The Island of Longing
By: Anne Griffin
4.15
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
One unremarkable afternoon, Rosie watched, from her bedroom window, her daughter Saoirse come up th…
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1. 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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2. 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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3. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
4. The Island of Longing
By: Anne Griffin
4.15
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
One unremarkable afternoon, Rosie watched, from her bedroom window, her daughter Saoirse come up th… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
5. 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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"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
6. Somebody Knows
By: Michelle McDonagh
4.16
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
: A gripping, addictive page-turner about dangerous secrets and the lengths people will go to keep … read more
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- irish literature
7. There's Something I Have to Tell You
By: Michelle McDonagh
4.04
Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition
HOME IS WHERE THE SECRETS ARE BURIED When two bodies are found on Glenbeg Farm, the local commun… read more
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8. 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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9. 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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10. Tell Me What I Am
By: Una Mannion
3.92
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
Two women wrenched apart by a family member’s disappearance must find a way back to each other in t… read more
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11. Service
By: Sarah Gilmartin
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?… read more
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12. Windmill Hill
By: Lucy Atkins
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1970s, a single night in a remote hunting lodge with a Hollywood director and his leading la… read more
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13. This Family
By: Kate Sawyer
3.83
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more
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14. The Lodgers
By: Eithne Shortall
4.03
Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition
An uplifting and heart-warming tale of friendship, community and a mystery package… One house. T… read more
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15. The Home Scar
By: Kathleen MacMahon
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the Women's Prize longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky'The home scar - that's what they c… read more
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16. Winter People
By: Gráinne Murphy
4.10
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Sis Cotter has lived her whole life in a small house by her beloved beach. Here, she grew up, reare… read more
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17. The Returned
By: Amanda Cassidy
4.12
Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition
‘A dark, haunting tale with an emotional gut punch that stays with you long after the final page. A… read more
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18. The Ghostlights
By: Gráinne Murphy
3.85
Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition
Can we ever truly escape our past? The Ghostlights is the poignant story of a family of Irish wome… read more
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19. Whatever Happened to Birdy Troy?
By: Rachael English
4.11
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
In the early 1980s, The Diamonds - Ireland's trailblazing all-woman rock band - were on the brink o… read more
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20. The Last Days of Joy
By: Anne Tiernan
3.97
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
WHEN HER SECRET COMES TO THE SURFACE, CAN HER FAMILY SURVIVE IT? The tender, immersive and beaut… read more
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21. Heart, Be at Peace
By: Donal Ryan
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ S… read more
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