Burnt Out: How 'the Troubles' Began
By: Michael McCann
3.97
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
On 14 August 1969, at the age of 14, Michael McCann and his family fled their home. Life changed to…
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1. High-Rise
By: J.G. Ballard
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more
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- british literature
"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
2. The Lady Vanishes
By: Ethel Lina White
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE WORLD-FAMOUS SUSPENSE NOVEL FROM WHICH ALFRED HITCHCOCK CREATED HIS MOVIE MASTERPIECE, REDISCOV… read more
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3. Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland
By: None
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Farmers, shopkeepers, publicans and businessmen were slaughtered in a bloody decade of bombings and… read more
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4. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
"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
5. 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
"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
6. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more
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7. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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- nonfiction
- british literature
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
8. The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7)
By: Adrian McKinty
4.39
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the … read more
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- ireland
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9. A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)
By: Ian Rankin
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The brand-new John Rebus thriller from the #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin. John Rebus st… read more
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10. Haven
By: Emma Donoghue
3.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"Fog makes an island of every man."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"-Emma Donoghue, Haven
11. 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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- irish literature
12. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
13. The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
3.66
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translate… read more
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"What was Kenzo's reaction to all this criticism? His approach was to stay completely silent. He made no move whatsoever to respond to any of it. And, of course, water eventually wins over fire. One b…"-Seishi Yokomizo, The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
14. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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- british literature
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
15. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
By: Wendy Joseph
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- british literature
16. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- irish literature
17. 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
18. The Queen of Dirt Island
By: Donal Ryan
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"Happiness was a strange notion, something that was wrapped neatly, and packed into the closing scenes of television shows and daytime films, sharply relieved on the screen, but blurry in real life, a…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother had walked her to the classroom door and Mammy had cried a bit and Granny had told her to cop on and Nana then had told Granny to cop on herself and t…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
"She felt sad in that moment for anyone in the world who didn’t have a mother like hers. A mother who was standing now above her quarry like a prizefighter in a swell of victory, looking slowly left a…"-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island
19. 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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"Cooking for her is at once a creative outlet and a way of feeding the family well."-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food
"And anyway one is never drinking alone. Someone else is always drinking somewhere."-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
20. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
21. The Colony
By: Audrey Magee
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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- irish literature
22. Falling Animals
By: Sheila Armstrong
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the las… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
23. Boys Don't Cry
By: Fíona Scarlett
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Joe is 17, a gifted artist and a brilliant older brother to 12-year-old Finn. They live with their … read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
24. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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- history
- british literature
25. La muerte de Guernica
By: Paul Preston
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
La destrucción de Guernica el 26 de abril de 1937 quedó grabada a fuego en la conciencia europea: f… read more
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26. Reporting the Troubles: Journalists Tell their Stories of the Northern Ireland conflict
By: Deric Henderson
4.32
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Throughout the seventies, eighties and nineties, the events of the Troubles were headline news thro… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- irish literature
- ireland
27. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
By: Mick Herron
4.00
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more
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- british literature
"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)
28. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country
By: Juliet Nicolson
3.44
Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not st… read more
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- history
- british literature
29. Burnt Out: How 'the Troubles' Began
By: Michael McCann
3.97
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
On 14 August 1969, at the age of 14, Michael McCann and his family fled their home. Life changed to… read more
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- history
- british literature
- nonfiction
- ireland
- irish literature
30. A State in Denial:: British Collaboration with Loyalist Paramilitaries
By: Margaret Urwin
4.00
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
This meticulously researched book uses previously secret official documents to explore the tangled … read more
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31. Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island
By: Ian Cobain
4.21
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a… read more
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- history
- irish literature
- ireland
