The Christmas Tree
By: Jennifer Johnston
4.02
Format: 167 pages, Hardcover
Constance Keating has lived a life of exile alienated from her family and from Ireland. Now she has…
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1. A View of the Harbour
By: Sarah Waters , Elizabeth Taylor
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all' Anne Tyler In the … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
2. Elegy for April (Quirke #3)
By: John Banville , Benjamin Black
3.75
Format: 272 pages,
Quirke--the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist--is back, and he's determined to f… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
3. The Hours
By: None , Michael Cunningham
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, "The Hours" is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan,… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
4. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
5. 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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- fiction
6. 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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7. The Thing About December
By: Donal Ryan
4.14
Format: None pages, ebook
'He heard Daddy one time saying he was a grand quiet boy to Mother when he thought Johnsey couldn't… read more
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8. Christine Falls (Quirke #1)
By: John Banville , Benjamin Black
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of… read more
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9. A Room with a View
By: E.M. Forster
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly,… read more
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10. 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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- literary fiction
- christmas
- fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
"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
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
11. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- literary fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
12. 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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- literary fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
13. The Twyford Code
By: Janice Hallett
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
It's time to solve the murder of the century... Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a … read more
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- fiction
"A lot of talk inside about feelings. How feelings are like visitors with something to give you. If they knock on your door: answer. Let em in. Accept the gift. Say cheers, mate. Otherwise, they said,…"-Janice Hallett, The Twyford Code
14. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.82
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more
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- literary fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
15. Taste: My Life Through Food
By: Stanley Tucci
4.21
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of … read more
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"And anyway one is never drinking alone. Someone else is always drinking somewhere."-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
"Cooking for her is at once a creative outlet and a way of feeding the family well."-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
"Losing a beloved family heirloom is a very real personal loss; they're things that cannot ever be replaced or re-created. But perhaps the most precious heirlooms are family recipes. Like a physical h…"-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
"It is the connection between customer and purveyor that makes our interactions stronger, to me eating well is not just about what tastes good but about the connections that are made through the food …"-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
16. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
17. Kala
By: Colin Walsh
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more
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- literary fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."-Colin Walsh, Kala
18. The Glutton
By: A.K. Blakemore
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
19. The Forester's Daughter
By: Claire Keegan
4.07
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more
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- literary fiction
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
20. Keeping a Christmas Promise
By: Jo Thomas
4.07
Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition
Four friends Twenty-five years ago, Freya and her three best friends created a bucket list. The fu… read more
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- christmas
- fiction
21. The Christmas Tree
By: Jennifer Johnston
4.02
Format: 167 pages, Hardcover
Constance Keating has lived a life of exile alienated from her family and from Ireland. Now she has… read more
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- christmas
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- ireland
- irish literature
