Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme

7 best books like Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Frank McGuinness): Five ​Dark Fates, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Lady Oracle, Reading in the Dark, North, The Weir, The Dead Ground

Five ​Dark Fates
AuthorKendare Blake
ISBN0062686178
After the battle with Katharine, the rebellion lies in tatters. Jules’s legion curse has been unbound, leaving her out of her mind and unfit to rule. Arsinoe must find a cure, even as the responsibility of stopping the ravaging mist rests heavy on her shoulders, and her shoulders alone. Mirabella...
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
AuthorJeanette Winterson
Alternate cover edition for 9780802135162

This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.

At sixteen, Jeanette decides to...
Lady Oracle
AuthorMargaret Atwood
ISBN0385491085
Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber.  She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto,...
AuthorSeamus Deane
ISBN0375700234
A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize
Winner of the Irish Times Fiction Award and International Award

Hugely acclaimed in Great Britain, where it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and short-listed for the Booker, Seamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing...
AuthorSeamus Heaney
In North Seamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people, history and landscape. Here the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, and the idea of the north allows the poet to contemplate...
AuthorConor McPherson
ISBN1854596438
Theater magic! I wanted to see the much praised recent New York production but couldn't make it. Though reading a play is a shadow of a live performance, the power of fine plays comes through nonetheless. This is certainly the case with The Weir. Five people in a remote Irish pub, each with his or her longings,...
The Dead Ground
AuthorClaire McGowan
ISBN1472204379
A stolen baby. A murdered woman. A decades-old atrocity. Something connects them all.

A month before Christmas, and Ballyterrin on the Irish border lies under a thick pall of snow. When a newborn baby goes missing from hospital, it's all too close to home for forensic psychologist Paula Maguire,...
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