The Valley Of The Squinting Windows (1920)
By: Brinsley MacNamara
3.91
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Valley of the Squinting Windows is a classic Irish novel set in central Ireland c. 1914–16. Garradr…
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1. The Distant Hours
By: Kate Morton
3.89
Format: 562 pages, Hardcover
A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill finds herself on a journey to Milderhurst … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well."-Kate Morton, The Distant Hours
"History in the storyteller's hand was a potent force indeed,...."-Kate Morton, The Distant Hours
"it was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled."-Kate Morton, The Distant Hours
"They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions..."-Kate Morton, The Distant Hours
2. The Green Fool
By: Patrick Kavanagh
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Time hardly mattered in the village of Mucker, the birthplace of poet and writer Patrick Kavanagh. … read more
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- ireland
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3. That They May Face The Rising Sun
By: John McGahern
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Widely considered to be the finest Irish writer of fiction at work today, John McGahern gives us a … read more
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4. May We Borrow Your Husband & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life
By: Graham Greene
4.00
Format: None pages,
Affairs, obsessions, grand passions and tiny ardours course through twelve poignant and wryly humor… read more
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5. The Collected Stories
By: John McGahern
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
These 34 funny, tragic, bracing, and acerbic stories represent the complete short fiction of one of… read more
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- ireland
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6. The Blackwater Lightship
By: Colm Tóibín
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come toge… read more
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7. The Woodlanders
By: Thomas Hardy , Patricia Ingham
2.84
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in… read more
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8. The Book of Evidence
By: John Banville
3.64
Format: 192 pages,
Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, a thirty-eight-year-old m… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
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9. The Barracks
By: John McGahern
3.75
Format: None pages,
Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness, marries into the enclosed Irish village … read more
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10. Revolutionary Road
By: Richard Yates
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talen… read more
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11. Nights of Rain and Stars
By: Maeve Binchy
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
In a Greek taverna, high over the small village of Aghia Anna, four people meet for the first time:… read more
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12. Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)
By: None
4.22
Format: 206 pages,
Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in h… read more
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13. Silver Bay
By: Jojo Moyes
3.79
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, in an earlier work available in t… read more
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- fiction
"We had not mentioned love, but my every nerve ending throbbed with it, and I carried it in a cloud around me, like sea mist."-Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay
"Hannah ran past, beaming. I remember that feeling--when you're a kid and it's your birthday and for one day everyone makes you feel like the most special person in the world."-Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay
"...all I felt when I saw Vanessa was this weird sensation I used to get when I was a kid, like when you're at a friend's house and your mum comes to get you before you're ready."-Jojo Moyes, Silver Bay
14. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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- ireland
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
15. The Mermaids Singing (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #1)
By: Val McDermid
3.66
Format: 325 pages,
Val McDermid stunned readers and critics alike with the publication of her brilliant thriller,A PLA… read more
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16. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more
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17. 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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18. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"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
19. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
20. Holy Island (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #1)
By: L.J. Ross
4.01
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
Detective Chief Inspector Ryan retreats to Holy Island seeking sanctuary when he is forced to take … read more
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21. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
22. The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)
By: John Banville
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel … read more
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- irish literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
23. April in Spain (Quirke, #8)
By: John Banville
3.54
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish … read more
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24. Murder in Galway (Home to Ireland Mystery, #1)
By: Carlene O'Connor
3.93
Format: 330 pages, Mass Market Paperback
New Yorker Tara Meehan's first trip to Galway may be her last . . . Tara never imagined her intr… read more
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25. Together, Again
By: Milly Johnson
4.32
Format: None pages, Audiobook
PRE-ORDER THE BRAND NEW MILLY JOHNSON NOVEL, COMING IN SPRING 2024! Together again after years apar… read more
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26. 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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- irish literature
27. The Guest House by the Sea
By: Faith Hogan
4.21
Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition
People come to the guest house for fresh air and views across the Atlantic. But if they're lucky, t… read more
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28. These Days
By: Lucy Caldwell
3.71
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war -- so … read more
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29. Murder in an Irish Churchyard (Irish Village Mystery, #3)
By: Carlene O'Connor
4.07
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
After joining the police force of her small Irish village, a local woman must investigate the murde… read more
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30. Hide and Seek
By: Andrea Mara
4.15
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
CLOSE YOUR EYESThe game of hide and seek is over, everyone has gone home, but little Lily Murphy ha… read more
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31. The Valley Of The Squinting Windows (1920)
By: Brinsley MacNamara
3.91
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Valley of the Squinting Windows is a classic Irish novel set in central Ireland c. 1914–16. Garradr… read more
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