Without My Cloak (Virago Modern Classics)
By: Kate O'Brien
3.83
Format: 490 pages, Paperback
When Anthony Considine creeps into Mellick town with a stolen horse in 1789, it sets the destiny of…
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3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
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3.92
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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6. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
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7. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
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"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
8. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
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3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
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4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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4.11
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more
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12. Strange Flowers
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3.81
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
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13. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)
By: Kate Atkinson
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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14. Without My Cloak (Virago Modern Classics)
By: Kate O'Brien
3.83
Format: 490 pages, Paperback
When Anthony Considine creeps into Mellick town with a stolen horse in 1789, it sets the destiny of… read more
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