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The Gathering (Man Booker Prize) Best Price: $6.55 Anne Enright's "The Gathering" explores issues of family, love, loss, in the voice of... | This Charming Man: A Novel Best Price: $14.48 I have liked almost all of Keyes' other books and was very excited to read her latest. However,... | The Secret Scripture Best Price: $15.38 So many novels these days begin well, and then give the impression that the author is... | The Reapers: A Thriller Best Price: $15.00 This book is filled with useless and unneeded descriptive paragraphs that go on and on. The... | The Likeness: A Novel Best Price: $17.13 The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestselling psychological thriller In... |
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Christine Falls: A Novel Best Price: $6.70 Christine Falls is the name of a young woman who dies just before the start of this mystery... | The Silver Swan: A Novel Best Price: $12.74 Banville is a wonderful writer (I enjoyed THE SEA), but he is not, as others have noted, a good... | In the Woods Best Price: $3.99 I loved this book. The author melded together two plots, both mysteries, in an intricate and... | Walk the Blue Fields: Stories Best Price: $6.88 Claire Keegan’s brilliant debut collection, Antarctica , was a Los Angeles Times ... | The Sea Best Price: $3.40 John Banville has a great ear for prose, both his own and others (in his outstanding literary... |
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The Complete Novels (Everyman's Library) Best Price: $15.65 My favorite reading experiences often occur when a friend with a good (if twisted or dry) sense... | There's No Place Like Here Best Price: $5.99 First, let me say that I love books written by Cecelia Ahern. I like her style, her characters,... | A Long Long Way Best Price: $1.78 Ireland has a strange relationship with England. For generations we were part of the British... | The Sea (Man Booker Prize) Best Price: $5.98 I have read several books by John Banville, and this one I think could have benefited heavily... | The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Best Price: $0.01 At first the story swung forth and back too much for my reading taste. Still I could not put the... |
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At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) Best Price: $8.60 Nabokov said, of the praise lavished on a book he hated, that it amounted to, "an absurd... | Troubles (New York Review Books Classics) Best Price: $4.99 The giant decaying Victorian Majestic Hotel in County Wicklow overrun by cats and plants in J.... | Castle Rackrent and Ennui (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.47 Edgeworth wrote about the protestant upper class in Ireland around the turn of the 18th/19th... | The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: Volume III of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove Centenary Editions) Best Price: $13.94 Beautiful book. Love it. Perfect for a super nice but reasonable priced gift.
Beckett: A... | Translations: A Play (Faber Paperbacks) Best Price: $3.35 I'll admit I had expected this play to be another political statement about disappearing... |
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If You Could See Me Now Best Price: $3.69 This is a really cute story. Cecelia Ahern has become one of my favorite authors. She truly is... | Ulysses (Modern Library) Best Price: $11.89 Jim Norton, the actor reading this rendition, is fabulous in all his characters. And he should... | Paula Spencer Best Price: $7.97 A couple of other reviewers have told what story there is to this novel,so I won't try to... | Pack Up the Moon Best Price: $6.00 This story was engaging, but the editing errors and weaknesses made it hard to focus. Examples:... | The Poems, Short Fiction, and Criticism of Samuel Beckett: Volume IV of The Grove Centenary Editions Best Price: $13.94 An inspiration for my writing and my creativity, and I could never dare emulate him well enough.... |
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Zoli: A Novel Best Price: $7.80 Although the premise of the book is interesting, the execution is extremely disappointing. The... | Quentins Best Price: $3.95 The #1 New York Times bestseller? in trade paperback for the first time. Is it possible to... | The Portrait of A Lady (Signet Classics) Best Price: $2.87 When Isabel Archer, a bright and independent young American, makes her first trip to Europe in... | Laughter in the Dark Best Price: $7.67 Nabokov certainly was fascinated by the affect young women (girls?) had upon older men. This... | The Deportees: and Other Stories Best Price: $2.50 A collection of short stories describing the new immigrants to Ireland - how Irish can they... |
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The Go-Between (New York Review Books Classics) Best Price: $6.00 In the brutally hot summer of 1900, Leo Colston, aged 12, is invited by his friend Marcus... | The Tain Best Price: $2.50 A few weeks ago, I compared (on Amazon under both versions) the new Oxford UP translation from... | Modern Irish Drama (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $10.80 An excellent teaching texts for the pre-1960 years, but badly needs updating with a few more... | The Woman Who Walked into Doors Best Price: $4.99 Everything was great. The book came quickly...came in great condition...and was a great... | Novels I of Samuel Beckett: Volume I of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove Centenary Editions) Best Price: $10.98 This is a great collection of Beckett's novels, including: Murphy, Watt, and Mercier and Camier.... |
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The Giggler Treatment Best Price: $1.00 this book sucks! its a insult to nature. Its horrible writtin and dull. They use the same jokes... | Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel Best Price: $0.75 An old adage says that some good things are better left alone - and I've certainly found this to... | The Barrytown Trilogy Best Price: $4.21 Though Doyle never intended to write a trilogy, his first three novels are so true-to-life and... | Novels II of Samuel Beckett: Volume II of The Grove Centenary Editions (Works of Samuel Beckett the Grove Centenary Editions) Best Price: $10.98 Edited by Paul Auster, this four–volume set of Beckett's canon has been designed by... | Mothers and Sons: Stories Best Price: $7.28 Often I had to search for the mother-son relationship in these stories, because I was looking... |
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Athena Best Price: $6.11 The old dilemma: award stars according to the author's mastery (close to 5) or to reflect my own... | A Star Called Henry (The Last Roundup) Best Price: $3.27 A good friend of mine recommended this as an amazing book. Then I went to buy it at the book... | Moon Flower Best Price: $14.18 Typical J.P.Hogan science fiction with a solid nononsense message about life on our planet and... | The Commitments Best Price: $6.25 Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958 and saw his first novel, "The Commitments"... | Landing Best Price: $0.01 Life is about to change for Jude Turner in Emma Donoghue's novel, Landing. The 25 year old... |
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Echoes of an Alien Sky Best Price: $3.93 I haven't read anything by James Hogan in a long time so I thought I would give this one a go. ... | Past Secrets Best Price: $2.50 I like Cathy Kelly books, and have read them all, but I think this might be my last for a while.... | The Story of the Night: A Novel Best Price: $7.49 Colm Toibin is one of my favorite Irish authors writing today. Among his books that I've read to... | Dracula (Signet Classics) Best Price: $1.70 Surprisingly "Denn die Toten reiten schnell" or "For the dead travel fast"... | Matter of Fact: Poems Best Price: $8.81 Eamon Grennan’s keen vision is “obsessed and suffused with light, befitting... |
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Circle of Kindness: An Irish Journey of the Heart Best Price: $13.46 Pistoulet, Villa della Luna & now Circle of Kindness are all sweet & tenderly written... | The New York Stories of Henry James (New York Review Books Classics) Best Price: $10.09 I am a simple man. And when I read a story, I would like to have the entire story before me, and... | Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $8.37 Tales of the Elders of Ireland is the first complete translation of the late Middle-Irish... | | |