Ireland (pronounced [ˈaɪrlənd] ( listen); Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ( listen); Ulster Scots: Airlann or Airlan) is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth. To its east is the larger island of Great Britain, from...
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Ulysses
Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris. One of...
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Castle Rackrent
Castle Rackrent, a short novel by Maria Edgeworth published in 1800, is often regarded as the first historical novel, the first regional novel in English, the first Anglo-Irish novel, the first Big House novel and the first saga novel.
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The Absentee
The Absentee is a novel by Maria Edgeworth, published in 1812 in Tales of Fashionable Life, that expresses the systemic evils of the absentee landlord class of Anglo-Irish and the desperate condition of the Irish peasantry.
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Phineas Finn
Phineas Finn is a novel by Anthony Trollope and the name of its leading character. The novel was first published as a monthly serial from October 1867 to May 1868 in St Paul's Magazine. It is the second of the "Palliser" series of novels. Its sequel...
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Phineas Redux
Phineas Redux is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published in 1873 as a serial in The Graphic. It is the fourth of the "Palliser" series of novels and the sequel to the second book of the series, Phineas Finn.
His beloved wife having died in...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialised in the magazine The Egoist from 1914 to 1915, and published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch, New York. The first English edition...
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The Happy Prince and Other Stories
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories, "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", ...
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- 929582
Trinity
Trinity is a novel by American author Leon Uris, published in 1976 by Doubleday.
The book tells the story of the intertwining lives of the following families: the Larkins and O'Neills, Catholic hill farmers from the fictional town of Ballyutogue in...
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- 1976
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Redemption
Redemption (first published 1995) is a novel by author Leon Uris. It is a sequel to his epic 1976 book, Trinity.
Set mainly in the first half of the twentieth century in the years leading to the Irish Easter Rising, it tells the stories of the Irish...
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- 1995
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At Swim-Two-Birds
At Swim-Two-Birds is a 1939 novel by Irish author Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It is widely considered to be O'Brien's masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction.
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- 1939
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Dubliners
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
The stories were written...
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- 1914
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The Dalkey Archive
The Dalkey Archive is a novel by the Irish writer Flann O'Brien. It is his fifth and final novel, published in 1964, two years before his death. It features a mad scientist, De Selby, who tries to destroy the world by removing all the oxygen from...
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- 1964
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- 15914
The Ginger Man
The Ginger Man is a 1955 novel by J. P. Donleavy.
First published in Paris, the novel is set in Dublin, Ireland, in post-war 1947. Upon its publication, it was banned in the Republic of Ireland and the United States of America for obscenity.
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Valley of the Squinting Windows
Valley of the Squinting Windows is a novel by Brinsley MacNamara (born John Weldon), set in the fictional village of "Garradrimna", County Westmeath, Ireland. The book was originally published under another pseudonym, Oliver Blyth.
While McNamara...
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- 1918
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The Red and the Green
The Red and the Green is a 1965 novel by Iris Murdoch that covers the events leading up to and during the Easter Rebellion in Ireland during World War I. It is written in a different style than Murdoch's other fiction, but like the other novels...
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- 1965
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Borstal Boy
Borstal Boy is an autobiographical 1958 book by Brendan Behan. The story depicts a young, fervently idealistic Behan who loses his naïveté over the three years of his sentence to a juvenile borstal, softening his radical Republican stance and...
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- 1958
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The Glass Lake
The Glass Lake is a novel by Maeve Binchy. Similar to other Binchy novels, this book is set in a rural Irish village in the 1950s, as well as London. It is notable as the last of Binchy's novels to date to be set in the 1950s. The story focuses on...
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- Sep 2, 1994
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The Grave
The Grave is a novel by author James Heneghan.
The setting moves between 1970s Liverpool and 1840s Ireland: a young boy named Thomas Mullen is abandoned in a Liverpool toy store. When he is found, he's put in the foster care system, or Social...
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- Oct 2000
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- 748845
Scarlett
Scarlett is a novel written in 1991 by Alexandra Ripley as a sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. The book debuted on the New York Times bestsellers list, but both critics and fans of the original novel found Ripley's version to be...
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- Sep 1991
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A Star Called Henry
A Star Called Henry (1999) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle. It is Vol. 1 of The Last Roundup series. The second installment of the series, Oh, Play That Thing, was published in 2004.
The novel is set in Ireland in the era of political...
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- 1999
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The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (1996) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, adapted from the 1994 RTÉ/BBC miniseries Family.
The novel tells the struggle and survival of an abused wife named Paula Spencer. It is narrated by the victim. The title...
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- 1996
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At Swim, Two Boys
At Swim, Two Boys (2001) is a novel by Irish writer Jamie O'Neill. The title is a punning allusion to Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds. The book is written in a stream-of-consciousness style, which has led to favourable comparisons to James Joyce....
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- 2001
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Green Shadows, White Whale
Green Shadows, White Whale is a 1992 novel by Ray Bradbury. It gives a fictionalized account of his journey to Ireland in 1953-1954 to write a screen adaptation of the novel Moby-Dick with director John Huston. Bradbury has said he wrote it after...
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- May 1992
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- 7818
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Tara Road
Tara Road is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in September 1999.
It is the story of two women, one from Ireland and one from America, who trade houses without ever having met. They're both looking for an...
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- Aug 28, 1998
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If You Could See Me Now
If You Could See Me Now is Irish writer Cecelia Ahern's third novel, published in November 2005 (UK and Ireland)/ January 2006 (US).
Trapped in a stifling, small town in Ireland, Elizabeth Egan had always been known as a serious woman, never...
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- Nov 2005
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The Riders
The Riders is a novel by Australian author Tim Winton published in 1994. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995.
The Riders tells the story of an Australian man, Fred Scully, and his 6 year old daughter Billie. Scully, as he is known, and...
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- 1994
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How The Irish Saved Civilization
How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe is a non-fiction historical book written by Thomas Cahill.
Cahill argues a case for the Irish people's critical role in...
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- 1995
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Amongst Women
Amongst Women is a novel by the Irish author John McGahern (1934–2006). The novel tells the story of Michael Moran, a bitter, ageing Irish Republican Army (IRA) veteran, and his tyranny over his wife and children, who both love and fear him. It is...
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The Story of Lucy Gault
The Story of Lucy Gault is a novel written by William Trevor in 2002. The book is divided into three sections: the childhood, middle age and older times of the girl, Lucy. The story takes place in Ireland during the transition to the 21st century....
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- 2002
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The Law of Dreams
The Law of Dreams is a historical fiction novel about the Irish potato famine by Canadian author Peter Behrens. Published in 2006 by House of Anansi Press, it was the recipient of that year's Governor General's Award for English language fiction....
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- Aug 22, 2006
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Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories
Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It was released in 1945 and was the author's first book to be published in the United States. It was published by Arkham House in an...
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- 1945
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- 1945
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- 803505
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In a Glass Darkly
In a Glass Darkly is a collection of five short stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1872, the year before his death. The second and third are revised versions of previously published stories, and the fourth and fifth are long enough to...
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- 1872
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- 647273
Cry of Morning
Cry of Morning is a novel by the English-born author, Brian Cleeve. It deals with the economic and cultural transformation that overtook Ireland during the 1960s. It marked a significant shift away from the murder mysteries and spy thrillers for...
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- Nov 15, 1971
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The Dark
The Dark is the second novel by Irish author, John McGahern. It was published in 1965.
The novel is set in Ireland's rural north-west, and it focuses on an adolescent and his emerging sexuality, as seen through the lens of the strained and complex...
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- 1965
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Memoir
Memoir (published in North America as All Will Be Well) is an autobiographical account of the childhood of Irish author John McGahern. It was published in 2005, and the author died in 2006. It recalls, amongst other things, his formative years in...
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- 2005
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The Purcell Papers
The Purcell Papers is a collection of stories by author J. Sheridan LeFanu. It was released in 1975 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,288 copies. It was the author's second collection published by Arkham House. The book does not include all of the...
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- 1975
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The Talk Of The Town
The Talk of the Town is the first novel written by Ardal O'Hanlon, published by Sceptre in 1999. It was renamed Knick Knack Paddy Whack for publication in United States.
The novel is set in 1980s Ireland and is about life in a small Irish town,...
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- Jan 21, 1999
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The Last September
The Last September is a novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen published in 1929, concerning life at the country mansion of Danielstown, Cork during the Irish War of Independence.
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- 1929
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Troubles
Troubles is a 1970 novel by the English author J.G. Farrell. It won the Lost Man Booker Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Troubles concerns the dilapidation of a once grand Irish hotel (the Majestic), in the midst of the political...
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- 1970
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Under the Hawthorn Tree
Under the Hawthorn Tree is a children's historical novel by Marita Conlon-McKenna, the first in her Children of the Famine trilogy set at the time of the Great Famine in Ireland. It was published by the O'Brien Press in May 1990. It was adapted for...
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Blind Love
Blind Love was an unfinished novel by Wilkie Collins, which he left behind on his death in 1889. It was completed by historian and novelist Sir Walter Besant.
Collins's novel had already begun serialization in The Illustrated London News, even...
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- 1890
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- 21305
The Big Fellow
The Big Fellow is a 1937 biography of the famed Irish leader, Michael Collins, by Frank O'Connor.
The Big Fellow covers the period of Collins's life from the Easter Rising in 1916 to his death during the Irish Civil War in 1922. Unlike most...
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- 1937
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Evening Class
Evening Class is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was adapted as the award-winning film Italian for Beginners (2000) by writer-director Lone Scherfig, who failed to formally acknowledge the source, although at the very end of the closing credits is the...
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- Aug 28, 1998
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Irish Gold
Irish Gold is the first of the Nuala Anne McGrail series of mystery novels by Roman Catholic priest and author Father Andrew M. Greeley.
The title "Irish Gold", is referring to the gold allegedly accepted by Roger Casement in order to finance the...
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- 1994
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- Nov 1994
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- 181414
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Irish Mist
Irish Mist is the fourth of the Nuala Anne McGrail series of mystery novels by Roman Catholic priest and author Father Andrew M. Greeley.
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- 1999
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- Mar 1999
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- 181426
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Irish Love
Irish Love is the sixth of the Nuala Anne McGrail series of mystery novels by Roman Catholic priest and author Father Andrew M. Greeley.
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- 2001
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- Jan 2001
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- 181419
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Whitethorn Woods
Whitethorn Woods is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was published in 2006.
The novel is told through the stories of numerous people who are somehow connected to a town in Ireland by the name of Rossmore. The town faces a major dilemma as news surfaces...
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- 2006
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Angel Light
This article is about the novel. For the energy ray, see Troy Hurtubise.
Angel Light is a novel by Roman Catholic priest and author Father Andrew M. Greeley. It is the second of a short series - currently of three.
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- 1995
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- Dec 1995
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- 4395
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Catholics
Catholics is a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore. It was first published in 1972, and was republished with an introduction by Robert Ellsberg and a series of study questions by Loyola Press in 2006.
Most of the action of the novel...
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- 1972
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- 1972
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- 6724
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Light a Penny Candle
Light a Penny Candle (1982) is Maeve Binchy's first novel, which follows two girls growing up in the aftermath of World War II.
London was a very dangerous place to live during World War II and many children were evacuated to Ireland or the United...
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- 1982
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The Isles: A History
The Isles: A History is a narrative history book by Norman Davies.
Similar to the earlier Europe: A History, Davies is not trying to present any new history, but does want to tackle what he sees as historiographical biases in the treatment of the...
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- 1999
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The Gathering
The Gathering (2007) is the fourth novel by Irish author Anne Enright. It won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, eventually chosen unanimously by the jury after having largely been considered an outsider to win the prize. Although it received mostly...
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- May 3, 2007
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The Barracks
The Barracks was the first novel of the Irish author John McGahern (1934-2006). It was critically acclaimed when it was published in 1963, winning the AE Memorial Award from the Arts Council of Ireland and the Macauley Fellowship.
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Circle of Friends
Circle of Friends is a novel written in 1990 by Maeve Binchy. It is set in Dublin, as well as the fictitious town of Knockglen in rural Ireland during the 1950s. The story centres around a group of university students.
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Stephen Hero
Stephen Hero is a posthumously-published autobiographical novel by Irish author James Joyce. Its published form reflects only a portion of an original manuscript, part of which was lost. Many of its ideas were used in composing A Portrait of the...
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- 1944
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John Halifax, Gentleman
John Halifax, Gentleman is a novel by Dinah Craik, first published in 1856. The novel was adapted for television by the BBC in 1974.
The action is centred in the town of Tewkesbury, scarcely disguised by the fictional name Norton Bury, in...
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- 1856
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The Macdermots of Ballycloran
The Macdermots of Ballycloran is a novel by Anthony Trollope. It was Trollope's first published novel, which he began in September 1843 and completed by June 1845. However, it was not published until 1847. The novel was "an abysmal failure with the...
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- 1847
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Switchers
Switchers is the first book of the Switchers Trilogy by Kate Thompson. Originally published in Ireland in 1994, it was first published in Great Britain by The Bodley Head in 1997. It introduces Tess and Kevin, the two main characters of the series....
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- 1997
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- 1994
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- 33227
Wild Blood
Wild Blood (1999) is a fantasy novel by Kate Thompson. It concludes the stories of Tess, a young Irish shapeshifter (or "Switcher", as they are called in the novel), and Kevin, a former Switcher. It also introduces several other characters, such as...
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- 1999
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- 1999
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