: Steve Cavanagh
4.20
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Silent Patient and Gone Girl, a razor-sharp and Hitchcock-inspired psychological th… read more
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23. From a Low and Quiet Sea
By: Donal Ryan
3.78
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John… read more
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"he waited for the water to carry him down, and fill him and slough his flesh and salt his guilty bones. But the water wouldn't take him."-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
"Trees live, like you and me, long lives, and they know things. They know the rule, the only one that's real and must be kept. What's the rule? You know. I've told you lots of times before. Be kind."-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
"I took to numbers, their definiteness, their unyielding natures: even when you chop a number down to a half or a tenth or a millionth or a billionth part of its former self it still exists, it’s stil…"-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea
24. The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin
By: Aoife Moore
3.82
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking… read more
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25. 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
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26. A Ladder to the Sky
By: John Boyne
4.21
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent—b… read more
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"I had told the truth, or a version of it, anyway."-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky
"I think Maurice is whatever he needs to be, whenever he needs to be it. He's an operator, that's for sure."-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky
"Would there be no end to publishing, he wondered? Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years, and allowed readers to catch up."-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky
"I've known a lot of whores in my life," added Gore, [...]. "Both men and women. And in general, I've always found them to be good company, with a highly evolved sense of honor. A whore will never che…"-John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky
27. Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place
By: Martin Doyle
4.31
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles … read more
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28. 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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29. Who Really Owns Ireland: How we became tenants in our own land - and what we can do about it
By: Matt Cooper
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Leading journalist Matt Cooper examines the key players behind the scenes of Irish property ownersh… read more
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30. A Hundred to One: 100 convictions. 1 Million Euro. The devastating true story of a compulsive gambler
By: Pat Sheedy
3.92
Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition
Was it worth it? Probably not.At the age of twelve, Pat Sheedy placed his first 10p bet and concoct… read more
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31. 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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