Kevin Barry

Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms in 2007, and its award-winning sequel in 2012, Dark Lies the Island, Kevin Barry has been acclaimed as one of the world's most accomplished and gifted short-story writers. Barry's lyric intensity, the vitality of his comedy, and the darkness of his vision recall the work of masters of the genre like...

The Sunday Times Historical Novel of the YearThe Instant Irish Times BestsellerPicked as a Book of the Year by the Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, Irish Times, Independent, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, TLS, Scotsman, The Times and EconomistAn i-Paper and Sunday Times book to read this summer 'An absolute belter of a book' — Anne Enright He was ready to die...

'One of the best collections you'll read this year' Sunday Times 'Wild, witty stories . . . Exhilarating' Observer In this rapturous story collection, we encounter a ragbag of west of Ireland characters, many on the cusp between love and catastrophe, heartbreak and epiphany, resignation and hope. These stories affirm Kevin Barry as one of the world's most accomplished and...

John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip. A novel of family, ghosts, love, music and the quest for truth, Beatlebone recounts a wild journey through the west of Ireland in 1978. At its helm is John, a maddened genius fleeing fame and seeking peace. With his deadpan Irish driver,...

It's late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras, and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone missing, their world has come asunder - can it be put together again? Night Boat to Tangier unfolds a tale of heartbreak, misadventure, and a quest for redemption as...

The instant Irish Times bestseller A Guardian book to look out for in 2024 A New Statesman fiction highlight of 2024 An Observer fiction to look out for in 2024 An Irish Times fiction to look out for in 2024 What if we ride out tonight? What if we ride out and never once look back? October, 1891. Butte, Montana....

Butte, Montana, October 1891, and a hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and balladmaker of the town, but also a doper, a drinker, and a fearsome degenerate. Just as he...