We Play Here
By: Dawn Watson
4.28
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A Guardian Poetry Book of the Year 2023; shortlisted for the John Pollard International Poetry Priz…
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1. Scoop
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.80
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast", has always prided himself on hi… read more
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"Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'--William Boot"-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
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3. Corelli's Mandolin
By: Louis de Bernières
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
Captain Corelli's Mandolin is set in the early days of the second world war, before Benito Mussolin… read more
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4. 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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5. Weasels in the Attic
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.43
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious work that explore… read more
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"We meet at school, or work, or maybe a store. Wherever it is, there's just a random group of individuals, right? Within that group, you find your mate. If you were in a different group, you' d end up…"-Hiroko Oyamada, Weasels in the Attic
6. 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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"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
7. The Orange and Other Poems
By: Wendy Cope
4.19
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more
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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
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9. Bloodstream
By: Emilee Carter
3.05
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
Life in the fast lane is not quite what Faith Jensen expected. As the new social media manager f… read more
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10. Night Boat to Tangier
By: Kevin Barry
3.62
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging … read more
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"Would you say there's any end in sight, Charlie?"-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"The Past is uncertain, mobile. It shifts and rearranges back there yet."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"When we move by water, our hearts are moved. We are complicated fucking machines."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
"A troubled silence descends—the old times are shifting again; they are rearranging like fault lines. The past will not relent."-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier
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
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12. Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects
By: Noah Angell
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
What if the British Museum isn't a house of learning, but a vast sinkhole of still-bubbling histori… read more
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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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14. The Home Child
By: Liz Berry
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a true story, a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home. From award-winnin… read more
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15. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
By: T. Fleischmann
4.01
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship… read more
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"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
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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17. In Concrete
By: Anne Garréta
3.31
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
Garreta’s first new novel in a decade follows two young sisters who are dragged into one adventure … read more
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18. We Play Here
By: Dawn Watson
4.28
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A Guardian Poetry Book of the Year 2023; shortlisted for the John Pollard International Poetry Priz… read more
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19. I cannot be good until you say it
By: Sanah Ahsan
4.29
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
The much-anticipated debut collection by the winner of the Outspoken Performance Poetry a tender m… read more
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20. Gub
By: Scott McKendry
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
'Gub is unlike anything I have ever read. In a playful demotic that is exhilarating, hilarious and … read more
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21. All the Good Things You Deserve
By: Elaine Feeney
4.06
Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition
How do we love, trust and create in the aftermath of trauma? How do we name and speak that love?In … read more
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