Irland

Irlands værbitte kyster, bølgende åser og eldgamle steiner setter scenen for fortellinger om tilhørighet, opprør og forvandling i et land der myte og modernitet danser sammen. Her finner du meditasjoner over keltisk spiritualitet, skarp kulturkritikk, intime memoarer og litterære verk som fanger både den lyriske sjelen og de sammensatte virkeligheter på Den grønne øya.

Irland Boksammendrag

Binding 13

av Chloe Walsh

A bullied girl and a rugby star. His guilt. Her secrets. Neither can walk away.

4.45

600 000+

🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 💞 Hurt Comfort 🛡️ Protective Hero 💔 Domestic Abuse Survival ☘️ Small Town Ireland

Oppslukende

Binding 13

A bullied girl and a rugby star. His guilt. Her secrets. Neither can walk away.

av Chloe Walsh 2018 626 sider

4.45

600 000+ vurderinger

🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 💞 Hurt Comfort 🛡️ Protective Hero 💔 Domestic Abuse Survival ☘️ Small Town Ireland

Intermezzo

av Sally Rooney • 2024

Two grieving brothers in Ireland fall into consuming age-gap affairs while their own bond fractures.

3.79

300 000+

🇮🇪 Contemporary Ireland 🧩 Age Gap Romance 💔 Love Triangle ♟️ Chess Prodigy 👥 Sibling Tension

Intermezzo

Two grieving brothers in Ireland fall into consuming age-gap affairs while their own bond fractures.

av Sally Rooney 2024 464 sider

3.79

300 000+ vurderinger

🇮🇪 Contemporary Ireland 🧩 Age Gap Romance 💔 Love Triangle ♟️ Chess Prodigy 👥 Sibling Tension

Prophet Song

av Paul Lynch • 2023

When secret police knock, a mother must protect her family from a collapsing Ireland.

4.03

87 000+

🏛️ Political Dystopia 🛡️ Mother As Protector 💔 Family Separation 🎖️ Forced Conscription 🧳 Refugee Journey

Prophet Song

When secret police knock, a mother must protect her family from a collapsing Ireland.

av Paul Lynch 2023 259 sider

4.03

87 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ Political Dystopia 🛡️ Mother As Protector 💔 Family Separation 🎖️ Forced Conscription 🧳 Refugee Journey

Trespasses

av Louise Kennedy • 2022

A Catholic teacher risks everything for an affair with a Protestant barrister during the Troubles.

3.96

53 000+

🕊️ The Troubles 🔥 Forbidden Affair ⏳ Age Gap Relationship ⚔️ Sectarian Divide 📚 Teacher Protagonist

Trespasses

A Catholic teacher risks everything for an affair with a Protestant barrister during the Troubles.

av Louise Kennedy 2022 292 sider

3.96

53 000+ vurderinger

🕊️ The Troubles 🔥 Forbidden Affair ⏳ Age Gap Relationship ⚔️ Sectarian Divide 📚 Teacher Protagonist

Samtaler mellom venner

av Sally Rooney • 2017

A young poet's secret affair with a married actor unravels the friendship she once called love.

3.73

600 000+

💔 Extramarital Affair 🏛️ Class Tensions 💜 Bisexual Protagonist ⏳ Age Gap Relationship 🇮🇪 Contemporary Dublin

Samtaler mellom venner

A young poet's secret affair with a married actor unravels the friendship she once called love.

av Sally Rooney 2017 304 sider

3.73

600 000+ vurderinger

💔 Extramarital Affair 🏛️ Class Tensions 💜 Bisexual Protagonist ⏳ Age Gap Relationship 🇮🇪 Contemporary Dublin

The Trespasser

av Tana French • 2016

A domestic murder case feels like a trap to a Dublin detective battling her own squad.

3.99

97 000+

🚔 Police Procedural 📚 Literary Crime 🤐 Police Cover-Up 💼 Toxic Workplace 🕵️‍♀️ Outsider Detective

The Trespasser

A domestic murder case feels like a trap to a Dublin detective battling her own squad.

av Tana French 2016 464 sider

3.99

97 000+ vurderinger

🚔 Police Procedural 📚 Literary Crime 🤐 Police Cover-Up 💼 Toxic Workplace 🕵️‍♀️ Outsider Detective

Dublinere

av James Joyce • 1914

Fifteen Dubliners reach for escape and find the limits of their world.

3.83

100 000+

📖 Modernist Fiction 🥀 Quiet Desperation 🪨 Emotional Stasis 🚪 Failed Escape 🇮🇪 Dublin Life

Dublinere

Fifteen Dubliners reach for escape and find the limits of their world.

av James Joyce 1914 352 sider

3.83

100 000+ vurderinger

📖 Modernist Fiction 🥀 Quiet Desperation 🪨 Emotional Stasis 🚪 Failed Escape 🇮🇪 Dublin Life

Små ting som disse

av Claire Keegan • 2021

A coal merchant finds a girl locked in a convent shed. His Irish town stays silent.

4.08

400 000+

🔒 Magdalene Laundries 🏘️ Irish Small Town ⚖️ Moral Reckoning ❄️ Winter Atmosphere 💔 Institutional Abuse

Små ting som disse

A coal merchant finds a girl locked in a convent shed. His Irish town stays silent.

av Claire Keegan 2021 118 sider

4.08

400 000+ vurderinger

🔒 Magdalene Laundries 🏘️ Irish Small Town ⚖️ Moral Reckoning ❄️ Winter Atmosphere 💔 Institutional Abuse

Long Island

av Colm Tóibín • 2024

An Irish immigrant flees home after her husband's betrayal, to find her former lover engaged.

3.70

89 000+

💔 Love Triangle 🏠 Return To Hometown ☁️ Melancholy 🇮🇪 Irish Diaspora 📆 1970s

Long Island

An Irish immigrant flees home after her husband's betrayal, to find her former lover engaged.

av Colm Tóibín 2024 294 sider

3.70

89 000+ vurderinger

💔 Love Triangle 🏠 Return To Hometown ☁️ Melancholy 🇮🇪 Irish Diaspora 📆 1970s

Keeping 13

av Chloe Walsh

A teenage rugby star's girlfriend is beaten by her father. He fights the system that must save her.

4.52

400 000+

🩹 Trauma Recovery 🏉 Rugby Romance 🛡️ Protective Hero 💔 Damaged Heroine 🏠 Found Family

Oppslukende

Keeping 13

A teenage rugby star's girlfriend is beaten by her father. He fights the system that must save her.

av Chloe Walsh 2018 938 sider

4.52

400 000+ vurderinger

🩹 Trauma Recovery 🏉 Rugby Romance 🛡️ Protective Hero 💔 Damaged Heroine 🏠 Found Family

Vakre verden, hvor er du

av Sally Rooney • 2021

A novelist swipes right on a warehouse worker. Her best friend falls for a lifelong friend.

3.52

500 000+

📱 Millennial Fiction 👭 Female Friendship 🔄 Cross-Class Romance 💕 Friends To Lovers 🌊 Coastal Ireland

Vakre verden, hvor er du

A novelist swipes right on a warehouse worker. Her best friend falls for a lifelong friend.

av Sally Rooney 2021 337 sider

3.52

500 000+ vurderinger

📱 Millennial Fiction 👭 Female Friendship 🔄 Cross-Class Romance 💕 Friends To Lovers 🌊 Coastal Ireland

Ulysses

av James Joyce • 1922

A cuckold adman and a mother-haunted teacher spend one day in Dublin, their inner worlds colliding.

3.76

100 000+

🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 📅 Single Day Narrative 🖋️ Experimental Writing 🇮🇪 Dublin Setting 🏛️ Mythological Framework

Ulysses

A cuckold adman and a mother-haunted teacher spend one day in Dublin, their inner worlds colliding.

av James Joyce 1922 783 sider

3.76

100 000+ vurderinger

🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 📅 Single Day Narrative 🖋️ Experimental Writing 🇮🇪 Dublin Setting 🏛️ Mythological Framework

Anam Cara

av John O'Donohue • 1996

Friendship as soul-recognition, body as sanctuary, death as lifelong companion: Celtic wisdom.

4.32

11 000+

🍀 Celtic Spirituality ✝️ Christian Mysticism 💞 Soul Friendship 🧘 Contemplative Life 📜 Poetic Philosophy

Anam Cara

Friendship as soul-recognition, body as sanctuary, death as lifelong companion: Celtic wisdom.

av John O'Donohue 1996 283 sider

4.32

11 000+ vurderinger

🍀 Celtic Spirituality ✝️ Christian Mysticism 💞 Soul Friendship 🧘 Contemplative Life 📜 Poetic Philosophy

Eternal Echoes

av John O'Donohue • 1998

Celtic wisdom reframes longing as the soul pulling you toward belonging, not a void to escape.

4.42

1 000+

🍀 Celtic Wisdom 📖 Spiritual Essays 🕯️ Soul Work 🧘 Contemplative Spirituality 🌿 Nature Mysticism

Eternal Echoes

Celtic wisdom reframes longing as the soul pulling you toward belonging, not a void to escape.

av John O'Donohue 1998 306 sider

4.42

1 000+ vurderinger

🍀 Celtic Wisdom 📖 Spiritual Essays 🕯️ Soul Work 🧘 Contemplative Spirituality 🌿 Nature Mysticism

Sunburn

av Chloe Michelle Howarth

Her first love is another girl. 1990s Ireland demands she hide behind the boy next door.

4.28

61 000+

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🤫 Secret Relationship 💕 Best Friends To Lovers 📜 Compulsory Heterosexuality ✝️ Catholic Guilt

Oppslukende

Sunburn

Her first love is another girl. 1990s Ireland demands she hide behind the boy next door.

av Chloe Michelle Howarth 2023 288 sider

4.28

61 000+ vurderinger

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Coming Of Age 🤫 Secret Relationship 💕 Best Friends To Lovers 📜 Compulsory Heterosexuality ✝️ Catholic Guilt

Normale mennesker

av Sally Rooney • 2018

A popular boy and a wealthy outcast girl hide their magnetic connection in small-town Ireland.

3.81

1 000 000+

📚 Literary Coming Of Age 🤫 Secret Relationship 💷 Class Difference 😶‍🌫️ Emotional Repression 🏘️ Small Town Ireland

Normale mennesker

A popular boy and a wealthy outcast girl hide their magnetic connection in small-town Ireland.

av Sally Rooney 2018 273 sider

3.81

1 000 000+ vurderinger

📚 Literary Coming Of Age 🤫 Secret Relationship 💷 Class Difference 😶‍🌫️ Emotional Repression 🏘️ Small Town Ireland

Hjertets usynlige furier

av John Boyne • 2017

Adopted into a family that calls him stranger, a gay man searches a lifetime for belonging.

4.51

200 000+

🕰️ Epic Historical Saga ☘️ Mid-Century Ireland ✝️ Catholic Guilt 🏠 Found Family 👶 Adoption Story

Hjertets usynlige furier

Adopted into a family that calls him stranger, a gay man searches a lifetime for belonging.

av John Boyne 2017 582 sider

4.51

200 000+ vurderinger

🕰️ Epic Historical Saga ☘️ Mid-Century Ireland ✝️ Catholic Guilt 🏠 Found Family 👶 Adoption Story

Mr Salary

av Sally Rooney • 2016

For her dying father, she returns to Dublin and the older man she has never left.

3.73

42 000+

📚 Literary Romance 🕰️ Age Gap 💭 Unspoken Attraction 💔 Dying Parent 🌧️ Melancholy

Mr Salary

For her dying father, she returns to Dublin and the older man she has never left.

av Sally Rooney 2016 33 sider

3.73

42 000+ vurderinger

📚 Literary Romance 🕰️ Age Gap 💭 Unspoken Attraction 💔 Dying Parent 🌧️ Melancholy

How the Irish Saved Civilization

av Thomas Cahill • 1995

After Rome's fall, Irish monks became the unlikely saviors of classical literature.

3.81

47 000+

🇮🇪 Irish History ✝️ Celtic Christianity 📚 Monastic Libraries 📜 Preservation Of Knowledge 🗺️ Early Medieval Europe

How the Irish Saved Civilization

After Rome's fall, Irish monks became the unlikely saviors of classical literature.

av Thomas Cahill 1995 256 sider

3.81

47 000+ vurderinger

🇮🇪 Irish History ✝️ Celtic Christianity 📚 Monastic Libraries 📜 Preservation Of Knowledge 🗺️ Early Medieval Europe

I skogen

av Tana French • 2007

Returning to the woods where his friends vanished, a Dublin detective probes a child's murder.

3.78

400 000+

👮 Police Procedural 📚 Literary Crime 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 💭 Buried Memories

I skogen

Returning to the woods where his friends vanished, a Dublin detective probes a child's murder.

av Tana French 2007 448 sider

3.78

400 000+ vurderinger

👮 Police Procedural 📚 Literary Crime 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 💭 Buried Memories

Brooklyn

av Colm Tóibín • 2009

An Irish emigrant finds love in Brooklyn, then a death back home forces an impossible choice.

3.75

100 000+

🗽 Immigrant Experience 📚 Quiet Literary Realism 🌍 Between Two Worlds 🕯️ Quiet Melancholy 🇮🇪 Small-Town Ireland

Brooklyn

An Irish emigrant finds love in Brooklyn, then a death back home forces an impossible choice.

av Colm Tóibín 2009 262 sider

3.75

100 000+ vurderinger

🗽 Immigrant Experience 📚 Quiet Literary Realism 🌍 Between Two Worlds 🕯️ Quiet Melancholy 🇮🇪 Small-Town Ireland

The Missing Sister

av Lucinda Riley

An emerald ring ties six sisters to a woman fleeing a past she buried in Ireland.

4.20

91 000+

⏳ Dual Timeline Saga 🫂 Found Family 🧺 Foundling Origin 💔 Inherited Trauma 👻 Phantom Threat

Oppslukende

The Missing Sister

An emerald ring ties six sisters to a woman fleeing a past she buried in Ireland.

av Lucinda Riley 2021 805 sider

4.20

91 000+ vurderinger

⏳ Dual Timeline Saga 🫂 Found Family 🧺 Foundling Origin 💔 Inherited Trauma 👻 Phantom Threat

The Cold Cold Ground

av Adrian McKinty • 2012

A taunting postcard draws a Catholic detective into a string of murders in Troubles-era Belfast.

3.91

16 000+

☘️ Irish Noir 🔥 The Troubles 👮 Police Procedural 🔪 Serial Killer ✉️ Taunting Killer

The Cold Cold Ground

A taunting postcard draws a Catholic detective into a string of murders in Troubles-era Belfast.

av Adrian McKinty 2012 11 sider

3.91

16 000+ vurderinger

☘️ Irish Noir 🔥 The Troubles 👮 Police Procedural 🔪 Serial Killer ✉️ Taunting Killer

Someone in the Attic

av Andrea Mara • 2024

A Dublin mother finds viral videos of her home filmed by someone living in her attic.

3.72

27 000+

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🚪 Home Invasion 👀 Hidden Intruder 🎭 Fake Identity 🔍 Paranoid Atmosphere

Someone in the Attic

A Dublin mother finds viral videos of her home filmed by someone living in her attic.

av Andrea Mara 2024 368 sider

3.72

27 000+ vurderinger

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🚪 Home Invasion 👀 Hidden Intruder 🎭 Fake Identity 🔍 Paranoid Atmosphere

Likheten

av Tana French

To catch a killer, a detective takes a dead woman's place among friends who believe she survived.

4.06

100 000+

🪞 DoppelgäNger Mystery 📚 Dark Academia 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🏚️ Old House Secrets

Oppslukende

Likheten

To catch a killer, a detective takes a dead woman's place among friends who believe she survived.

av Tana French 2008 466 sider

4.06

100 000+ vurderinger

🪞 DoppelgäNger Mystery 📚 Dark Academia 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🏚️ Old House Secrets

Say Nothing

av Patrick Radden Keefe • 2018

The peace deal that asked everyone to forget, and the one murder that couldn't stay buried.

4.47

100 000+

☘️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🕯️ The Disappeared 💭 Memory And Conflict 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Say Nothing

The peace deal that asked everyone to forget, and the one murder that couldn't stay buried.

av Patrick Radden Keefe 2018 441 sider

4.47

100 000+ vurderinger

☘️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🕯️ The Disappeared 💭 Memory And Conflict 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Brida

av Paulo Coelho • 1990

A young Irishwoman asks a magus to unlock her power. He unlocks a centuries-old bond instead.

3.51

84 000+

🧹 Witchy Coming Of Age 💫 Soulmate Destiny 🍀 Rural Ireland 🌲 Forest Magic 🌸 Feminine Spirituality

Brida

A young Irishwoman asks a magus to unlock her power. He unlocks a centuries-old bond instead.

av Paulo Coelho 1990 212 sider

3.51

84 000+ vurderinger

🧹 Witchy Coming Of Age 💫 Soulmate Destiny 🍀 Rural Ireland 🌲 Forest Magic 🌸 Feminine Spirituality

The Lost Letters of Aisling

av Cynthia Ellingsen • 2024

Her Irish grandmother's letters reveal a wartime love and a child the family never named.

4.31

24 000+

🍀 Irish Historical Fiction 🔄 Dual Timeline Narrative 💌 Hidden Love Letters 🔍 Lost Child Search 🤝 Ride Or Die Friendship

The Lost Letters of Aisling

Her Irish grandmother's letters reveal a wartime love and a child the family never named.

av Cynthia Ellingsen 2024 302 sider

4.31

24 000+ vurderinger

🍀 Irish Historical Fiction 🔄 Dual Timeline Narrative 💌 Hidden Love Letters 🔍 Lost Child Search 🤝 Ride Or Die Friendship

What the Wind Knows

av Amy Harmon • 2019

A writer tumbles into 1921 Ireland, mistaken for her ancestor, and falls for a rebel doctor.

4.36

100 000+

🕰️ Time Slip Romance 🇮🇪 Irish Independence 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family 🎭 Mistaken Identity 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

What the Wind Knows

A writer tumbles into 1921 Ireland, mistaken for her ancestor, and falls for a rebel doctor.

av Amy Harmon 2019 418 sider

4.36

100 000+ vurderinger

🕰️ Time Slip Romance 🇮🇪 Irish Independence 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family 🎭 Mistaken Identity 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Søkeren

av Tana French • 2020

A retired detective's Irish solitude shatters when a teen asks for his help finding her brother.

3.80

100 000+

🏚️ Rural Noir 📖 Literary Crime 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🔍 Retired Detective 🔥 Slow Burn Mystery

Søkeren

A retired detective's Irish solitude shatters when a teen asks for his help finding her brother.

av Tana French 2020 451 sider

3.80

100 000+ vurderinger

🏚️ Rural Noir 📖 Literary Crime 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🔍 Retired Detective 🔥 Slow Burn Mystery

My Left Foot

av Christy Brown • 1954

His mind was sound, his body locked. A left foot and yellow chalk proved it.

4.05

9 000+

🦽 Physical Disability Memoir 🇮🇪 Irish Autobiography 👩‍👦 Mother-Son Bond 🎨 Art As Catharsis ✍️ Writing The Self

My Left Foot

His mind was sound, his body locked. A left foot and yellow chalk proved it.

av Christy Brown 1954 184 sider

4.05

9 000+ vurderinger

🦽 Physical Disability Memoir 🇮🇪 Irish Autobiography 👩‍👦 Mother-Son Bond 🎨 Art As Catharsis ✍️ Writing The Self

Across the Barricades

av Joan Lingard

She's Protestant. He's Catholic. In 1970s Belfast, loving each other means risking everything.

3.67

2 000+

🍀 The Troubles 💔 Forbidden Romance 💕 First Love 🧓 Protective Mentor 👥 Community Pressure

Oppslukende

Across the Barricades

She's Protestant. He's Catholic. In 1970s Belfast, loving each other means risking everything.

av Joan Lingard 1972 174 sider

3.67

2 000+ vurderinger

🍀 The Troubles 💔 Forbidden Romance 💕 First Love 🧓 Protective Mentor 👥 Community Pressure

The Spinning Heart

av Donal Ryan • 2012

A village in post-crash Ireland speaks: one man's ruin, one father's murder, one child gone.

3.95

11 000+

🍀 Rural Ireland 📉 Post-Crash Ireland 🗣️ Multiple Narrators 🧬 Generational Trauma 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons

The Spinning Heart

A village in post-crash Ireland speaks: one man's ruin, one father's murder, one child gone.

av Donal Ryan 2012 160 sider

3.95

11 000+ vurderinger

🍀 Rural Ireland 📉 Post-Crash Ireland 🗣️ Multiple Narrators 🧬 Generational Trauma 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons

The Boy from the Sea

av Garrett Carr • 2025

A baby washes ashore, a fishing family takes him in, two brothers wrestle over who belongs.

3.79

8 000+

🇮🇪 Irish Family Saga 🎣 Fishing Community ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 👶 Foundling Child 🕯️ Elegiac Tone

The Boy from the Sea

A baby washes ashore, a fishing family takes him in, two brothers wrestle over who belongs.

av Garrett Carr 2025 336 sider

3.79

8 000+ vurderinger

🇮🇪 Irish Family Saga 🎣 Fishing Community ⚔️ Sibling Rivalry 👶 Foundling Child 🕯️ Elegiac Tone

The Elements

av John Boyne

On a remote Irish island, a disgraced woman searches for the truth behind her daughter's drowning.

4.43

26 000+

🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🔄 Cycles Of Abuse 💔 Estranged Parent 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🏝️ Island Isolation

Oppslukende

The Elements

On a remote Irish island, a disgraced woman searches for the truth behind her daughter's drowning.

av John Boyne 2025 496 sider

4.43

26 000+ vurderinger

🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🔄 Cycles Of Abuse 💔 Estranged Parent 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🏝️ Island Isolation

The Rachel Incident

av Caroline O'Donoghue • 2023

An Irish bookshop clerk, her gay flatmate, and the married professor they both desire.

4.06

100 000+

🏛️ University Campus Novel 👯 Platonic Soulmates 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Awakening 🤫 Secret Affair 🇮🇪 2000s Ireland

The Rachel Incident

An Irish bookshop clerk, her gay flatmate, and the married professor they both desire.

av Caroline O'Donoghue 2023 304 sider

4.06

100 000+ vurderinger

🏛️ University Campus Novel 👯 Platonic Soulmates 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Awakening 🤫 Secret Affair 🇮🇪 2000s Ireland

Portrett av kunstneren som ung mann

av James Joyce • 1916

Stephen Dedalus is raised to fear hell, but poetry makes him feel something holier than prayer.

3.64

100 000+

🇮🇪 Catholic Upbringing 🙏 Catholic Guilt 🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🎨 Artistic Awakening 💔 Father Son Strain

Portrett av kunstneren som ung mann

Stephen Dedalus is raised to fear hell, but poetry makes him feel something holier than prayer.

av James Joyce 1916 329 sider

3.64

100 000+ vurderinger

🇮🇪 Catholic Upbringing 🙏 Catholic Guilt 🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🎨 Artistic Awakening 💔 Father Son Strain

The Hunter

av Tana French • 2024

In rural Ireland, a retired cop discovers the teen he mentors is lying to murder detectives.

4.07

74 000+

🖤 Rural Noir 📚 Literary Crime 🏠 Found Family 🔍 Small Town Secrets 👴 Retired Detective

The Hunter

In rural Ireland, a retired cop discovers the teen he mentors is lying to murder detectives.

av Tana French 2024 467 sider

4.07

74 000+ vurderinger

🖤 Rural Noir 📚 Literary Crime 🏠 Found Family 🔍 Small Town Secrets 👴 Retired Detective

The Life and Loves of a He Devil

av Graham Norton • 2014

Diva worship, doomed romance, and drinking off-duty: the passions that built a talk show icon.

3.88

7 000+

🎤 Showbiz Memoir ☘️ Irish Identity 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Experience 🍷 Social Drinking 👑 Pop Culture Icons

The Life and Loves of a He Devil

Diva worship, doomed romance, and drinking off-duty: the passions that built a talk show icon.

av Graham Norton 2014 400 sider

3.88

7 000+ vurderinger

🎤 Showbiz Memoir ☘️ Irish Identity 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Experience 🍷 Social Drinking 👑 Pop Culture Icons

Four Elements

av John O'Donohue • 2010

Four elements, one modern forgetting: a poet restores the conversation between landscape and soul.

4.25

415

🕯️ Celtic Spirituality 🌍 The Four Elements 🤫 Silence And Solitude 🌿 Nature Mysticism ✝️ Christian Mysticism

Four Elements

Four elements, one modern forgetting: a poet restores the conversation between landscape and soul.

av John O'Donohue 2010 192 sider

4.25

415 vurderinger

🕯️ Celtic Spirituality 🌍 The Four Elements 🤫 Silence And Solitude 🌿 Nature Mysticism ✝️ Christian Mysticism

Acts of Desperation

av Megan Nolan • 2021

A young woman meets a distant man and starts trading herself for his sporadic affection.

3.70

41 000+

🖤 Obsessive Love 💔 Toxic Relationship 🕳️ Self-Destruction 🗣️ Confessional ⛓️ Emotional Abuse

Acts of Desperation

A young woman meets a distant man and starts trading herself for his sporadic affection.

av Megan Nolan 2021 288 sider

3.70

41 000+ vurderinger

🖤 Obsessive Love 💔 Toxic Relationship 🕳️ Self-Destruction 🗣️ Confessional ⛓️ Emotional Abuse

It Should Have Been You

av Andrea Mara

One misdirected text. Three hundred neighbours. Then a murder at her exact address.

3.80

38 000+

🏠 Domestic Thriller 👯 Sister Loyalty 🎭 Mistaken Identity 👶 Protective Mother 💔 Secret Affair

Oppslukende

It Should Have Been You

One misdirected text. Three hundred neighbours. Then a murder at her exact address.

av Andrea Mara 2026 386 sider

3.80

38 000+ vurderinger

🏠 Domestic Thriller 👯 Sister Loyalty 🎭 Mistaken Identity 👶 Protective Mother 💔 Secret Affair

The Country Girls

av Edna O'Brien • 1960

A dreamy Irish farm girl moves to Dublin after loss, chasing freedom with her reckless friend.

3.70

9 000+

🌱 Female Coming Of Age 🇮🇪 Mid Century Ireland 👯 Friendship And Rivalry 💋 Sexual Awakening 💔 Older Married Lover

The Country Girls

A dreamy Irish farm girl moves to Dublin after loss, chasing freedom with her reckless friend.

av Edna O'Brien 1960 175 sider

3.70

9 000+ vurderinger

🌱 Female Coming Of Age 🇮🇪 Mid Century Ireland 👯 Friendship And Rivalry 💋 Sexual Awakening 💔 Older Married Lover

Heroic Failure

av Fintan O'Toole • 2018

Brexit wasn't about economics. It was a culture of glorified defeat and shared self-harm.

4.11

2 000+

🗳️ Brexit Analysis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Nationalism 🧠 Political Psychology 🏰 Post-Imperial Studies 🎭 Glorified Failure

Heroic Failure

Brexit wasn't about economics. It was a culture of glorified defeat and shared self-harm.

av Fintan O'Toole 2018 240 sider

4.11

2 000+ vurderinger

🗳️ Brexit Analysis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Nationalism 🧠 Political Psychology 🏰 Post-Imperial Studies 🎭 Glorified Failure

The Keeper

av Tana French

An Irish town hums the killer's name. A retired Chicago detective won't join the chorus.

4.27

24 000+

🍀 Irish Crime Fiction 📖 Literary Mystery 🏘️ Small-Town Crime 🔍 Retired Detective 🫂 Found Family

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The Keeper

An Irish town hums the killer's name. A retired Chicago detective won't join the chorus.

av Tana French 2026 496 sider

4.27

24 000+ vurderinger

🍀 Irish Crime Fiction 📖 Literary Mystery 🏘️ Small-Town Crime 🔍 Retired Detective 🫂 Found Family

Angela's Ashes

av Frank McCourt • 1996

Three dead siblings, a father who drinks the dole, and one boy's plan to reach America.

4.15

600 000+

☘️ Irish Memoir 🍞 Extreme Poverty 🍺 Alcoholic Parent ⛪ Catholic Upbringing 🕯️ Childhood Loss

Angela's Ashes

Three dead siblings, a father who drinks the dole, and one boy's plan to reach America.

av Frank McCourt 1996 452 sider

4.15

600 000+ vurderinger

☘️ Irish Memoir 🍞 Extreme Poverty 🍺 Alcoholic Parent ⛪ Catholic Upbringing 🕯️ Childhood Loss

Faithful Place

av Tana French • 2010

A Dublin detective believed his first love left him. She was murdered on their street.

4.00

100 000+

🕵️ Cold Case Mystery 🏚️ Dysfunctional Family 🤫 Family Secrets 🇮🇪 Working Class Dublin 🌧️ Dublin Noir

Faithful Place

A Dublin detective believed his first love left him. She was murdered on their street.

av Tana French 2010 400 sider

4.00

100 000+ vurderinger

🕵️ Cold Case Mystery 🏚️ Dysfunctional Family 🤫 Family Secrets 🇮🇪 Working Class Dublin 🌧️ Dublin Noir

Bistikket

av Paul Murray • 2023

An Irish family fractures under debt, blackmail, and the weight of a dead brother's ghost.

3.88

100 000+

☘️ Irish Family Saga 🚪 Closeted Sexuality 👯 Teenage Friendship 🪦 Survivors Guilt 💸 Financial Ruin

Bistikket

An Irish family fractures under debt, blackmail, and the weight of a dead brother's ghost.

av Paul Murray 2023 645 sider

3.88

100 000+ vurderinger

☘️ Irish Family Saga 🚪 Closeted Sexuality 👯 Teenage Friendship 🪦 Survivors Guilt 💸 Financial Ruin

Dracul

av Dacre Stoker • 2018

Before he wrote Dracula, Bram Stoker was saved by a nanny who slept in earth.

4.14

19 000+

🏚️ Irish Gothic 📜 Epistolary Horror 🩸 Tragic Vampire 🤝 Immortal Pact 🧬 Cursed Bloodline

Dracul

Before he wrote Dracula, Bram Stoker was saved by a nanny who slept in earth.

av Dacre Stoker 2018 497 sider

4.14

19 000+ vurderinger

🏚️ Irish Gothic 📜 Epistolary Horror 🩸 Tragic Vampire 🤝 Immortal Pact 🧬 Cursed Bloodline

The Women on Platform Two

av Laura Anthony • 2025

A Dublin nurse, fleeing a fight about motherhood, meets a stranger with a photograph from 1971.

4.41

31 000+

📖 Dual Timeline Narrative 🖤 Domestic Abuse Survival 💪 Female Solidarity ⚖️ Reproductive Rights 🌱 Quiet Resilience

The Women on Platform Two

A Dublin nurse, fleeing a fight about motherhood, meets a stranger with a photograph from 1971.

av Laura Anthony 2025 336 sider

4.41

31 000+ vurderinger

📖 Dual Timeline Narrative 🖤 Domestic Abuse Survival 💪 Female Solidarity ⚖️ Reproductive Rights 🌱 Quiet Resilience

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