Four Years in the Cauldron: Telling the Extraordinary Story of America in Crisis
By: Brian O’Donovan
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of a nation at a crucial crossroadsFrom the start of his stint as RTÉ's Washingt…
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1. Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
By: Colm Tóibín
3.72
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and… read more
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"Some people are nice and if you talk to them properly, they can be even nicer."-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
"And she wondered then if she herself were the problem reading malice into motives when there was none intended"-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
"It struck her that he might have told no one, not even his brothers, how he felt, and she thought how lonely that might have been for him."-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
"She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make her think for a while that is must be the prospect of home."-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
2. The Spinning Heart
By: Donal Ryan
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Hardcover
In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As v… read more
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4. The Merchant of Venice
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None
3.78
Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more
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"He will fence with his own shadow."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
5. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
6. 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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"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
7. 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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"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
8. 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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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se 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
9. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Hardcover
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more
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"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
10. The Magician
By: Colm Tóibín
4.02
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, whe… read more
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"...it is a grubby business writing novels. Composers can think about God and the ineffable. We have to imagine the buttons on a coat. [Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
"The Nazis, he realized, were not like the poets of the Munich Revolution. They were street fighters who had taken power without losing their sway over the streets. They managed to be both government …"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
"He [Thomas Mann] remembered this Beethoven quartet [his op. 132] as being sad, sometimes mournful. What was surprising now was that, while the undertone was melancholy, the way the instruments stoppe…"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
11. Water
By: John Boyne
4.33
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more
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12. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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13. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
14. The Year of the Locust
By: Terry Hayes
3.57
Format: 652 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Utterly gripping, elegantly written... most definitely worth the wait’ Observer'Ticks all the boxe… read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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18. The Trial
By: Jo Spain
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical… read more
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19. 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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20. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
21. Aisling Ever After
By: Emer McLysaght
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Living in the Big Apple feels like a movie, especially when Aisling finds her ex-boyfriend John on … read more
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22. Born to be a Footballer: My Autobiography
By: Liam Brady
4.19
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
"Being a footballer was my destiny." After being expelled from school for playing football for his … read more
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23. The Rodfather: Inside the Beautiful (Ugly, Ridiculous, Hilarious) Game
By: Roddy Collins
4.28
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
The hilarious memoir from the funniest man in football!Roddy Collins is a football man - now in the… read more
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24. The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin
By: Aoife Moore
3.82
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking… read more
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25. 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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26. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
By: Mark O'Connell
3.74
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more
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27. To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before: A Joyous Journey Through All of Science
By: Luke O'Neill
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Science is a serious business, right? Wrong.Scientists have been participants in the best reality s… read more
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28. In Sunshine or in Shadow
By: Donald McRae
4.56
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
'One of the most captivating boxing writers on the planet' Barry McGuigan'A superb tale . . . His i… read more
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29. The Racket: A darkly funny memoir about the strange and fascinating world of professional tennis
By: Conor Niland
4.38
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ... It’s Kitchen Confidential for tennis.' Ed Caesar… read more
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30. Among the Trolls: My Journey Through Conspiracyland
By: Marianna Spring
3.95
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
MY NAME IS MARIANNA SPRING AND SOME OF MY TROLLS SAY THEY WANT TO KILL ME Threats and abuse lit… read more
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31. Four Years in the Cauldron: Telling the Extraordinary Story of America in Crisis
By: Brian O’Donovan
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of a nation at a crucial crossroadsFrom the start of his stint as RTÉ's Washingt… read more
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