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…
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1. The Gathering
By: Anne Enright
3.13
Format: 261 pages, Paperback
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voice… read more
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- literature
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- ireland
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"A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking"-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped."-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next."-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"Jej błękit zajął miejsce w szarych zakamarkach jego mózgu i pozostał tam do końca życia"-Anne Enright, The Gathering
2. The Van (The Barrytown Trilogy, #3)
By: Roddy Doyle
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The further misadventures of the Rabbitte family in working-class Dublin--from the author of The Co… read more
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3. Station Island
By: Seamus Heaney
4.18
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
The title poem of this collection, Seamus Heaney's first after Field Work (1979), is set on an isla… read more
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- literature
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"To work, her dumb lunge says, is to move a certain mass ...through a certain distance, is to pull your weight and feel exact and equal to it. Feel dragged upon. And buoyant."-Seamus Heaney, Station Island
"The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dan…"-Seamus Heaney, Station Island
4. Even the Dead (Quirke #7)
By: John Banville , Benjamin Black
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
A suspicious death, a pregnant woman suddenly gone missing: Quirke's latest case leads him inexorab… read more
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- mystery
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
5. Wolf on a String
By: Benjamin Black
3.68
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Benjamin Black turns his eye to sixteenth century Prague and a story of murder, … read more
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- mystery
- fiction
6. 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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7. 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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- ireland
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8. The Children of Dynmouth
By: William Trevor
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
A small, pretty seaside town is harshly exposed by a young boy's curiosity. His prurient interest, … read more
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9. A Death in Summer (Quirke #4)
By: John Banville , Benjamin Black
3.91
Format: 736 pages,
One of The Chicago Tribune's Best Reads of 2011 One of Dublin's most powerful men meets a violent e… read more
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- ireland
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11. 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
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12. Good Behaviour
By: Molly Keane , Marian Keyes
4.25
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state… read more
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13. The Names
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Namesis considered the book which began t… read more
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14. The Zone of Interest
By: Martin Amis
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more
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15. The Book of Daniel
By: E.L. Doctorow
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents knock on the Bronx apartment door of a Communist … read more
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16. Vengeance (Quirke #5)
By: John Banville , Benjamin Black
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A bizarre suicide leads to a scandal and then still more blood, as one of our most brilliant crime … read more
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17. Holy Orders (Quirke #6)
By: John Banville , Benjamin Black
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
She looked at him and smiled sadly. 'You've lived too long among the dead, Quirke,' she said. He no… read more
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18. Amongst Women
By: John McGahern
3.00
Format: 81 pages,
Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla le… read more
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19. 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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20. Murphy
By: Samuel Beckett
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Murphy', Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in… read more
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21. The Silver Swan (Quirke #2)
By: John Banville , Benjamin Black
3.80
Format: None pages,
The inimitable Quirke returns in another spellbinding crime novel, in which a young woman's dubious… read more
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22. The Snapper (The Barrytown Trilogy, #2)
By: Roddy Doyle
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meet the Rabbitte family, motley bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich … read more
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23. 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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- literature
- fiction
- 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
24. 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
25. 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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- literature
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- ireland
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"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
26. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
27. 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
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"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
28. Blue Ruin
By: Hari Kunzru
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more
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29. 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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- irish literature
30. The Secret Guests (St. John Strafford, #1)
By: Benjamin Black
3.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
As London endures nightly German bombings, Britain's secret service whisks the princesses Elizabeth… read more
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31. Last Stories
By: William Trevor
3.96
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes i… read more
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