City of Bohane
By: Kevin Barry
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award Forty years in the future. The once-great city of …
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1. The Association of Small Bombs
By: Karan Mahajan
3.57
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2016 When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi scho… read more
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"Yes, madam,"-Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
"The roots of shame run deep."-Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
"No action is safe from meaning."-Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
"Silence is the small man’s only defense."-Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
2. The Dinner Party and Other Stories
By: Joshua Ferris
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
The first collection of short stories from the author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. Eleven sto… read more
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- fiction
3. The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
By: David Simon , Edward Burns
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously av… read more
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- crime
4. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
5. City of Bohane
By: Kevin Barry
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award Forty years in the future. The once-great city of … read more
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- dystopia
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- fantasy
- science fiction
- crime
- ireland
- irish literature
6. Young Skins
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Making a remarkable entrance onto the Irish and UK literary scene with rave reviews in The Sunday T… read more
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7. The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
By: Sebastian Barry
4.15
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicleas "the finest book to come out of Europe this year," The Wher… read more
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8. 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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- ireland
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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
9. 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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10. The Glorious Heresies
By: Lisa McInerney
3.69
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash… read more
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11. Skippy Dies
By: Paul Murray
4.67
Format: 46 pages, Paperback
A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies wrings every last drop of humour and hopel… read more
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12. 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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- dystopia
- fiction
- science 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
13. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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14. 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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"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
15. Missing Persons: or, My Grandmother's Secrets
By: Clair Wills
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the gaping holes in the fabric o… read more
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16. 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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- irish literature
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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
17. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- crime
- ireland
- irish literature
- fiction
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
18. Topographia Hibernica
By: Blindboy Boatclub
4.33
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The … read more
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19. Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin
By: Katja Oskamp
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Katja Oskamp ist Mitte vierzig, als ihr das Leben fad wird. Das Kind ist aus dem Haus, der Mann ist… read more
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"One of the women was a blonde from Eastern Europe who wore sweaters interwoven with gold. She had the loveliest uniform out of all of us, a tunic with a cinched waist and diagonally arranged buttons.…"-Katja Oskamp, Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin
20. Homesickness
By: Colin Barrett
3.87
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author of critical smash Young Skins, … read more
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21. Hagstone
By: Sinéad Gleeson
3.63
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more
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