The Troubles Starter Bundle: four essential books

This Troubles book set brings together four starter books on the Northern Ireland conflict, chosen by Mr Books so that between them they cover it from four directions. You can read them in any order.

Making Sense of the Troubles by David McKittrick and David McVea is a single volume history of the conflict, here in its revised and updated edition. Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe centres on the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville by the IRA and what followed for her family.

Voices from the Grave by Ed Moloney tells the war as two men lived it, in their own words. Bandit Country by Toby Harnden is a history of the Provisional IRA in South Armagh, the border area its South Armagh Brigade operated in.

If you want to understand the Troubles and don't know where to begin, these Troubles starter books give you a history, an investigation, first hand accounts and a close study of one place.