6 must-read ireland books like The Plantation of Ulster by Jonathan Bardon

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The Plantation of Ulster

By: Jonathan Bardon

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Plantation of Ulster was the most ambitious scheme of colonisation ever attempted in modern Eur…

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1. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

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2. Hidden Depths (Vera Stanhope, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A hot summer on the Northumberland coast, and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find… read more

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3. The Gathering

By: Anne Enright

3.13

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voice… read more

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  • ireland
"A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking"

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

"I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped."

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

"the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next."

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

"Jej błękit zajął miejsce w szarych zakamarkach jego mózgu i pozostał tam do końca życia"

-Anne Enright, The Gathering

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4. The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more

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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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5. Brighton Rock

By: J.M. Coetzee , Graham Greene

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has kill… read more

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6. Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more

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7. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more

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8. The Comedians

By: Paul Theroux , Graham Greene

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt "Papa Doc" and the Ton… read more

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9. The Quiet American

By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more

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10. The Scottish Nation: A History, 1700-2000

By: T.M. Devine

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

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  • history

11. The Wasp Factory

By: Iain Banks

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed B… read more

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12. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

By: Yukio Mishima , John Nathan

3.85

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the… read more

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"إن الخطر، هو الحياة"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"حتى وإن أبحرت سنوات عديدة، لن تعتاد يوماً على العواصف، وفي كل مرة تتساءل إن كنت ستودع الحياة"."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

13. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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14. Reality is Not What it Seems

By: Carlo Rovelli

3.17

Format: 120 pages,

From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physicscomes a new book about the mind-bendi… read more

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15. The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria

By: Max Adams

3.68

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

Oswald Whiteblade lived one of the most influential and colourful lives in early English history. B… read more

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16. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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17. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.13

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more

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  • history
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

18. Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.26

Format: 32 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now mag… read more

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19. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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20. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • history
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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21. Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

By: Stephen R. Platt

4.32

Format: 555 pages, Kindle Edition

As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of … read more

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  • history
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22. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

By: Michael Pollan

4.27

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a m… read more

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  • history
"The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical."

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination."

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing…"

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"The philosophical implications of "predictive coding" are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless …"

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

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23. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

By: Fintan O'Toole

4.34

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more

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  • history
  • ireland
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"

-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

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24. Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor

By: Valentine Low

3.64

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years study… read more

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  • history
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25. The Night Fire (Renée Ballard, #3; Harry Bosch, #22; Harry Bosch Universe, #33)

By: Michael Connelly

4.28

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renee Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed B… read more

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26. China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

By: Frank Dikötter

3.94

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In China After Mao , award-winning author Frank Dikötter delves into the history of China under the… read more

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  • history
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27. Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground

By: Susan McKay

4.37

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, 'Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People', Su… read more

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  • history
  • ireland
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28. The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925

By: Charles Townshend

3.47

Format: None pages, Hardcover

'A model of research and analysis ... Townshend's concise and intelligent book tells a painful stor… read more

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  • history
  • ireland
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29. The Plantation of Ulster

By: Jonathan Bardon

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Plantation of Ulster was the most ambitious scheme of colonisation ever attempted in modern Eur… read more

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  • history
  • ireland
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30. A United Ireland: Why Unification Is Inevitable and How It Will Come About

By: Kevin Meagher

3.95

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

For over two centuries, the 'Irish question' has dogged UK politics. Though the Good Friday Agreeme… read more

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  • history
  • ireland
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31. A People Under Siege: The Unionists of Northern Ireland, from Partition to Brexit and Beyond

By: Aaron Edwards

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Brexit referendum of 2016 triggered one of the most profound constitutional crises in modern Br… read more

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4.21

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4.13

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4.20

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4.32

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3.83

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3.76

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3.73

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