The Newton Letter
10 best books like The Newton Letter (John Banville): Girl, 20, Fools of Fortune, Worstward Ho, The Three Button Trick and Other Stories, That They May Face The Rising Sun, Ormond, The House of Doctor Dee, The Talk of the Town, A World of Love, The Real Charlotte
| Author | Kingsley Amis |
| ISBN | 0671671200 |
Flower power packs a powerful topsy-turvy punch on nearly everybody in the late 1960s, even a renowned 54-year old symphony orchestra conductor in London.
This is one Kingsley Amis novel I found to be highly engaging, entertaining and, such a pleasant surprise, actually funny –...
| Author | William Trevor |
| ISBN | 0143039628 |
Penguin Classics is proud to welcome William Trevor—"Ireland’s answer to Chekhov" (The Boston Globe) and "one of the best writers of our era" (The Washington Post)—to our distinguished list of literary masters. In this award-winning novel, an informer’s body is found on the estate of a wealthy...
| Author | Samuel Beckett |
| ISBN | 0394532309 |
Beckett's second last prose text, Worstward Ho, is a novella written in 1983, shortly after the largely autobiographical Company and an ironic theological speculation, both previously published as the first two parts of a late trilogy of short novels. The concentration of language and precision...
The Three Button Trick and Other Stories
| Author | Nicola Barker |
| ISBN | 0060933747 |
Nicola Barker weaves humor and tragedy through this fresh and original collection, as her characters struggle to find love, independence, and fulfillment in this new addition to the Ecco Art of the Story series
Nicola Barker's collection of her nineteen most brilliant stories exemplifies...
| Author | John McGahern |
| ISBN | 0571212212 |
Widely considered to be the finest Irish writer of fiction at work today, John McGahern gives us a new novel that, with insight, humor, and deep sympathy, brings to vivid life the world and the people of a contemporary Irish village.
It is a village flirting with the more sophisticated trappings...
| Author | Maria Edgeworth |
| ISBN | 0140436448 |
A great early nineteenth-century episodic novel of an orphan boy's rise to the upper classes, in the tradition of Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews et al. The eponymous Harry Ormand is raised side-by-side with the son of the local lord, Sir Ulick O'Shane; his low-birth, however, keeps him from developing the...
| Author | Peter Ackroyd |
| ISBN | 0140171177 |
I’ll begin with a recommendation and warning: after reading the majority of this book in an evening, I had extremely vivid and unsettling dreams that were clearly inspired by it. There is very little fiction that genuinely manages to capture the feeling of dreaming, so this is a rare example to list...
| Author | Ardal O'Hanlon |
| ISBN | 0340693088 |
So young Dougal from Father Ted has gone and written a book now has he? Well lets see, what's it all about then?
Patrick Scully, the wee bollox, is living life at large up above in Dublin and is trying to make his own way in the world. A typical story you might think a young man finding his feet, making...
| Author | Elizabeth Bowen |
| ISBN | 1400031052 |
In A World of Love, an uneasy group of relations are living under one roof at Montefort, a decaying manor in the Irish countryside. When twenty-year-old Jane finds in the attic a packet of love letters written years ago by Guy, her mother’s one-time fiance who died in World War I, the discovery has explosive...
| Author | Edith Anna Oenone Somerville |
| ISBN | 1879941465 |
Voor wie al eens graag een Victoriaanse roman achterover slaat, is dit een echte aanrader. Een boek geschreven door twee vrouwen (net Vrouwendag geweest, dus dat moest ik wel vermelden) dat uitblinkt in schitterende karaktertekeningen. Het boek begint erg humoristisch, waarbij de kleine kantjes...
| Author | James Stephens |
| ISBN | 1582870225 |
"The Charwoman's Daughter is the strange wistful story of sixteen-year-old Mary, the only child of her fiercely protective, widowed mother.... Mary and her mother live in a one-room tenement flat that is home to the rituals of their bitter love. By day her mother cleans the houses of the Dublin rich,...
| Author | James Plunkett |
| ISBN | 0815969090 |
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| Author | Eilís Dillon |
| ISBN | 0905169964 |
I liked this a lot: it's beautifully written and well observed.
However, the writing style is very odd to an early twenty-first century reader. We've got used to reading a third person limited point of view in contemporary fiction: i.e. third person that's very close to first person -- we're...
| Author | Edna O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0686408233 |
There I was, feeling the beginnings of a mid-life crisis starting to emerge. . . contemplating the merits of a navel piercing. . . or worse. . . when, suddenly, I spotted a black and white book cover featuring a snarky gal with a cigarette dangling from her mouth. A definite look of devil-may-care sitting...
Sick Heart River is John Buchan's most powerful novel and his last, completed days before his death. It was published posthumously in 1941. Buchan's rich descriptions of the rugged Canadian Northwest Territories are influenced by his real-life voyage down the Mackenzie River in 1937. At that time,...
| Author | Anthony Burgess |
| ISBN | 1843914166 |
This fascinating early work by Anthony Burgess is a delightful fantasy, blending classical myth and farce. Displaying a high degree of verbal ingenuity and intelligence, Burgess effortlessly plays with ideas to create a riotous comedy that is ultimately a celebration of love and marriage. It is...
