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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Star Called Henry
Roddy Doyle · 352 pages
Doyle at his best- his portrait of turn-of-the-century Dublin's dark side is masterful. There is a Dickensian richness to language and character' The TimesBorn in the Dublin slums of 1901, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing and begging, often cold and always hungry, but a prince of the streets.
Trinity: A Novel of Ireland
Leon Uris · 815 pages
In a novel that spans the years 1840 to 1916, the author explores the origins of the present struggle in Northern Ireland. Annotation. The "terrible beauty" that is Ireland comes alive in this mighty epic that re-creates that Emerald's Isle's fierce struggle for independence. Trinity is a saga of glories and defeats, triumphs and tragedies, lived by a young Catholic rebel and the beautiful and val
The Rebels of Ireland
Edward Rutherfurd · 896 pages
A sweep through the past 4 centuries of Irish history, woven around a family saga. Very readable and credible accounts of the historical events, although some of the fictional characters are a bit far fetched at the end of the tale, to round up the whole thing. It answers a lot of questions about the complexity of "THE IRISH QUESTION", and you can see modern day parallels to recent post-colonial
Boxers
Gene Luen Yang · 328 pages
At Swim, Two Boys
Jamie O'Neill · 609 pages
Set during the year preceding the Easter Uprising of 1916—Ireland’s brave but fractured revolt against British rule—*At Swim, Two Boys* is a tender, tragic love story and a brilliant depiction of people caught in the tide of history. Powerful and artful, and ten years in the writing, it is a masterwork from Jamie O’Neill. Jim Mack is a naïve young scholar and the son of a foolish, aspiring shop
The Dream of the Celt
Mario Vargas Llosa · 400 pages
"In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world--especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon--but when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those committ
Tread Softly on My Dreams
Gretta Curran Browne · 520 pages
The Scottish Prisoner
Diana Gabaldon · 560 pages
The Yellow House
Patricia Falvey · 517 pages
THE YELLOW HOUSE delves into the passion and politics of Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20th Century. Eileen O'Neill's family is torn apart by religious intolerance and secrets from the past. Determined to reclaim her ancestral home and reunite her family, Eileen begins working at the local mill, saving her money and holding fast to her dream. As war is declared on a local and global sca
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Mark T. Sullivan · 460 pages
Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II
Alan Gratz · 309 pages
It's the height of World War II. Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany, lives with his family in Berlin. But Michael, like his parents, is a spy. He joins the Hitler Youth, taking part in their horrific games and book-burning, despising everything they stand for but using his insider knowledge to bring important information back to his parents and the British Secret Ser
The Bronze Bow
Elizabeth George Speare · 255 pages
After witnessing his father's crucifixion by Roman soldiers, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by a single passion: to avenge his father's death by driving the Roman legions from the land of Israel. Consumed by hatred, Daniel joins the brutal raids of an outlaw band living in the hills outside his village. Though his grandmother's death slows his plans by forcing him to move home to care for his sister, h
Bog Child
Siobhan Dowd · 321 pages
DIGGING FOR PEAT in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him--his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what--a little voice come
Winter in Wartime
Jan Terlouw · 197 pages
Jan Terlouw's award-winning novel tells the story of a German-occupied village in Holland living through the Bleakest winter of World War II. Food is scarce: starving refugees wander the countryside: able-bodied young men are sent to labor camps in Germany. Fifteen-year-old Michiel Van Beusekom finds himself burdened with the dangerous task of hiding a wounded English paratrooper under the very e
The Resistance
Katherine Applegate · 141 pages
The Animorphs and Ax have to make the most important decision they've ever had to make: Do they continue to fight the Yeerks in secret, or is it time to let everyone know there is a resistance? That the Animorphs exist. And that Earth does stand a small chance against the invasion. Jake knows that either choice is a major one. Not one that some kid should be responsible for. But he's getting ti
An Irish Doctor in Peace and at War
Patrick Taylor · 416 pages
The Boy Who Dared
Susan Campbell Bartoletti · 192 pages
Day 264. It's morning. Soft gray light slips over the tall redbrick wall. It stretches across the exercise yard and reaches through the high, barred windows. In a cell on the ground floor, the light shifts dark shapes into a small stool, a scrawny table, and a bed made of wooden boards with no mattress or blanket. On that bed, a thin, huddled figure, Helmuth, a boy of seventeen, lies awake. Shiver
Shadow on the Mountain
Margi Preus · 320 pages
In Nazi-occupied Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement, graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier and spy.