Irish: The Remarkable Saga of a Nation and a City
By: John Burrowes
3.96
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
Irish is the story of the mass migration from Ireland to Glasgow that took place in the wake of the…
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1. The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
By: Tim Pat Coogan
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the wors… read more
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- ireland
2. Women, Race & Class
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.58
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more
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- nonfiction
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class
3. Gertrude
By: Hermann Hesse , Hilda Rosner
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
With Gertrude, Herman Hesse continues his lifelong exploration of the irreconcilable elements of hu… read more
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4. A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
By: Christopher Brookmyre
4.25
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Back when they were students, just like everybody else, Ray Ash and Simon Darcourt had dreams about… read more
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5. Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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6. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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7. 1916 The Easter Rising
By: Tim Pat Coogan
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
An account of the events, personalities and repercussions of the Irish rebellion The Easter Rising … read more
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8. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
9. 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
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- ireland
10. 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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11. Forever Home
By: Graham Norton
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Where do secrets live? Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son … read more
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12. Young Mungo
By: Douglas Stuart
4.38
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more
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"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
13. Meantime
By: Frankie Boyle
3.54
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more
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14. The Weejee Man
By: NP Cunniffe
3.65
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
A nerve-shredding slice of rural horror for fans of Adam Nevill and Andrew Michael Hurley. Force… read more
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"His face had grown dark, except for the reflection of the red fire in his eyes. The house, too, seemed to have filled with shadow, as if a storm was brewing outside. Jim’s eyes beamed red from the sh…"-NP Cunniffe, The Weejee Man
15. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- nonfiction
16. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
By: Angela Hui
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway. Gro… read more
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17. The Young Team
By: Graeme Armstrong
4.49
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife cult… read more
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18. Home Stretch
By: Graham Norton
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this “compelling, bighearted, emotionally precise page-turner” (Sunday Times), the New York Time… read more
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19. On Days Like These: The Incredible Autobiography of a Football Legend
By: Martin O'Neill
4.12
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
Martin O’Neill has had one of the most incredible careers in football – winning European Cups, capt… read more
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20. Irish: The Remarkable Saga of a Nation and a City
By: John Burrowes
3.96
Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition
Irish is the story of the mass migration from Ireland to Glasgow that took place in the wake of the… read more
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21. Jimmy Two Guns: The Life and Crimes of a Gangland Lawyer
By: James J McIntyre
4.20
Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition
The astonishing true story of Glasgow gangland confidant James McIntyre, aka Jimmy Two Guns James … read more
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